The News Review:
- IBM Unveils Smart Technologies Services to Help Combat Mounting …
- World Bank appeals for water investment
- Expert Says Days of ‘Easy Water’ Are ver
- Water woes for Cameron
- Water agency steps up search
- Bay Area deals with water crisis
- A Rising Tide for New Desalinated Water Technologies
IBM Unveils Smart Technologies Services to Help Combat Mounting …
MSNBC
Water Utilities — Enables water providers to make rapid decisions regarding business processes and operational efficiency to maximize their return on investments as well as foresee and quickly respond to contamination issues and emergencies. Water Infrastructure — Provides sensing systems for managing water infrastructure such as levee oversight management and flood control. Water Metering — Improves management of water supply and demand by integrating data between the dozens of stakeholders involved. Provides all stakeholders with consistent real-time information to help them work together to make critical decisions about water supply in a geographic region. Green Sigma for Water (TM) — is a business consulting service that identifies where water is being used measures and monitors usage and creates process improvements to reduce water use. IBM pilots have achieved reductions in water usage of 30%. IBM also announced:Achievements of the.
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World Bank appeals for water investment
The Associated Press
The United Nations says the total cost of replacing aging water supply and sanitation infrastructure in industrial countries could be as high as $200 billion per year. Jamal Saghir director of energy transport and water at the World Bank said there were not significant funds earmarked for water investment in the stimulus packages of the United States and other countries fighting the economic meltdown. He appealed for greater efficiency in water management. “We can do more with the same or even less” he said in an address to a packed auditorium at the World Water Forum a weeklong global conference that is held every three years to issue recommendations on how governments should conserve manage and supply water.
Expert Says Days of ‘Easy Water’ Are ver
Voice of America
We have to realize we are so numerous on this planet. Easy water is over. ” Middle East is potential flashpointThe Middle East according to the U. report is a potential flashpoint – particularly between Israel and its neighbors – because of dwindling water supplies. Turkey the host of the World Water Forum is offering a solution that could help ease those tensions. The Turkish government is proposing to sell water to Israel from its eastern Mediterranean coast.
Water woes for Cameron
St. Joseph News-Press
The city also is working with its chlorine dioxide supplier on its water treatment techniques he added. Residents will be notified of the test results with their next water bill later this month. Customers of the Caldwell County Public Water Supply District No. 2 and Clinton County Public Water Supply District No. 3 also will be notified since Cameron supplies water to both systems. Bill Kemper whose wife died last May from brain tumor complications said he still wonders why city officials kept silent about the water until now.
Water agency steps up search
San Diego Union Tribune
The Department of Water Resources has preliminarily offered just 15 percent of normal deliveries out of Lake roville. For Metropolitan that means receiving 280000 acre-feet instead of the more than 1 million acre-feet the state in total normally delivers. Tim Quinn head of a coalition of water agencies and former Metropolitan executive does not expect the water supply crisis to dissipate for some time. That’s because pumping restrictions to protect fish have diverted about 40 percent of the deliveries that usually move south out of the Sacramento delta. It will take an expensive delta restoration program from improving fish populations to cleaning up toxins before the state can resume normal supplies. Metropolitan officials are ramping up their quest for supplies while preparing its 26 member agencies and 19 million residents for rationing. New water is not be cheap.
Bay Area deals with water crisis
MyFox Tampa Bay
We need lots of rain? said Tampa resident Jim Hudek. But the rainy season is still weeks away and a reservoir that?s gone completely dry is likely to spark more water restrictions. In fact just recently Tampa Bay Water tapped most of its water supply from its 15-billion gallon reservoir. Utility officials say right now it holds enough water for about one days supply. So using alarming language like ?water crisis? is pretty strong and pretty accurate. ?From a water supply perspective: in effect it is empty. The levels in the reservoir have fallen as we?ve used it through this dry fall and winter months and we?re at a point where there is not sufficient water in the reservoir to serve our needs? said Tampa Bay Water General Manager Gerald Seeber.
A Rising Tide for New Desalinated Water Technologies
SYS-CN Media (press release)
According to Lux’s report the demand for desalinated water will foster arising wave of new water treatment technologies all aiming to challengethe incumbent reverse osmosis (R) in desalination’s three market segments– seawater desalination inland brackish water and water recycling. Rdominated the desalination equipment market with a 54% revenue share as of2008 and the relative success of its challengers will vary by marketsegment. “The bottom line is that there are growth opportunities in brackish waterand recycling” said Michael LoCascio a senior analyst at Lux Research andthe report’s lead author. “But R is so entrenched that its variations willdominate for 20 years with new technologies coming to market only throughR hybridization. The report offers the first commercial analysis of emerging water treatmenttechnologies offering strategic insight to corporations utilitiesbulge-bracket banks and early stage investors looking to tap growthopportunities enabled by emerging desalination technologies.