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U.S. Pledges $99M To Tanzania For HIV/AIDS, Malaria Efforts, Farm Loans
(Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:00:00 PDT)
Tanzania will receive $99 million in aid from the U.S. to enhance its efforts to address malaria and HIV/AIDS and provide loans to farmers, Tanzania's Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Bernard Membe said Tuesday, Reuters reports. The U.S. pledged the funding during Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete's
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American Red Cross Responds To Hurricane Gustav
(Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:00:00 PDT)
Hurricane Gustav created a critical need for overnight shelters, food supplies and emotional support. To swiftly respond following Gusta's landfall along the Gulf Coast, the American Red Cross moved disaster relief supplies that were pre-positioned near Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama for hurricane season 2008.
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UGA Leads Effort To Swat Down Major Vegetable Disease
(Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:00:00 PDT)
In the Southeast, thrips are tomato and pepper farmers' No. 1 enemy. The tiny, plant-feeding bugs carry a disease that can devastate their crops. A $1.75 million grant will help experts with the University of Georgia and other universities in the region develop ways to stop the damage.
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Spain: Scientists warn Pyrenees will melt by 2050
(06 Sep 2008 00:00:01 CST)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Leading global warming scientists say the 21 remaining glaciers in the Pyrenees mountains in Europe will melt by the year 2050. The researchers say high mountains are particularly sensitive to climate change and there has been a steady increase in temperature since 1890. Their calculations show that since 1990, a rapid thawing has caused the largest glaciers to shrink by 50 to 60 per cent and the smallest ones have completely disappeared. The glaciers in Spain were ...
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Papua New Guinea: 'Toxic time bomb' awaits Ok Tedi
(05 Sep 2008 00:00:01 CST)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: More attention should be given to a potential environmental disaster in Papua New Guinea near one of the world's largest copper mines, warn some scientists. Melbourne-based river scientist Dr Ian Campbell is concerned about large areas downstream from Papua New Guinea's Ok Tedi mine being affected by acid mine drainage. He presented his concerns at this week's River Symposium in Brisbane. "It's a nightmare waiting to happen, I think," says Campbell, who recently advised ...
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California "Water Bank" in Works Amid Drought
(05 Sep 2008 00:00:01 CST)
Reuters: California's state government is forming a "water bank" to buy water for local water agencies at risk of shortages next year should a current drought persist, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday. Schwarzenegger in June declared the most populous US state to officially be in drought and declared nine counties in its farm-rich Central Valley to be in a state of emergency because water supplies were so low after two years of below-average rainfall. California's water ...
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Peristaltic Technology Delivers Trouble-free Lime Slurry Metering at Three Stage WTW
(Thu, 16 Jul 2008 11:57:41 GMT)
Peristaltic pumps supplied by Watson-Marlow Bredel are delivering trouble-free, 24-hour operation of lime slurry metering at the Blackmoorfoot WTW near Huddersfield.
Serving over 400,000 people, the WTW at Blackmoorfoot was the first full-size, three-stage water treatment works to be built by Yorkshire Water. Pumping around 30Ml of water a day, the three-stage process involves flotation, first-stage filtration and subsequent manganese and chlorine removal in three distinct stages. This has been successful in treating upland Pennine waters and, as a result, water quality throughout the area has improved.
A critical aspect of the water treatment process at Blackmoorfoot is the addition of lime slurry, to control the pH of the water. Water enters the works with a pH of around 6 and is then dosed with ferric sulphate and brought to a pH of 3.5. Lime is then added to aid flocculation at the first stage of filtration - bringing the water to pH 4.2 before more lime is dosed, which brings the level to pH 6.8. At the second stage of filtration before the water leaves the site, further alkaline lime slurry is metered to the supply in order to maintain the required pH level. The lime raises the pH to around 9.2, which assists in the removal of naturally occurring manganese.
According to the Joe Kelly, process engineer at the Blackmoorfoot Works, the peristaltic technology offers distinct advantages over other types of pump. “We've been using the Watson-Marlow Bredel pumps on site for at least seven years and they have truly delivered trouble free operation. This cannot be said of all of the peristaltic pumps we have installed on other sites. We have found that pumps from other well known suppliers are often prone to failure - particularly the inverters and motors. This results in unnecessary downtime and high maintenance costs.”
The process control engineers at Blackmoorfoot WTW use six separate Watson-Marlow Bredel SPX 40 hose pumps to handle the lime dosing. Three of the pumps run 24hr a day and the remaining three pumps are used as duty stand-by units.
With a maximum flow 6000l/h and discharge pressure 16bar, the Watson-Marlow Bredel SPX 40 is part of the company's family of SPX direct-coupled hose pumps. Designed to provide all of the performance, reliability and ease-of-maintenance benefits of bareshaft (long-coupled) designs with the compact advantages of close-coupled pumps, the SPX range is available in sizes ranging from 10mm to 100mm.
