A benchmarking study has been carried out on the bacterial build up on 14 reverse osmosis membranes at the Perth seawater desalination plant…

A buoy with the ability to “phone home” has been deployed in Wellington Harbour today to monitor currents, waves and water quality in the harbour…

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for July 10, 2017.

Xylem has opened an “innovation center” in northern Italy to focus on advancing next-generation pumping technologies…

The interactive map displays project details, dollars invested and streets with planned upgrades.

I can see us having a general election every year till 2020, Ed confides to his diary, we’re leaderless – ministers bully the PM, the PM asks  opposition parties for support,  the government can be voted out anytime, Brexit gets more heated and uncertain, the poltical atmosphere is febrile. But if you can keep your …

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Rambus is looking for a buyer reports Bloomberg. The litigious IP provider is said to have hired a financial adviser to find a buyer. Rambus shares have fallen 20% this year. The company has a market cap of $1.4 billion though, in 2000, it was valued at over $100 million. Rambus was founded in 1990 …

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The wearables segment has taken a hit with the demise of Jawbone which raised $900 million. Jawbone made wearable devices tracking exercise and health data but never got any significant market share – staying below 5%. The cream of Silicon Valley’s VCs – Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins invested in the company. …

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Imagination risks action from investors and regulators after Apple revealed that it told Imagination in 2015 that it was going to drop Imagination’s GPUs in favour of in-house designed Apple GPUs. Imagination did not make the news public until April 2017 when Imagination’s shares fell 70%, business units were put up for sale and, eventually, …

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It costs a lot to die in Japan – a Tokyo burial plot will set you back $20k but, if you’re  prepared to go to an automated cemetery, you can buy urn space for $9k or a mini-urn space for $5k. This is convenient for the Japanese who believe in regularly visiting dead relatives even …

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