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Children in Greater Toronto Area Learn About Water Conservation at BASF Kids’ Lab

BASF Canada and Earth Rangers are working together to bring Kids’ Lab, a series of hands-on chemistry workshops developed by BASF for students in grades 4-6, to 30 classrooms across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) this fall. The program will engage 800 students in 2013, at no cost to the schools or participants.

10 Oct 2013

VIETWATER Expo & Forum Returns to Ho Chi Minh in October 2013

Widely renowned as the country's No.1 international water, wastewater and industrial wastewater treatment and purification show, VIETWATER 2013 Expo & Forum will return to Ho Chi Minh from 16 to 18 October at the Saigon Exhibition & Convention Centre (SECC).

7 Oct 2013

Applied CleanTech to Present a Study at WATEC 2013

Applied CleanTech, a groundbreaking sewage mining solution provider of recycling systems for wastewater treatment plants, will present a study at the International Water Conference WATEC 2013 on Oct. 22-24 at the Israel Trade Fairs Center in Tel Aviv, showing that over a six-month period of 24/7 operation its sewage recycling system reduced costs by 20 percent and cut the formation of sludge formation by 55 percent in the wastewater treatment plant of one of Israel's northern cities.

5 Oct 2013

Collaborative European Research Project Aims to Tackle Water Concerns

A collaborative European research project that includes researchers from the University of Bristol aims to tackle water concerns by exploring and exploiting the significant and currently insufficiently used potential of open data thanks to funding of €6 million by the European Commission.

3 Oct 2013

GE and memsys Report Successful New Vapor Compressor-Driven Membrane Distillation System for Water Treatment

After 200 hours of continuous operation at a Texas-based commercial disposal well, GE and memsys® clearwater Pte. Ltd. announced success for a new vapor compressor-driven membrane distillation (MD) system. memsys and GE will further discuss the development and use of MD to treat produced water at the ”Water and Energy 2013” conference that takes place in Houston, Texas, on September 25, 2013.

24 Sep 2013

MWRD’s New Nutrient Recovery System at Stickney Water Reclamation Plant to be built by Black & Veatch and Ostara

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) has selected Black & Veatch and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies to design and build a new nutrient recovery system at its Stickney Water Reclamation Plant in Cicero, IL.

16 Sep 2013

Reed Elsevier Announces Winners of 2013 Environmental Challenge

Reed Elsevier, a world-leading provider of professional information solutions, today announced the winners of the 2013 Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge, which supports innovative solutions to improve sustainable access to safe water and sanitation.

5 Sep 2013

Stanford Study Reveals China’s Clean-Water Program Provides Substantial Benefits to People

The brown, smog-filled skies that engulf Beijing have earned China a poor reputation for environmental stewardship. But despite China's dirty skies, a study led by Stanford environmental scientists has found that a government-run clean water program is providing substantial benefit to millions of people in the nation's capital.

5 Sep 2013

KSU Researchers to Study Effect of Climate Change on Central Great Plains Water Systems

An outpouring of research funds is helping a group of Kansas State University researchers study how human activity and climate change affect Central Great Plains water systems.

30 Aug 2013

“An Inquiry into the Water Around Us” Curriculum Wins Science IBI Prize

When science educator Erin Saitta was a graduate student, she was invited to participate in a program in which students from kindergarten to high school age would do inquiry-based science — conducting real research labs without known outcomes, with the emphasis on learning how science works.

30 Aug 2013