The AWS Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance program has been expanded to include the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora , which recently went into general availability . With this update, we are maintaining full HIPAA eligibility for all Amazon RDS database engines. 

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to loan €300 million ($354 million) to Egypt for a desalination plant at Ain Sokhna, reports Egypt Today.

Keppel Seghers Hong Kong and Zhen Hau Engineering have won a contract for a large scale integrated waste management project, to include a desalination plant, in Hong Kong.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to loan $120 million for a desalination project to supply Jaffna Peninsula, Sri Lanka.

The LAPSSET Authority is to build a desalination facility in Lamu County, Kenya, reports Kenya News Agency.

Years ago, I cycled extensively in the USA. The part of my trip I look back most fondly was cycling the Burr Trail through the Grand Staircase-Escalante. As a careful lone long distance cyclist, I stopped in at a wilderness office before I set out, and was given advice by a knowledgeable* local woman – that …

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The title says it all – from MADI, a house whose major components are unfolded to erect it, and which arrives as a pair of flat-pack boxes. The video says it takes three people six hours to put it up, but you have to add at least two machines helping out, and the site appears …

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UV-C LEDs eclipsing the 100-mW level in terms of radiometric power will enable more affordable sterilization systems that can handle flowing water and air.

You can now harden your IoT applications by configuring a back-up action to perform in the event your primary rule action(s) fail. Amazon IoT Rules Engine also attaches the error information to the message payload affected. You can use this feature to ensure that message data is handled in context of the error or routed to a back-up resource. Error Actions may be used to handle a range of user and service error conditions such as insufficiently provisioned downstream services, or unavailability of services.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports running Windows Server containers for production workloads.