The 19-1 vote in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee-backed bill identifies $4.5 billion worth of water-related infrastructure projects.
Calif. State Water Board to initiate rulemaking on drinking water fees
The draft regulations are aimed at increasing total funding for the state’s Drinking Water Program and providing the State Water Board more flexibility to address priority drinking water issues.
Colorado’s $825M water project begins serving customers
The Southern Delivery System (SDS), one of the largest water infrastructure projects completed in the U.S. this century, started delivering water to Colorado Springs customers today.
PWT tie up heralds Saudi market push
H2O Innovation is forecasting a drive into the Saudi Arabian desalination chemicals market following its recent deal with provider of specialty chemicals for water and wastewater treatment plants, Chemsbro, whose main customers include the Water and Electricity Ministry of Saudi Arabia, National Water Company, and the Saudi Industrial Property Authority.
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Rewards
How many people ever get to say: “Revenue for the quarter was $50.6 billion, which was within our guidance range.” The CEOs of a handful of oil companies, the CEOs of Wal-Mart, Samsung, Toyota and, until recently, VW and Warren Buffett – and that’s about it. But these particular words reflectd disappointment – Q1 2015 …
Room temperature solder uses an odd state of matter
US researchers have used under-cooled liquid metal – liquid below its freezing point – for soldering wires together at room-temperature. The project started in Iowa State University as a search for a way to stop liquid metal from returning to a solid below the metal’s melting point. Lead by Martin Thuo (below), the research team …
Manufacturer invests in specialist high voltage production
AWS Electronics has added a high voltage production capability to its plant in Newcastle Under Lyme. The electronics manufacturing services company, which is investing £30k in the facility, now has a manufacturing space purely for work that requires up to 50kV; high currents of up to 180A can also be accommodated. The most likely customers for the high voltage …
CambridgeIC wins Queen’s Award
CambridgeIC has won the Queen’s Award for International Trade for growth in international sales over the last three years, which have increased by 120%. Here is Electronics Weekly’s list of winners The firm makes ICs for inductive angle and position sensing. “We are delighted and honoured to receive this award in recognition of our overseas …
Optimism over Q2
The semiconductor industry is beginning to accept that Q2 will be a good quarter. ST sees a possible 5.5% revenue increase in Q2 and UMC has forecast a 5% increase. According to Digitimes UMC sees utilisation riding to 87/89% in Q2 from 82% in Q1, and ASPs rise 1-2%. “Looking into second-quarter 2016, new product …