If the CPUC approves the settlement agreement as proposed, Cal Water would be authorized to invest $658.8 million in districts throughout California over the three-year period of 2016-2018 in order to continue to provide safe and reliable water to its customers. 

The Castaic Lake Water Agency (CLWA) is the Santa Clarita Valley’s public water wholesaler.

A transcript of the WaterWorld  Weekly Newscast for September 6, 2016.

in the wake of the Sputnik launches of 1957, Russia was supremely confident of her ability to lead the West in the Space Race. 66 years ago, in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 28th 1960, Professor K Ogorodnikov of Leningrad University is quoted as saying: “Of course, scientists in the capitalist world will, to some …

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u-blox, the Swiss wireless and positioning module specialist, will put modules supporting Category M1 (Cat M1) LTE networks on the market in Q4. The first SARA-R4 module developed by u-blox target mobile network operators in the US market. Along with NB-IoT, LTE Cat M1 is part of the new 3GPP Release 13 standard supporting low …

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Insight SIP is releasing the ISP1507 BLE module which measures 8x8x1mm. The module integrates the nRF52832 chip from Nordic Semiconductor (running Bluetooth 4.2) – offering a 32 bits ARM Cortex M4 CPU, 512 kB flash memory, analog and digital peripherals SPI, I2C and GPIO. Combined with its integrated 32 MHz and 32 Khz crystal, RF …

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A secure online marketplace for the buying and selling of small cell wireless basestation installation locations has been set-up by a US-based firm. The small form factor basestations, which can be installed on apartment roofs, shopping centres, are being used by mobile operators to augment their networks in areas of high traffic density. Initially targeting …

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Intel has moved to buy machine vision technology developer Movidius. The attraction to Intel is Movidius capability to add low power vision process to IoT-enabled device and autonomous machines. Movidius has European design centres in Dublin and Romania. Josh Walden, general manager of Intel’s New Technology Group, writes: “The ability to track, navigate, map and …

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Socionext will start volume shipments this month of a single-chip codec which can process decoding, transcoding and encoding of H.264/HVC video and audio signals

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The CEOs of ARM and Softbank have written a gushing joint letter explaining that it is “our collective vision to realize an Information Revolution that brings happiness to everyone.” It contains no facts and ignores all of the problems of their amalgamation. So it may be helpful to point out what the problems are, so …

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