Starting today, you can create and search relationships across hierarchies in Amazon Cloud Directory by using typed links. With typed links, you can build directories that can be searched across hierarchies more efficiently by filtering your queries based on relationship type. Typed links also enable you to model different types of relationships between objects in different hierarchies and to use relationships to prevent objects from being deleted accidentally.
SWCC to shape up operations as privatisation begins
Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has hired DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) to brush up operational performance across the organisation in preparation for privatisation.
EPA awards $1.15M to South Carolina to protect water quality
Agency partners with the state to help ensure healthy air and water resources.
Suez and Brazil’s Ceara state sign MOU on water reuse
Suez and Compendia de Agua e Esgoto do Ceara, the water utility of Ceara state, in northeastern Brazil, have signed a memorandum of understanding on water reuse, reports Diario de Nordeste.
Western Cape looks to desal, as Eksom issues RFP
Western Cape, South Africa, is to expedite an environmental impact assessment for a mobile desalination plant, as the area is officially declared a disaster zone due to water scarcity.
NY research group publishes online water contaminant database
NYPIRG’s “What’s in my Water?” tool is a searchable public drinking water system contaminant database.
California team develop new system for membrane distillation
Engineers at University of California, Riverside have developed a new carbon nanotube-based heating element that improves the recovery of water from brine in membrane distillation.
EPA postpones Steam Electric Power Plant Effluent Guidelines Rule
Agency proposes to postpone the compliance dates for the more stringent best available technology economically achievable requirements in the 2015 rule for several waste streams.
Government approves investments in wastewater services across Canada
Improvements, upgrades and expansion projects across the country part of $180B investment.
GE Water brings out flexible RO system
GE Water has introduced a new reverse osmosis (RO) system, PROflex, building on its 1000 PRO Series RO system launched more than 10 years ago.