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Researcher Suggests Building Dams Without Impacting Climate

Faisal Hossain, a civil engineering professor from Tennessee Tech University, has to made a presentation on how dams influence local climate. He was invited to Washington by the policy makers from the subcommittee on water resources and the environment who were looking forward to studying the need for more adaptability in the construction of large dams.

18 Aug 2011

MoVap Wastewater Treatment Solution Provides New Standard for Mobile Water Treatment

Aquatech, a company engaged in the development of facilities for wastewater treatment, reuse and recycling, declared that its MoVap wastewater treatment solution supplied to Shale Gas has been functioning actively at a field located close to Masontown, Pennsylvania.

18 Aug 2011

Teijin MSABP Wastewater Treatment Technology Saves Energy for Treating Municipal Sewage

Teijin Limited announced today that a pilot project conducted with the Japan Sewage Works Agency (JSWA) over a period of two and a half years has demonstrated the effectiveness of an energy-saving municipal sewage processing system based on Teijin’s Multi-Stage Activated Biological Process (MSABP) wastewater treatment technology.

31 Jul 2011

Cloud Seeding: Reliable, Cost Effective or Unworthy of Scientific Attention?

It has been a long standing debated issue as to whether cloud seeding is reliable and a cost effective form of water management or just simply unworthy of any scientific attention.

20 Jul 2011

Hydro Green Energy Applies for Federal Approval to Operate Seven Hydropower Projects

Hydro Green Energy (HGE), a renewable energy firm that uses patented hydropower technologies, declared that it has shifted its corporate headquarters to Westmont, Illinois from Houston, Texas It also declared that it has commenced procedures to receive federal approval to erect and manage seven hydropower facilities on the Mississippi River.

17 Jun 2011

Kansas City Board of Public Utilities to Buy Power from Bowersock Mills and Power

Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has announced the signing of a 25 year power purchase accord with the Bowersock Mills and Power (BPMC) to buy 7 MW of electricity generated from its proposed hydroelectric power generation facility.

26 May 2011

Voith Hydro to Supply Generators and Turbines for Two Hydro Projects in China

Voith Hydro, a joint venture of Siemens and Voith, declared that it has received two orders from two Chinese utility companies for hydro power projects in China.

25 May 2011

New Tool for Identifying Contaminants in Water

Identifying and quantifying natural and man-made colored dissolved organic matter components is a crucial problem in understanding water quality. This measurement requires the collection of both the fluorescence and absorbance spectra of the sample.

28 Mar 2011

Cavico Hydropower Achieves Tunnel Penetration at Song Giang 2 Hydropower Project

Cavico, a Vietnam-based multi-national company engaged in civil engineering design, infrastructure and construction, declared that its auxiliary company, Cavico Hydropower has pushed through the adit sub-tunnel No.2 and finished building a 138-foot-high surge shaft for the Song Giang 2 Hydropower project.

21 Mar 2011

Ethiopia to Construct Hydropower Dam in Western Benishangul Region

Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, has declared that the country will soon commence the construction of a major dam along River Nile to produce hydro power to augment the electric power production of the country.

16 Mar 2011