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Membranes Helping to Ensure Quality Drinking Water for 1.5 Million Residents

With one of the world's largest desalination projects under way, Sydney has joined the ranks of other coastal cities in Australia to identify seawater desalination as a sustainable and rainfall-independent route to providing drinking water for its burgeoning metropolitan area.

12 Jun 2008

Mini-IBM Modular Data Centers Deliver Up to 50 Percent Energy Savings

IBM today said it would expand its global efforts to deliver greater energy efficiency to businesses facing skyrocketing energy costs, environmental concerns and corporate sustainability requirements.

12 Jun 2008

Three-Story Structure is Designed to Achieve LEED Certification

The Corky McMillin Companies recently broke ground on a 104,397 square foot Class A office building in the 360-acre Liberty Station mixed-use development. The three-story structure is designed to achieve a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification and is scheduled for completion Summer 2009.

11 Jun 2008

Fuel Savings and Emission Reductions Have Exceeded Expectations

Southwest Airlines signed a multi-year agreement to use the patented, environmentally friendly EcoPower(R) engine wash system offered by Pratt + Whitney Global Service Partners. Pratt + Whitney is a United Technologies Corp. company.

11 Jun 2008

The World's Most Efficient UV Drinking Water Disinfection System

ITT Corporation, a leading provider of systems for treating and transporting water and wastewater, announced today that it has completed a new validation for ITT's WEDECO K Series Ultraviolet (UV) Reactor according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) standards.

11 Jun 2008

Getting the Navy to Use More Nuclear Fuel

ON 12 October 2000, the destroyer USS Cole hove into port at Aden in Yemen for routine refuelling.

11 Jun 2008

UTC Power Receives Innovation Award for Geothermal Energy Production System

The National Energy Resources Organization (NERO) last night presented its 2008 annual Innovation Award to UTC Power for its PureCycle(R) system, an advance in geothermal energy production that taps significant, previously unusable geothermal reserves for domestic, renewable, and continuously available power.

11 Jun 2008