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Joint Project to Promote Responsible Water Management in Guangxi

Stora Enso and Kemira have today announced the launch of a joint project to promote responsible water management and community engagement in Guangxi Province in Southern China.

29 Nov 2013

Georgia Power Announces Dedication of New Water Research Center

Georgia Power today dedicated the new Water Research Center (WRC) at Plant Bowen near Cartersville, Ga. The state-of-the-art center will focus on finding new ways to reduce, conserve and improve the quality of water returned to the environment from power plants.

From Georgia Power Company 20 Nov 2013

Global Water Technologies to Present at 2013 Water Management & Nano Energy Summit

Global Water Technologies will present at the 2013 Water Management & Nano Energy Summit this week at Rice University in Houston.

13 Nov 2013

UCSB Earns National Recognition for Innovative Advances in Water Conservation

Long lauded for its commitment to the environment and all things sustainability, UC Santa Barbara has earned another such accolade: national recognition for its innovative and "remarkable" advances in water conservation.

8 Nov 2013

Clean Air Act Also Reduces Nitrogen Pollution to the Chesapeake Bay

A new study shows that the reduction of pollution emissions from power plants in the mid-Atlantic is making an impact on the quality of the water that ends up in the Chesapeake Bay. The study by scientists at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science confirms that as the amount of emissions of nitrogen oxide from coal-fired power plants declined in response to the Clean Air Act, the amount of nitrogen pollution found in the waterways of forested areas in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia fell as well.

5 Nov 2013

Global Water Technologies to Participate at International Water Week

Global Water Technologies will present at International Water Week in Amsterdam on November 4-6 where 'Integrated water solutions for a green economy' will be the topic for an expected 25,000 water industry professionals.

29 Oct 2013

New Trans-Atlantic Collaboration to Tackle Global Water Problems

A new trans-Atlantic collaboration, 'Clean Water for All', will bring leading water engineers from the United States and the UK together to tackle problems of providing clean, sustainable water supplies.

25 Oct 2013

Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Siemens to Develop Chemical-Based Water Treatment Technology

Siemens Water Technologies and Texas A&M AgriLife Research have signed an exclusive license agreement and a research and development agreement to continue to develop and commercialize a chemical-based technology to more efficiently and cost-effectively remove heavy metals from water and wastewater at power utility, mining, refinery and remediation sites.

24 Oct 2013

NSU, MWC and ARB Partner with Village of Ridgewood to Open New Water Pollution Control Plant

Representatives of the Village of Ridgewood, NJ, Natural Systems Utilities, Middlesex Water Company, and American Refining and Biochemical today celebrated a Grand Opening of the public-private partnership's renewable energy project at the Village's water pollution control plant.

21 Oct 2013

Doped Titanium Dioxide Photocatalyst Activated by Solar Light Can Cheaply Clean Polluted Water

A little amount of appropriately prepared powder is poured in water polluted with phenol and cellulose. A bit of the sun and after fifteen minutes harmful compounds disappear, and the powder can be filtered off and reused. Sounds like a fairy tale? Perhaps, but it is not magic, only a masterly use of chemistry and physics by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

18 Oct 2013