California’s San Luis Obispo County board of supervisors has voted to partner with energy firm,
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), to develop one of the company’s desalination plants to supply the
Five Cities and Avila Beach areas.
South Australia Water saves AUD$3 million in electricity costs through analytical tools
South Australia Water has embarked on an ambitious AUD 400 million network upgrade project using new analytical tools from Bentley…
Ultraviolet disinfection tech to help utility Portsmouth Water beat cryptosporidium
British ultraviolet disinfection system provider atg UV Technology has been awarded a contract by Trant Engineering, to supply utility Portsmouth Water with its first installation…
Initiative to protect Minnesota’s drinking water launched by Nature Conservancy
Initiative designed to raise awareness of the importance of the Mississippi River Headwaters area to protect the drinking water supply of more than 1 million Minnesotans.
Calgon Carbon to acquire filtration group for €145.5m
Calgon Carbon is set to acquire the wood-based activated carbon, reactivation and mineral-based filtration media business of CECA…
Carlsbad city ups its supply from desalination on its doorstep
The city council of Carlsbad, California has agreed to sign a 30-year contract with the County
Water Authority to up its annual supply from the giant Carlsbad desalination plant which began
production in December 2015.
Software checks produced water treatment for farm use
Artificial intelligence-based software developed by Water Planet is being used to evaluate the
performance and economics of treating produced water for agricultural reuse in a pilot project
in Wasco, California.
Consolidation? What Consolidation?
The conventional view is that the semiconductor industry is consolidating, but Wally Rhines CEO of Mentor Graphics, told the GSA Forum in Munich this morning that it is not consolidating despite the M&A frenzy of 2015. “Traditionally we’re a de-consolidating industry”, Rhines told the Forum. Rhines pointed out that in 1972 the company with the …
GSA Forum: Semiconductor industry is not consolidating – Rhines
The conventional view is that the semiconductor industry is consolidating, but Wally Rhines CEO of Mentor Graphics, told the GSA Forum in Munich this morning that it is not consolidating despite the M&A frenzy of 2015. “Traditionally we’re a de-consolidating industry”, Rhines told the Forum. Rhines pointed out that in 1972 the company with the …
GSA Forum: Semiconductor industry is not consolidating – Rhines
Low-cost fuel cell dines on urine
UK researchers have created a bacterial fuel cell from low-cost materials that runs on urine. Its characteristics have turned out to be a little mysterious – more of this later. Justification for the low-cost claim comes from using carbon cloth for electrodes, and replacing platinum as a cathode catalyst with a nitrogen-doped aerogel made from …