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  1. South East Water Selects Samotics To Optimize Asset Performance And Energy Efficiency 3/28/2023

    Samotics, a leading provider of real-time actionable insights to eliminate industrial energy waste and unplanned downtime, has been selected by South East Water to complete a 12-month trial of its SAM4 system. This proof-of-value pilot forms part of South East Water’s proactive maintenance strategy, enabling the delivery of safe and reliable drinking water services to approximately 2.2 million people across the south east of England.

  2. New Alcoa Dike Floodgate To Help Protect Corona Community 3/28/2023

     The Los Angeles District completed the installation of a 19-ton floodgate March 10 on the Alcoa Dike alongside the Temescal Wash in Corona, California.

  3. Groundwater Access Facility To Boost New Solutions To Horn Of Africa Droughts 3/28/2023

    The governments of Ethiopia and of The Netherlands, supported by technical partners including the World Bank Group, the United Nations Development Programme (https://www.UNDP.org/), the United Nations Children Fund, and the Children Investment Funds Foundation, call for the creation of a Groundwater Access Facility (GaFa) to sustainably use millions of cubic kilometers of untapped groundwater reservoirs in the Horn of Africa. 

  4. Michigan PFAS Firefighting Foam Disposal Program Surpasses 60K Gallons Collected 3/28/2023

    The Michigan PFAS Action Response Team (MPART) recently announced that it has collected more than 60,000 gallons of PFAS-containing aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) from fire departments and commercial airports across the state as the $1.6M AFFF pick-up and disposal program enters its fourth year.

  5. Emerson’s New Flushing Ring Design Reduces Maintenance And Improves Differential Pressure Measurement Accuracy 3/28/2023

    Today Emerson introduced the Rosemount 319 Flushing Ring with valve-integrated design, ensuring accurate differential pressure measurement and lower maintenance suitable for a wide range of differential pressure applications.

  6. Corps Removes 144 Tons Of Debris From San Gabriel River 3/28/2023

    In a continuing project to improve the health of the San Gabriel River and reduce risk to the public, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District cleared 144 tons of litter and debris March 6-13 from a stretch of riverbed near Azusa.

  7. BC Compliance News: March 2023 Environmental Regulations 3/28/2023

    The EPA’s recently released “Cumulative Impacts Addendum to EPA Legal Tools to Advance Environmental Justice (EJ Legal Tools)” provides further detail and analysis on the EPA’s legal authority to address cumulative impacts through a range of actions, including permitting, regulations, and grants.

  8. Treatment Plant Timer Cuts Village Hall Energy Use 3/27/2023

    A village hall set in the picturesque Wye Valley area of outstanding natural beauty in Herefordshire, UK, is benefiting from a simple energy-saving adjustment made to its onsite wastewater treatment system.

  9. WEC Projects Secures New Orders From Lucara Diamond 3/27/2023

    Following its successful expansion of the sewage treatment plant at the Lucara Diamond’s Karowe Mine in Botswana, WEC Projects has secured further orders from the client.

  10. Global Innovators Join The Water Council’s BREW 2.0 Program 3/27/2023

    An IoT device to monitor flow and temperature, AI-powered analytics for water utilities, a high-efficiency water from air system, robotic pipeline assessment, a PFAS destruction solution and more are among the global innovations that will be part of The Water Council’s BREW 2.0 Post-Accelerator in 2023.