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Nov 15, 2011
News
ENPAR and World Class Water Company, Miahona, Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Develop Water Treatment Markets in the Middle East
Dr. Gene Shelp, President and CEO of ENPAR Technologies Inc. ("ENPAR" or "the Company"), is very pleased to announce that ENPAR has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Miahona (www.miahona.com) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to develop markets for ENPAR’s array of state-of-the-art water treatment technologies in Saudi Arabia and other regions of the Middle East .
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Nov 14, 2011
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Echologics Signs 3-Year Agreement for Leak Detection and Pipe Condition Assessment Services With United Water
Echologics secured a 3-year master services agreement with United Water. The agreement enables any operating division of United Water to readily utilize Echologics leak detection and condition assessment services. United Water is one of the nation's leading water and wastewater utilities, supplying services to approximately seven million people in the continental United States.
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Nov 11, 2011
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EPA Develops New Planning Approach to Improve Water Quality in U.S. Cities
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a commitment to using an integrated planning process to help local governments dealing with difficult financial conditions identify opportunities to achieve clean water by controlling and managing releases of wastewater and stormwater runoff more efficiently and cost effectively.
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Nov 10, 2011
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Slum dwellers should be a priority for water and sanitation investment
Investment in water and sanitation in the rapidly urbanising cities of the developing world is key if we are to avoid uncontrollable poverty and ever worsening slums, says WaterAid in a new report.
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Nov 09, 2011
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KESSEL increases development capacities – State-of-the-art test field built in Lenting
The drainage specialist KESSEL has invested 1.5 million Euros to expand its development centre that has a workforce of 50. "Our company stands for innovation and development. To maintain our high standards and to continuously improve our products, we have invested in a state-of-the-art development centre," said Edgar Thiemt, technical and financial director of the board.
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Nov 08, 2011
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Lou Bencardino and Bencardino Excavating Expand Reach into New Jersey through Work at Institute for Advanced Study
Pa.-based Bencardino Excavating, owned and operated by Lou Bencardino, is set to begin working on the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. The Bucks County excavators will handle a complete site work package for the educational institution including storm, sanitary and water installation.
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Nov 07, 2011
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Freestone Resources, Inc. Announces a Joint Venture to Treat and Recycle Frac Water
Freestone Resources, Inc. announced that it has formed a joint venture with MEA Solutions, LLC to deliver a total solution for water resource management in the oilfield services sector. An integral component of the service includes owning and operating water recycling systems. The joint venture, Freestone Water Solutions, LLC, will utilize specialized, proprietary technology designed to treat and recycle flowback water (frac water that immediately flows back to the surface), as well as produced water for subsequent reuse in the fracking process.
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Nov 07, 2011
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VMT guidance system aids pipejack record for the southern hemisphere
McConnell Dowell Corporation Limited recently announced the successful completion of the Pringle Hill Pipejack which forms part of the construction work on the Northern Pipeline Interconnector project being undertaken by the Northern Network Alliance (NNA) in South East Queensland, Australia. The NNA consists of LinkWater Projects, McConnell Dowell, Abigroup and KBR.
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Nov 04, 2011
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Echologics Signs 3-Year Agreement for Leak Detection and Pipe Condition Assessment Services With United Water
Echologics secured a 3-year master services agreement with United Water. The agreement enables any operating division of United Water to readily utilize Echologics leak detection and condition assessment services. United Water is one of the nation's leading water and wastewater utilities, supplying services to approximately seven million people in the continental United States.
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Nov 03, 2011
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Skanska acquires construction company in Finland
Skanska Finland has signed an agreement for 100 percent of the shares of the construction company Soraset Yhtiöt Oy. Soraset is a civil construction company working with mainly infrastructure projects. It has about 270 employees and last year the net revenue was approximately EUR 100 M. Soraset is headquartered in Kangasala, in the region of Tampere, but is operating in the whole of Finland.
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Nov 02, 2011
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Local currency financing to improve water infrastructure in Dambovita, Romania
With the financial support of the EBRD over 170,000 residents of Romania’s most densely populated county – Dambovita – will gain access to clean water and a modern water supply and wastewater service.
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Oct 27, 2011
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John Holland to Deliver Connors River Dam to Moranbah Pipeline in Central Queensland
John Holland has been selected as the preferred tenderer for the construction of the $400 million proposed Connors River Dam to Moranbah Pipeline in Central Queensland. The project involves the construction of 136 kilometres of large diameter buried pipeline that will carry around 45,000 megalitres of water per annum from the proposed Connors River Dam to the Bowen Basin and surrounding areas. When completed, the project will help meet the increasing water supply reliability and security needs of the region’s booming resources sector.
