The scholarship is an annual award of $5,000 presented to a graduate level student to assist with the development of professionals interested in service to the water industry.

Zurn is the only company in the plumbing products category to be included in the report.

Two state regulators and a Flint employee will be charge for wrongdoing related to the city’s lead-tainted water crisis.

Calgary’s Bonnybrook Wastewater Treatment Plant has installed the largest Advanced Grit Management® system ever supplied worldwide by Hydro International.

The European Commission has formally charged Google with breaking competition rules over its Android mobile operating system. It is accused of abusing it’s dominant position in Android, forcing manufacturers to favour its own revenue streams. You can read the full EU statement online: “A competitive mobile Internet sector is increasingly important for consumers and businesses in …

European Commission aims Android antitrust charges at Google

The best crack on the opening day of the GSA Executive Forum yesterday was Aart de Geus’ reference to ‘Immensely Optimistic Thinking’ a.k.a. the IoT. de Geus, founder and Co-CEO of Synopsys, pointed out that the typical IoT products used tiny amounts of silicon and said “it is difficult to see how it will fill …

Immensely Optimistic Thinking

I was amazed and horrified when I heard racing cyclists have been cheating by using electric motors to boost their performance. My first thought was, where can you hide an electric motor on a racing bicycle? I was prepared to be technologically amazed – I thought maybe someone had fitted the whole motor into a bicycle bottom …

Cyclists cheat with electric motors

China is looking for self-sufficiency in ICs but lacks a fundamental pre-requisite for growing a chip industry. “China is not encouraging freedom of thought and that’s something you need if you want innovation,” Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics, told this week’s GSA European Executive Forum in Munich. China has a $23 billion government fund …

China Lacks Basic Requirement For IC Industry

“A small version of the graphic will be placed in the top corner of all presentation materials developed by the project.”

Your space mission: Design a logo for NASA to represent In-Space Manufacturing

In what looks like a breakthrough in wearable technology Fraunhofer ISC in Germany has developed a transparent sensor material which can be printed onto textiles. The material will be presented on IDTechEX Europe at booth F16 in the Estrel Berlin on 27 and 28 April 2016. The new sensor technology will be incorporated into a …

Transparent movement sensor printed into clothing