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...
Trident Water Fulfills First Order With U.S. Department of Defense
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - Trident Water Company, a subsidiary of Breunich Holdings, Inc, announced today that it has fulfilled the largest order of Atmospheric Water Generators for the U.S. Department of Defense, in partnership with Russkap Holdings, LLC and ADS, Inc. Russkap is negotiating several related recurring contracts with the DOD for numerous applications with Trident Water as the manufacturing partner. This contract consisted of the HS Maxim 200 machine that makes up to 200 gallons per da...
Ohio city selects Arcadis to design new water treatment plant
Highlands Ranch, Colo. – The City of Lancaster, Ohio has selected Arcadis to design its new 6 million gallon per day water treatment plant. The plant will replace one of the city’s two water plants in order to upgrade local infrastructure, increase capacity and help strengthen the city’s resilient future. “We have a long-standing relationship with Lancaster,” said Chad Dunn, project manager at Arcadis. “We are thrilled that our partnership with the city now includes designing an up-to-...
National Coalition Pushes for Investment in Aging Water Infrastructure
IRVINE, Calif. – A national coalition of over 200 agricultural organizations and urban and rural water districts urged President-elect Joe Biden and congressional leadership today to address aging Western water infrastructure in any potential infrastructure or economic recovery package. The coalition includes organizations from 15 states that collectively represent $120 billion in agricultural production, nearly one-third of all agricultural production in the country, and tens of millions of...
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