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Oct 26, 2011
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Afghan SBU flies below Bagram Airfield
Robbins Motorized Small Boring Unit a First in Afghanistan
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Oct 25, 2011
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IDB approves $10 million loan to reduce flooding in Belize City
The money is intended for a project to rehabilitate and improve drainage and urban road networks.
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Oct 24, 2011
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Safety of Pipeline Systems at the Heart of the 7th ptc
Europe's leading Pipeline Technology Conference will be held for the 7th time in 2012. This year the EITEP conference with accompanying exhibition will be focusing on the technological safety of pipeline systems.
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Oct 21, 2011
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AECOM awarded a US$25-million contract for Deep Rock Tunnel Connection project in Indianapolis
AECOM Technology Corporation (NYSE: ACM) announced that it was awarded a US$25-million contract from the City of Indianapolis to provide construction management services for the US$280-million Deep Rock Tunnel Connection (DRTC) and dewatering pump station in Indianapolis.
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Oct 20, 2011
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FlowWorks Launches New Graphic Editing QA/QC Tools for Data Delivery to Water Utilities, Municipalities and Industrial Users
FlowWorks, Inc. announces important new data editing and analysis tools, now included free as part of the FlowWorks web platform. In the words of Timothy Hicks, president of FlowWorks, "The one-stop data management platform has arrived. A complete suite of online Graphic Editing QA/QC Tools, integrated with our recently-released FACE (FlowWorks Advanced Calculation Engine) for real-time data analysis, will make short work of data editing."
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Oct 19, 2011
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AXEO Brumath completes largest pipe lining project in France to date
Near the city of Lille in the north of France four kilometres of sewer drains were rehabilitated. For this purpose UV-light curing pipe liners DN 600 to DN 1200 made by RELINEEUROPE where used. An unprecedented project in France to date.
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Oct 18, 2011
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ADB $200 Million Loan to Upgrade Services in Key Cities of India's Assam State
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending $200 million to improve the water supply and other urban services in Guwahati and Dibrugarh ― two major cities in the Indian state of Assam.
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Oct 17, 2011
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Interactive Parts Section Now On Ditch Witch Website
The Ditch Witch organization recently modified its website to make it easier for customers to get detailed information about genuine Ditch Witch parts they need for their equipment.
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Oct 13, 2011
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Colorado’s Largest Combined Water and Sanitation District Turns to Innovyze to Optimize Decision Making
Innovyze announced that the South Adams County Water and Sanitation District (SACWSD), Colorado, has selected Innovyze’s InfoSewer to support its comprehensive wastewater system improvement projects.
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Oct 12, 2011
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NOAA announces contract to construct National Water Center
NOAA announced the award of a contract to Triune-Beck, Joint Venture V of Dallas to build the new NOAA National Water Center on the campus of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Amid growing economic and societal demands for more integrated and expansive water resources information, the center will integrate and combine the capabilities of multiple federal water partners to expand and improve river and flood forecasting, enhance water resource management, accelerate the application of research to real world uses and provide a single portal for water resources information.
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Oct 11, 2011
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BNDES approves R$ 134.6 million to the Sanitation Company of Paraná
The BNDES approved financing operations to the Sanitation Company of Paraná (Sanepar) of R$ 134.6 million and to the Sanitation Company of Espírito Santo of (CESAN) of R$ 44 million.
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Oct 07, 2011
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Aqua America and PVR Partners Announce Joint Venture Private Water Pipeline in the Marcellus Shale
Aqua America Inc. (NYSE: WTR) and Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. (NYSE: PVR) today announced that certain of their operating subsidiaries have formed a joint venture, Aqua — PVR Water Services, LLC, to construct and operate a private pipeline system to supply fresh water to natural gas producers drilling in the Marcellus Shale in north-central Pennsylvania. The 12-inch diameter steel pipeline will largely parallel the trunkline of PVR’s gathering system in Lycoming County and will share PVR’s existing rights-of-way.
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Oct 06, 2011
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GE Energy Launches New Smallworld Water Office Software Solution for Water Supply and Drainage Networks
GE Energy announced the release of a suite of data models, applications and integration products designed to help water supply and drainage utilities meet their current and future spatial asset management needs.
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