Drainage engineers in London and the Thames Valley are being sent into an Igloo before they can go down a sewer…

 

The Town of Onoway said that the bright color was caused by routine flushing and should not cause concern. 

 

French company SUEZ will acquire GE Water for €3.2 billion…

 

Flint water treatment plant expected by 2019.

 

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The average distance a Google query travels is 2400km, says a new book called Silicon Photonics by Daryl Innis and Roy Rubenstein. It’s a sensational illustration of the fabulous demands being put on data transport. With those demands getting heavier and Moore’s Law limping, how can the networks cope? Optical transport is one answer, and …

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Fab equipment spending will reach a record $46 billion this year, says SEMI. Next year SEMI expects the record to be broken again. These record-busting years are part of three consecutive years of growth (2016, 2017 and 2018), which has not occurred since the mid-1990s. Eleven fabs are expected to spend over $1 billion each …

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Thanks to IC Insights for this one – the top ten pure-play foundries:

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An IoT industrial gateway manufactured by Siemens can now be bought from the store.Arduino.cc, making it available for students and makers. RS Components, which is sole supplier for the Simatic IOT2020, has signed a contract with Arduino.cc, enabling the company to market the industrial gateway product to its primary target audience of students, makers, geeks …

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    Tight supply saw NAND revenues rise 17.8% in Q4 to $12.05 billion says DRAMeXchange.   The shortage is expected to increase NAND prices in Q1 and continue throughout 2017.   Samsung Electronics remained the leading NAND flash vendor with a 37.1% market in Q4, followed by Toshiba with a 18.3% share and Western …

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