Despite a formidable challenge of low-cost, efficient fluorescent fixtures and tubes, LED-based troffers have of late begun to penetrate the commercial office and industrial market.
Canadian Space Agency to provide components for survey of Earth’s surface waters
Canadian technology to play key role in first-ever survey of this type.
EPA awards $12.7M to assist small drinking water, wastewater systems
Water systems staff will receive training and technical assistance to improve operations and management practices, promote system sustainability, and better protect public health and the environment.
Network management
Schneider Electric’s Aquis 7.0 improves control of water distribution networks and includes accelerated performance, faster load times, extended system log facilities, enhanced find functionality, improved user experience and collaborative engineering enhancements.
Network modeling software
InfoWorks WS Pro from Innovyze offers a full range of simulation capabilities, including dynamic water quality and sediment modeling, turbidity analysis, fire flow assessment, pipe criticality analysis, demand area and leakage analysis, energy use and cost calculations, and auto-calibration of networks.
WaterWorld Weekly Newscast, January 16, 2016
A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for January 16, 2016.
EPA denies claims in Gold King Mine spill
More than $1 billion in claims for losses related to toxic Colorado mine spill denied.
Wireless, battery-powered water monitoring
Trimble’s Telog® 41 Series of wireless, battery-powered sensors for water monitoring applications are Internet of Things (IoT) sensors that use innovative, low-power, Long-Range (LoRa® technology) wireless communications to remotely measure and monitor water, wastewater and groundwater systems including water pressures, flows, levels and rainfall volumes.
Three dead after becoming trapped in Florida wastewater trench
A mixture of hydrogen sulfide and methane gases overcame the workers.
Pipe protection
Folmar™ Pipe Protection from Great Water Tech is a proprietary, silicate-based mineral solution that prevents corrosion, scale, metal leeching, and the formation of disinfection by-products (DBPs) throughout all levels of water infrastructure.