Archive for the ‘Water-Filtration’ Category
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
T. Boone Pickens, the proverbial man with a plan, says Obama made the right call by choosing Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff.Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) is a "BIG supporter" of shifting America's energy economy from oil to natural gas. Emanuel has apparently met with Boone on at ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
For the first time in a more than a decade, California plans to reinstate the drought bank. Over 740 million cubic meters of water could change hands next year. In September, the California Department of Water Resources announced the creation of a 2009 Drought Water Bank. The drought water bank ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
The Human Pump
Gunwook Nam, an innovative designer from Seoul, South Korea, recently received one of three awards from San Francisco’s Urban Re:Vision for his innovative "Human Pump" design featured above. The design uses human foot traffic to power a system of pumps that bring fresh drinking water to the surface.
Posted in Industry-News, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Sustainability, Water, Water-Filtration, materials | No Comments »
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
America's aging water infrastructure needs an overhaul desperately.
Liquid Assets, a new documentary film produced by Penn State Public Broadcasting about U.S. water infrastructure, reveals the poort conditionsof the nation's essential infrastructure systems: drinking water, wastewater and storm water. These complex and aging systems, some in the ground for more than 100 ...
Posted in Bioremediation, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Sustainability, Venture Capital, Water, Water-Filtration, green-technology | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Many hedge funds are up to their ass in alligators with worries over the collapsing financial markets and the looming worry that they might be the next domino to fall. Sextant Capital Management is not one of them.
The Toronto, Canada-based firm’s Strategic Global Water Fund Offshore finished up 9.4% in ...
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Between 1990 and 2004, an estimated $41 billion was invested in the water sector. By 2004, nearly half of these investments were either canceled or in distress. As a result, total investment in all countries has fallen substantially since the late 1990s. In addition, investment in middle- and low-income countries ...
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has expanded efforts to combat the spread of microbial contamination in water distribution infrastructure.
Revisions to a major regulatory rule will require systems with positive total coliform E. coli monitoring results to conduct an assessment to identify and correct any sanitary defects. The amendment to drinking ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
China plans to raise the price of water later this year. News of the change sparked a surge in stock prices for water utilities and higher valuations for advanced water technology companies. Here is a snapshot of the latter:
Desalination Technology Overview
Desalination technology costs have fallen by as much as 80% ...
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