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Feb 24, 2020
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Vermeer Corporation Introduces New Line of High-capacity, Truck-mounted Vacuum Excavators
Company to offer product line through minority ownership and distribution partnership with Vacuum X-Traction Products Inc.
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Feb 21, 2020
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British Water Pledges to Improve Gender Equality
British Water has committed to increasing the number of women on its non-executive board and has urged the rest of the industry to follow its lead.
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Feb 20, 2020
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Students Get Information at First Hand
The Max Planck High School in Lahr hosted the 2020 Engineer's Day on February 6, 2020, the tenth time it has taken place. The half-day event gives pupils first-hand insight into and information about careers in engineering. The opening presentation was given by Artur Miller, project engineer at Herrenknecht AG.
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Feb 19, 2020
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Focus on Future Developments at PP XX
One of the topics addressed at Plastic Pipes XX Conference will be “Hydrogen replacing natural gas – is the pipe infrastructure ready?" Such a review is all the more relevant given the development of hydrogen delivery systems particularly within the transport sector.
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Feb 17, 2020
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Putting Purpose Into Practice: Pentair and the Pentair Foundation Contribute Nearly $3 Million to Support Communities Around the World
Pentair PLC, a global water treatment company, and the Pentair Foundation announce their twenty-first consecutive year of giving to strengthen communities around the world, increase access to quality education and provide safe, clean water to people in developing countries.
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Feb 14, 2020
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Tacoma Public Utilities Selects Sensus for Advanced Meter Project
Sensus, a Xylem brand, has been selected by Tacoma Public Utilities (TPU) as the technology provider for its advanced meter project. The publicly-owned utility offers power, water, rail, internet and cable service to downtown Tacoma and the surrounding area.
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Feb 13, 2020
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Sedaru, Inc. is Selected for Nevada Irrigation District Enterprise Asset Management
Sedaru, Inc. announced that Nevada Irrigation District-CA (NID or District) has selected Sedaru for a five-year contract to deliver its real-time, enterprise asset and operational management system for NID’s water distribution, treatment plant, hydropower, recreation, watershed, and fleet facilities.
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Feb 12, 2020
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Sewer Inspection Crawler Wheel Set-ups Poster
You won't get far with the wrong wheels
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Feb 11, 2020
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Golden Beaver Award for Jack Brockway: Major Recognition for Herrenknecht U.S. Manager
Jack Brockway, President of Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems USA, received the prestigious Golden Beaver Award 2020 in Los Angeles on Friday, January 17, 2020. The association of leading representatives of the U.S. construction industry honored Jack Brockway's achievements in outstanding projects and technological advances in mechanized tunnelling with the Service & Supply Award.
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Feb 10, 2020
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Toilet Paper Replace Chemicals
Within the NEREUS project, research is being carried out into various techniques for the recovery of raw materials from domestic wastewater, including cellulose, nutrients, water and energy.
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Feb 07, 2020
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Peers Sought to Build Urban Resilience Platform
A new peer-to-peer platform is helping municipalities and water utilities find reliable innovative solutions to their infrastructure resilience challenges. Isle’s technology consultant Sylvia Schuster explains why managing the effects of climate change requires urban transformation.
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Feb 06, 2020
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Mitsubishi Electric Develops AI-based Aeration Control Technology for Biological Wastewater Treatment
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it has developed aeration control technology to reduce the electric power consumption for supplying air (aeration) to biological reactors^1 which is essential for biological wastewater treatment.
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Feb 05, 2020
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American Water Included in 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index
American Water, the largest publicly-traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company, announced today that it is one of 325 companies across 50 industries included in the 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI).
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Feb 04, 2020
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Cleaning Water with Laser-Drilled Filters: SimConDrill Project Nominated for Green Award
Microplastics enter our wastewater and the environment on a daily basis. Yet wastewater treatment plants struggle to filter out enough of these tiny plastic particles. Fortunately, help is on hand in the form of the SimConDrill research project, which the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has been funding since 2019.
