DuPont Water Solutions and Waterise Collaborate Toward Sustainable Subsea Desalination
Subsea Process, which Reduces Energy Requirements of Desalination by 40 percent, Requires Durable, Long-Lasting Membranes WILMINGTON, Del. – DuPont (NYSE:DD) today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with Waterise to provide seawater reverse osmosis membranes and expertise to the company’s subsea desalination plants. Subsea reverse osmosis (RO) desalination presents a sustainable and more economical new way to turn seawater to freshwater. As subsea desalination leverage...
Bureau of Reclamation Partners with US Army Corps of Engineers and HeroX to Crowdsource Portable Devices for Field Assessment of Composite Structures
Reclamation to Award $380,000 for Innovative Solutions That Help Move Water Infrastructure into the 21st Century Washington, D.C. -- March 4, 2021 -- The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), the nation’s largest wholesale water supplier, in partnership with US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and HeroX, the leading crowdsourcing platform for solutions to global problems, today announced the crowdsourcing competition “The Imperfection Detection Challenge”. The challenge calls on the global...
DuPont Awarded Grant from Singapore’s National Water Agency to Increase Sustainability of Desalination for Clean Water
Closed Circuit Reverse Osmosis (CCRO) Technology to reduce energy requirements of desalination systems by 15 percent WILMINGTON, Del., March 3, 2021 — DuPont (NYSE:DD) has been awarded a three-year, $1.3 million USD grant from PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency on behalf of National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF) to determine how Closed Circuit Reverse Osmosis (CCRO) technology can be applied to desalination processes to make the purification of seawater more energy efficient,...
Exelon's Aquify Leverages Trimble's Digital Water Technology to Expand its Analytics Services for U.S. Water Utilities
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and CHICAGO - Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Aquify, Exelon Corporation's water analytics service company, today announced that Aquify will leverage Trimble's advanced IoT and remote water monitoring technologies to expand its services for water utilities. The collaboration enables Aquify to make it easier for public and private water utilities to implement digital solutions for improving sustainability, reducing non-revenue water loss and improving infrastructure performance....
ANSI/AWWA C901 Update Heightens Standards For HDPE Water Service Pipes
IRVING, Texas - According to the Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI), the 2020 revision to the AWWA C901 standard provides specifiers and end-users with the best grade of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe for water service pipes. PPI is the major trade association representing the plastic pipe industry. Under this updated standard, HDPE pressure pipes and tubes from ¾ inch through three inches, produced under C901-20 must be manufactured from PE4710 compound and be SDR9 (PC 250). It als...
Contech’s Jellyfish Filter Receives Washington Ecology General Use Level Designation
West Chester, OH (February 18, 2021) – Contech® Engineered Solutions announced today that the Washington State Department of Ecology, under the Technology Acceptance Protocol – Ecology (TAPE), has granted General Use Level Designation (GULD) approvals to the Jellyfish Filter for the following pollutants: Basic (Total Suspended Solids – TSS) Phosphorous Treatment The approval comes after an extensive field study demonstrated that the Jellyfish Filter has successfully met or exceede...
DuPont-Initiated Research Uncovers Key to Maximizing Production of Clean Water; Findings Featured on Cover of “Science”
Image: Enrique Gomez/Penn State and Greg Foss/UT Austin WILMINGTON, Del. —Through funding and leadership of DuPont Water Solutions, researchers recently found that the density of water filtration membranes, even at the atomic scale, can greatly affect how much clean water can be produced with reverse osmosis membranes. The study demonstrated that precise control of density can increase membrane efficiency by 30 to 40 percent resulting in more water filtered with less energy — potentially...
Bureau of Reclamation Partners with NASA Tournament Lab and HeroX to Crowdsource Innovative Solution to Limit Water Loss in Canals
Problem Solvers Needed for Effective, Durable, and Low-Maintenance Solution to Sustain Canals that Serve 30M Customers and 100M Aces of Farmland WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), the nation's largest wholesale water supplier, in partnership with NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) and HeroX, the leading crowdsourcing platform for solutions to global problems, today announced the crowdsourcing competition "Water America's Crops Challenge." The challenge calls on the global commu...
City of Joliet Authorizes Stantec to Perform Preliminary Design of $600-$800M Alternative Water Source Program
Project to provide reliable drinking water to a city where, by 2030, current supply will no longer meet maximum demand JOLIET, IL (January 29, 2021) TSX, NYSE: STN: Stantec has been selected by the City of Joliet, Illinois to lead the preliminary design phase of its Alternative Water Source Program. Joliet, located 30 miles southwest of Chicago, currently sources much of its water from a deep aquifer that will no longer be able to meet maximum day demands by 2030. To address this challen...
Great Lakes Commission and Historic Ford House Team up for Restoration of Lake St. Clair Shoreline and Wildlife Habitats
GROSSE POINTE SHORES, Michigan - Ford House, the historic estate of Edsel and Eleanor Ford, is teaming up with the Great Lakes Commission (GLC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for a project to restore disappearing wildlife habitats along the shoreline of Ford Cove on Lake St. Clair -- part of Michigan’s Great Lakes waterway. Dubbed the Ford Cove Shoreline and Coastal Wetland Restoration Project, the goal is to transform Ford House’s lake shore back to its natural s...
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