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GE Intelligent Platforms has released the Proficy for Water InfoCenter, a solution pack that uses the Proficy software platform to help water utilities face their many challenges to make better decisions saving time and money for better service to customers. The Proficy for Water InfoCenter is part of GE’s
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Siemens Water Technologies is providing Hydro Recovery LP with a wastewater treatment system to treat natural gas hydraulic fracturing wastewater (flowback) from Marcellus Shale drilling as well as produced water from operating wells in Tioga and surrounding counties in northeastern Pennsylvania. This flowback and produced water waste treatment system will
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Siemens will supply more than $1 billion in equipment to Saudi Arabia for a combined cycle power plant with seawater desalination facility. The order is one of the largest ever for Siemens Energy in the Middle East. It was placed by a consortium comprising Al Arrab Contracting Company, Saudi Arabia
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Not too worried about the prospects of future water shortages because you live somewhere with healthy aquifers and free-flowing faucets? Then consider this: without adequate supplies of clean, fresh water on a global scale, agriculture — the most water-intensive of industries — will suffer. And if agriculture suffers, so too will the
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In yet another sign that there’s a risky disconnect between real environmental conditions and business perceptions, a new report warns that investors who buy municipal bonds in the US might not be getting the full picture on the water challenges facing public utilities. “The Ripple Effect: Water Risk in
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The planet’s climate dilemma and coming energy crunch are reasons enough to worry, but both might be overshadowed by the state of our water supplies. Four out of every five people today live in areas exposed to “high levels of threat to water security,” an international team of scientists
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Before Rita Colwell’s groundbreaking research in the 1960s, doctors and scientists believed the deadly disease cholera spread via water contaminated by human sewage. However, she discovered something other researchers until then had missed: that the Vibrio cholera bacterium could latch onto zooplankton — microscopic organisms — in water and survive, essentially
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It’s an oxymoron, but not an impossible one: “Dry water.” In fact, the powdery version of Earth’s most abundant liquid could potentially hold the key to reversing global warming, harnessing natural gas energy and driving new, more energy-efficient ways to produce food ingredients, medicines and other consumer products.
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An emerging market around the world is seeing more and more government agencies and other organisations compensating people to protect natural water resources. The practice is called payments for watershed services, or PWS. “While PWS may not be the only solution, … in some parts of the world it can be
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Britain’s water industry has seen many improvements in the 20-plus years since it was privatised, but it’s now at a critical moment … because continuing with business as usual has become unsustainable. While drinking water standards and services have improved, the industry’s debt has ballooned from £0 to
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What’s the best way to reduce your water consumption? You might do better by keeping the lights off, going out to restaurants less, buying fewer cotton t-shirts and cutting back on how much bread and pasta you eat than by shutting off the tap while you brush your teeth.
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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which for a decade now has gathered information on what businesses are doing to reduce their impacts on climate change, is now launching into new territory with a Water Disclosure initiative. The organisation this month has begun sending out water-focused questionnaires to 302 of the