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Feb 03, 2020
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UKWIR Failure Database Success for Servelec Technologies
A review of UKWIR’s National Failure Database for pipe assets is being carried out by Servelec Technologies after the company won its 40th contract with the research organisation. The work will examine the business case for continuing development and support of the NFD, which benchmarks failure rates for water distribution mains and sewers in the UK and Ireland.
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Jan 31, 2020
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Scientists at TU Freiberg Develop Process for Removing Microplastics from Wastewater
Together with partners from industry, the TU Bergakademie Freiberg will develop an innovative solution over the next two years to purify industrial wastewater and remove environmentally harmful microplastics. The process is also to be applied in the municipal sector at a later date.
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Jan 30, 2020
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Digital Tool Helps Utilities Overcome Sludge Pumping Challenges
Sophisticated software developed by BHR Group and launched this month is already helping water utilities analyse their sludge pumping systems and reduce costs.
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Jan 29, 2020
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Utilities Urged to Share Data with Suppliers
By sharing data with wastewater treatment equipment providers, water companies would not only support the design, build and operation of their own plants, they could also reduce costs and drive innovation. WPL’s technical director Andrew Baird explains that by closer collaboration, utilities could get even more from their suppliers.
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Jan 28, 2020
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Download Envirosight's Guide to Qualitative Analysis in Sewer Inspection
It’s tempting to manage by numbers—to track a single metric, like estimated infiltration rate—in hopes of gaining comprehensive insight about sewer condition. But making smart decisions about sewer maintenance often takes a more sophisticated approach.
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Jan 27, 2020
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Ensure Success During Trenchless Rehab
Cured-in-place pipe as a method for trenchless rehabilitation minimizes costs and limits system disruption. But meeting industry standards for CIPP is essential to keeping the surrounding community and your crew safe and ensuring a successful cure.
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Jan 24, 2020
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Robbins unveils Largest Hard Rock TBM in the U.S. at Mill Creek
In December 2019, the City of Dallas, Texas, USA unveiled the largest hard rock TBM ever to bore in the U.S. The 11.6 m (38.1 ft) diameter Robbins Main Beam TBM will excavate the 8 km (5 mi) Mill Creek Drainage Relief tunnel, and its size is not its only distinction. The adaptable machine will change size partway through the bore, to a more compact 9.9 m (32.5 ft).
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Jan 23, 2020
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Suse, Sibylle, Wanda and Käthchen From Baden Set a Fast Pace in Swabia
In five years, four innovative tunnel boring machines from Schwanau in Baden have effortlessly and unerringly built almost 50 kilometers of new tunnels for the Stuttgart–Ulm rail project. Under the professional direction of the contractors, three major key structures of the epoch-making project were built in difficult Swabian ground conditions. The final act in this mission was completed at the Albvorland Tunnel in late October this year by the TBM called WANDA (EPB Shield, diameter 10,820mm).
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Jan 22, 2020
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Grand Rapids, Michigan Keeps the Data Flowing with Sensus
As the Grand River flows, so does the beer in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Nicknamed “Beer City USA,” Grand Rapids boasts more than 80 breweries and a thriving entrepreneurial community. This innovative atmosphere inspires city service leaders to constantly ask, “What more can we do?” For the city on the river that runs into Lake Michigan, the answer aptly begins – but doesn’t end – with water.
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Jan 21, 2020
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Powerful Water Documentary Has Global Premiere
Global water leaders, innovators and activists gathered for the world premiere of Brave Blue World, the powerful documentary that aims to change people’s perception of our most precious – water.
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Jan 20, 2020
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Black & Veatch and NarrativeWave to Jointly Develop Smart Analytics for Europe’s Water Utilities
Sustainable infrastructure company Black & Veatch and NarrativeWave, a California based software as a service analytics (SaaS) company, have signed an agreement to develop smart analytics solutions. The collaboration will accelerate the speed with which Black & Veatch’s European water and wastewater clients can deploy bespoke, smart data analytics tools across their asset base. The jointly developed tools will be deployed via Black & Veatch’s ECO-X digital ecosystem.
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