Unlike close-coupling, Watson-Marlow Bredel's patented direct-coupled design permits the drive to be removed and replaced without the need to dismantle the pumphead.
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Improving Plant Profitability
(Sat, 11 Jul 2008 10:01:27 GMT)
Optimizing pump life cycle performance provides a path to help reduce plant-operating cost and has the potential to achieve 30% to 70% improvements in energy and maintenance cost, while improving both pump and process reliability. Leveraging more than 150 years in process machinery design, manufacture, and operation, ITT's monitoring and control solutions have one goal - improving plant profitability.
ITT has products and services that target important issues of process uptime, maintenance, and energy costs.
ITT's ProSmart™ systems provide continuous, predictive monitoring for all rotating equipment at an exceptionally low price. With ProSmart, the focus of a predictive maintenance program (PdM) can change from data collection to analysis and improvement activities. In addition, by continuously monitoring plant equipment, ProSmart can proactively warn of on-setting machinery problems.
PumpSmart® pump control systems provide real-time control and protection for centrifugal pumps while also providing valuable process insight. By protecting against unplanned pump failure due to process upsets, PumpSmart can keep plant process running longer and eliminate unplanned repair activities. By right-sizing pumps, PumpSmart can help reduce not only energy consumption, but also wear and tear on a process system.
Reducing Pump Energy Consumption is High Priority for ITT
Energy consumption is a huge concern in every marketplace served by pumps. Because pumps are especially intertwined with water use, lowering energy costs has become a guiding priority for ITT engineers. ITT's new generation of vertical turbine pumps for the residential and commercial water markets vividly illustrates this point. The pump's 2% boost in base efficiency translates into a very significant 10% reduction in lifecycle costs for the customer. The N-pump, designed for wastewater applications, reflects similar synergies, using 20% to 30% less energy and lowering life-long maintenance costs. As energy conservation measures become critical to customer's operations, ITT's smart pumping systems such as the Hydrovar™ frequency inverter control system provide microprocessor control of any centrifugal pump, reducing energy exposure.
The comprehensive lifecycle assessment associated with ITT's focus on reducing pump energy exposure minimizes every aspect of its environmental impact, both internally and at the customer site.
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ITT's Growing Presence in the Asia-Pacific Region
(Mon, 06 Jul 2008 14:45:28 GMT)
ITT is a fast growing presence in the Asia-Pacific region. In China, ITT's water and wastewater pump systems figure prominently in ongoing infrastructure initiatives, such as the Three Gorges Dam and the South-North water diversion project as well as in unique applications like powering the kayak racecourse for the Beijing Olympic games.
The most promising markets for ITT Fluid Technology in China focus on water supply and treatment for infrastructure projects, commercial buildings, and industrial applications like mining. ITT has just opened two world-class manufacturing plants, producing in Shenyang (producing submersible drainage and sewage pumps) and in Nanjing (producing residential ,commercial, and industrial products). Both new facilities incorporate “green” practices, such as water treatment technologies that get as close as possible to total water re-use and zero wastewater discharge.
A new research and development center, also at Nanjing, will be the hub of aggressive efforts to tailor existing and future products to the country's exploding value market. This approach reflects ITT's broadened emphasis on localization.
In India, the government has projected roughly $300 billion worth of infrastructure improvements over the next five to seven years. To help position ITT's product portfolio for this building boom, a new technology center has been opened in Vadodara, in the state of Gujarat. As ITT's first major facility in India, the technology center will assist in developing deep engineering competencies in several core water and other fluid transport technology areas and accelerate ITT's market penetration in south Asia by aligning or localizing the product portfolio. This past fall, ITT's residential and commercial water business opened its first regional office in New Delhi, India. ITT is also building a manufacturing and assembly plant in the Gujarat region.
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- Will water be the oil of tomorrow? - With the water issue making
the headlines of so many newspapers as the Water Summit took place in
Mexico in March, one could have hardly ignored the extent to which the
most precious liquid on earth is becoming scarce. But long before this
summit, the trend hadn't gone unnoticed by executives at Pictet Asset
Management, who from their home base in Geneva - next to packaged water
giant Nestlé and close to Lyon, home of the world's first water
concession in 1853 - decided to launch in 2000 the Water Fund, the
world's first fund completely invested in water-related equities.
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- Agua Caliente by Richard Karn/the Emerging
Trends Report/2006-03-15 The world's burgeoning population is both
overusing and misusing the planet's finite supply of fresh water.
