“Light tables” help administer correct doses of light and assist tunable general lighting in rebalancing circadian rhythms, Rensselaer finds.

Linear modules that use CSP LEDs and a clever reflecting chamber can be surface mounted or safely recessed into any building material such as wood surfaces.

You can now provision SSL/TLS certificates from AWS Certificate Manager in nine additional Regions. In addition to US East (N.Virginia), AWS Certificate Manager is now available in US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and South America (Sao Paulo).

A transcript of the WaterWorld  Weekly Newscast for the week of May 16, 2016. 

The new EchoWater Treatment Plant will improve water quality with a nearly 95% reduction in ammonia discharged to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta

The landmark Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project has come a step
closer to reality with Jordan signing a technical cooperation agreement
with the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Agence Française de
Développement.

It’s 9am in California and Eric Hoek is speaking from his car. Fresh from dropping his two pre-schoolers off for the day, the former UCLA engineering professor turned CEO is ready to concentrate on his other ‘babies’ – the two divisions of Water Planet, the water tech company he started with private investment following his involvement in cleaning up the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “I think of myself as having basically four kids right now,” he laughs. “It’s hard work, chasing after them, trying to protect and nurture them as they grow.”

The hard work is paying off. Water Planet has formed a number of strategic alliances with partners such as Air Liquide, Genesys International and Applied Membranes that give it a global reach that belies its small scale. It has two proprietary products, IntelliFlux and PolyCera. Both are gamechangers for the global desalination and water reuse industry. IntelliFlux, originally developed at Water Planet and already at commercial stage, is an artificial intelligence based automation and control technology for filtration systems which effectively enables them to perform at a peak level that would be near impossible to meet consistently under human supervision. Originally developed in Hoek’s labs at UCLA, PolyCera, is a new super-material; a polymer that behaves in many ways like a metal. It combines the lower price of a polymer with the durability and performance of a ceramic membrane. It’s no wonder Hoek is excit

This article first appeared in the issue of Desalination & Water Reuse magazine.

Accelerate H20 has launched a demonstration hub for technologies to reuse
and reclaim water in El Paso, Texas.

The capacity of an existing desalination plant in Barbados will be
expanded by three million gallons, according to local media outlet Nation News.

AWS Config made available several improvements to customers of Config Rules. Customers now receive notifications about changes to tags on resources within minutes, enabling improved accuracy of the required-tags Config Rule. Customers also get a new managed rule that checks if Multi-factor authentication is enabled for IAM users with root credentials, and a new Java sample for this rule is now available in the Config Rules GitHub repository . Additionally, customers can now view their custom annotations for compliant or noncompliant changes on the Config Rules console, and receive finer grained status about rule invocation and evaluation timestamps on the Config Rules detail page.