A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for October 24, 2016. 

Crews are looking to find areas where stormwater is seeping into the wastewater treatment plant from street, parking lot and building roof drains.

These new contracts bring the Corporation’s projects sales backlog to $48.9M.

Well I’ve done some chums some favours with my IoT Committee and my driverless car study and I’ve got some credit in the media for being a go-ahead Minister with his finger on the pulse of the tech industry, Ed tells his diary, now I’ve got to find another area where we can make Britain …

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Decentralized Power Distribution Architectures for Efficient Automotive Designs

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Inland Empire Utilities Agency and Advanced Microgrid Solutions launch first-of-its-kind energy storage project.

Toshiba has expanded its family of automotive power MOSFETs with the TK1R5R04PB – the first device in its new low-resistance D2PAK+ package. While the D2PAK+ has the same footprint as a conventional D2PAK (or TO-263) package, it offers reduced package resistance. This is thanks to a source pin that is much wider near to the …

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SEMI’s September book-to-bill ratio was 1.05. September bookings were $1.60 billion – 8.5% lower than August’s $1.75 billion, and is 3.2% higher than the September 2015 order level of $1.55 billion. September billings were $1.53 billion – 10.2% lower than August’s $1.71 billion, and 2.6% higher than the September 2015 billings level of $1.50 billion. …

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The UK’s manufacturing sector is generally reacting positively to the Brexit referendum. New market figures from the electronics supply chain are better than expected, according to Adam Fletcher, chairman of the Electronic Components Supply Network UK manufacturing generally weakens in August each year as a result of organisational summer holidays. According to Fletcher, while overall …

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Prospects of a significant boost to Europe’s industrial electronics markets comes as the industry prepares to travel to Munich for next month’s Electronica exhibition. Europe’s automotive, health, transport and energy sectors could be in line for a €100bn a year windfall following the introduction of 5G mobile communications services. A study for the European Commission …

Read full article: Europe will have a 5G bonanza