Between aging infrastructure or lack thereof, aquifer drawdown and bad
water policy, agricultural, industrial and human pollution as well as
salination, and accelerating climate change, the world faces a
developing crisis requiring time, concerted effort, and inconceivable
amounts of money to avert.
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Positions Itself to Always Be Part of the Solution – Written by Neil
Berlant, Water Group Managing Director and First Vice President at
The Seidler Companies. Considering how important water is, investing in
the water industry would appear to be an easy way to make money. Alas, it
is not that simple. Nonetheless, the visibility of the industry, in terms
of growth and opportunity, is exceedingly good.
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Water Funds, ETF's and Venture Capital Investing
- Aqua International Partners, LP - a $240M private equity investment fund focused exclusively in the water sector. Aqua International Partners is an affiliated fund of the Texas Pacific Group
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Aqua Terra Asset Management LLC , an affiliated investment advisor
of Boenning & Scattergood, Inc., provides investors a vehicle for
alternative equity investments with a focus on the natural resource
sectors. We believe that natural resources, and in particular water and
water-related investments, provide attractive long-term opportunities.
- ASN Milieu & Water Fund- Dutch
- ATLANTIS WATER FUND, LP Atlantis - a $250 million private equity fund, was launched in 1998 as a joint venture between GEF and Poseldon Resources Corporation, a project-development company focused exclusively on the water sector. The fund seeks to develop and invest in water and wastewater treatment projects in emerging middle-income and upper-income countries. Atlantis is currently seeking new investment opportunities that range up to $37.5 million per transaction.
- Global Water
Equities Portfolio - FIVE MAJOR INFLUENCES
- Global Water Index ETF (AMEX:CGW) The index is comprised of 50
equity securities selected from a universe of companies listed on global
developed market exchanges and based on the relative importance of the
global water industry within those companies' business models
- KBC Eco Water Fund- Belgian
- MFS Water Fund
portfolio will include investments with global water fund managers and direct investment in the securities of water related companies. Positioned to take advantage of the market dynamics, growth prospects and investment opportunities related to the Global Water Sector, the Fund is an Australian dollar denominated fund and will hedge against foreign exchange movements.
- Pictet Funds
- The fund's objective is to invest worldwide in shares of companies
focused on the water related sector.
- PowerShares Global Water Portfolio (AMEX:
PIO)
- based on the Palisades Global Water Index. The index seeks to identify
a group of companies worldwide that focus on the provision of potable
water, the treatment of water and the technology and services that are
directly related to global water consumption.
- PowerShares Water Resources
(PHO)
- The investment seeks
investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield,
before fees and expenses, of the Pallisades Water Index. The fund will
normally invest at least 80% of its assets in ADRs and common stocks of
companies in the water industry. It will normally invest at least 90% of
its assets in common stocks that comprise the Pallisades Water Index.
The index is comprised of 25 stocks of companies that are publicly
traded in the U.S., and focus on the provision of portable water,
treatment of water, and technologies directly related to water
consumption.
- SAM Sustainable
Water Fund - Switzerland . The fund invests worldwide in
companies that provide technology, products or services relating to the
water value chain. At least two-thirds are invested in companies that
attach considerable importance to sustainability.
Summit Water Equity Fund, Manager: John I. Dickerson
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TWF Management Company, LLC - a Registered Investment Advisor, manages The Water Fund, LP. Investing exclusively in the water sector, the fund focuses on water utilities, water technology companies, water infrastructure companies and companies owning water rights as a primary asset. The fund seeks to deliver strong absolute returns in both bull and bear markets with low volatility and a high degree of risk control. The fund's global portfolio favors long and short positions in fundamentally mispriced equity securities, and long positions in companies exhibiting the potential for superior long term growth.
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U.S. Water Equities Portfolio -
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academic backgrounds in aquatic ecology and extensive experience in the
field.
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- Frost & Sullivan - As the dedicated portal of the Water Group
of Frost & Sullivan, we are able to offer you unrivalled experience in
the field of market analysis in all sectors of the global water
industry. Bringing together the experience of our team of analysts
positioned around the world, water.frost.com offers continuous
monitoring of a vast array of technology and service markets within the
water and wastewater sectors.
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- Neil Berlant, First Vice President and Managing Director of the
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- Stephen J. Hoffmann President of WaterTech Capital, a
merchant and investment banking firm that specializes in serving the
myriad of companies that, in aggregate, comprise the water ‘industry’.
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not-for-profit educational and technical organization of 40,000+
water quality experts. Its mission: preserve and enhance the global
water environment. ... analysts, equipment manufacturers &
distributors, and students who work toward the common goal of the
preservation and enhancement of the global water.
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covering global water utilities, and Janney Water Tech (Ticker: ^JWT),
covering water technology and infrastructure stocks, offers a unique
insight into the global water industry.
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