The smart lighting startup hands over IoT hardware and software to three vendors, with more to follow soon. Gooee-enabled products are expected to hit the market in 2017.

Today we are announcing the SaaS Connectors feature for AWS Mobile Hub. SaaS Connectors make it easy to securely access data in 3rd party enterprise SaaS applications from your mobile apps.

Starting today you can launch t2.medium instances when using Amazon Aurora in addition to the R3 class instances previously available. Using t2.medium instances of Amazon Aurora will be a cost effective option for your smaller workloads like dev/test, still giving you the option to use larger R3 class instances for production deployment.  

You can now use Managed Updates for your single-instance environments in AWS Elastic Beanstalk. With Managed Updates, Elastic Beanstalk automatically updates your environment to the latest version of the underlying platform running your application during specified maintenance windows. Previously, you could only use Managed Updates for Load Balanced, auto scaling environments. To get started, you must enable Managed Updates using the Elastic Beanstalk console, EB CLI, or API.

We are excited to announce new edge locations in the cities of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Berlin, Germany. We have also added a fourth edge location in London, England.  

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess is providing a new reverse osmosis plant to desalinate and demineralise water from the River Nile in Egypt, for fertiliser manufacturer Alexfert.

Senators called the EPA’s WOTUS rule “an economic assault on small businesses, manufacturing and agriculture.”

Gina McCarthy insisted that the nation’s water supply will be protected in the aftermath of a nuclear emergency.

Iran has begun constructing two nuclear power plants, to be co-located with desalination facilities of 200 million m3/d, reports Iranian government news agency, Islamic Republic News Agency.

Hitachi has been selected to run a demonstration project for RemixWater, its integrated seawater desalination and water reuse system, in South Africa.