Pasteurization Technology Group (PTG), innovator of the only wastewater disinfection process that creates renewable energy, is exhibiting its technology to water-quality and wastewater professionals attending this year's California Water Environment Association (CWEA) annual conference, held in Palm Springs.
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Ford reduced the average amount of water used to make each vehicle by 8.5 percent between 2011 and 2012 – putting the company more than halfway toward its current goal of using an average of just 4 cubic meters per vehicle globally by 2015.
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The University of Chicago and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have signed an agreement to begin exploring a research partnership that would create new water production and purification technologies for deployment in regions of the globe where fresh water resources are scarce.
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OriginOil, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough energy production process for the oil and algae industries, today announced its CLEAN-FRAC™ water treatment system for the oil and gas industry successfully completed its first field testing on produced water at an oil well in Lost Hills near Bakersfield, California.
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With nearly 20 percent of the United States experiencing an extreme drought, the damage from Hurricane Sandy estimated at $65 billion and farmers in Canada's Prairies struggling with the effects of 2011's devastating flooding, the importance of water security in North America is impossible to overstate.
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Redondo Union High School (RUHS) celebrated the dedication of their newly created Ocean-Friendly Garden (OFG) on Thursday, January 31st. RUHS students and faculty participated in a hands-on workshop on sustainable gardening techniques to build and create the garden.
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Increased natural gas production is seen as a crucial step away from the greenhouse gas emissions of coal plants and toward U.S. energy independence. But natural gas wells have problems: Large volumes of deep water, often heavily laden with salts and minerals, flow out along with the gas. That so-called "produced water" must be disposed of, or cleaned.
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CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. announced today that it has developed a methodology to standardize water measurement and management across all of the company’s operations. Starting this year, this methodology will be rolled out to all of the businesses in the countries in which CEMEX operates in order to minimize the company’s water footprint and increase its water efficiency.
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The Best Western Palm Desert could no longer discharge the cooling tower waste water into the Coachella Valley Sewer System due to recently enacted ordnance, banning the discharge of cooling tower water to their sewer system. The ownership approached HydroFlow West to find a cost effective resolution which involved removing the discharge to the sewer and removal of the chemicals required to treat this water for bacteria.
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A recent lecture given by our director George Caamano at the ISRI Safety and Environmental Counseling Convention discussed stormwater chemistry and affordable treatment systems. He stressed that scrap yards are creating their own storm water problems by not running the proper tests on their storm water.
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