Field Technologies News

  1. Climate Change Means Shortfalls In Colorado River Water Deliveries 4/22/2009
    The Colorado River system supplies water to tens of millions of people and millions of acres of farmland, and has never experienced a delivery shortage. But if human-caused climate change continues to make the region drier, scheduled deliveries will be missed 60-90 percent of the time by the middle of this century, according to a pair of climate researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
  2. GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms QuickPanel Remote Telemetry Unit Lowers Life Cycle Costs By Nearly $1M 4/15/2009
    GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, recently announced its QuickPanel Remote Telemetry Unit (RTU) applied solution enabling Water/Wastewater companies to monitor, diagnose and maintain water assets and processes through flexible communication architectures.
  3. Black & Veatch Launches Wastewater Treatment Project In Scotland To Protect Coastal Bay 4/2/2009
    Black & Veatch, a leading global engineering, consulting and construction company, has started work on a new wastewater treatment works (WwTW) that will protect the natural environment by ending discharges of raw sewage into the Cromarty Firth, a sheltered bay on the northeast coast of Scotland.
  4. Mayor Bloomberg Announces Installation Of Automated Water Meter Readers To Help Homeowners And Small Businesses Reduce Water Use And Lower Water Bills 3/25/2009
    Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Department of Environmental Protection Acting Commissioner Steven W. Lawitts and Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication Commissioner Paul J. Cosgrave announced recently that citywide installation of automated water meter reading technology has begun.
  5. Keeping Golf Courses Green When Fresh Water Is Limited 3/24/2009
    Explosive population growth in southern Nevada has placed increasing demands on available water resources.
  6. China Environmental Monitoring Industry Embraces Great Opportunity Under Economic Recession, Says Frost & Sullivan 3/24/2009
    Water pollution issues in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province in late February has driven people's attention to the safety of drinking water again. Besides the absence of efficient supervision on industrial waste emission, insufficient capability of water quality monitoring in the water plant leads to the accident
  7. CULTEC Offers HydroCAD CULTEC Edition Free Of Charge 3/13/2009
    CULTEC is offering its customers a free HydroCAD CULTEC edition. This custom edition allows constructing basic watershed models of up to five nodes, including storage, runoff, and routing calculations for the company’s Contactor, Recharger, HVLV, and Field Drain models.
  8. New Report Highlights Crucial Role Of Water In Development 3/13/2009
    Demand for water has never been as great as it is today, and it will only increase due to population growth and mobility, rising living standards, changes in food consumption, and increased energy production, especially biofuels.
  9. Advances In Aquifer Testing And Data Collection Subject Of NGWA Webinar 3/11/2009
    As part of the 2009 Webinar series offered by the National Ground Water Association, In-Situ Inc.'s Shao-Chih "Ted" Way will present "Pump/Yield Testing Design and Transducer Data Collection" at 11 a.m. ET on April 7.
  10. Another U.S. Patent Issued For Reagent Delivery And Photometric Chlorine Analysis 3/11/2009
    Chlorine analysis has wide commercial applicability, and is useful for testing drinking water, pool and spa water, aquarium water, industrial and environmental water, and for other types of water testing.