The News Review:

- Pall wins $14.7M contract for water treatment in Philippines
- Water legislation would open door to sweeping shift in NC
- Projects set to tap the ocean for water
- No public threat in tritium leak at Exelon plant

Pall wins $14.7M contract for water treatment in Philippines
Newsday
The project will be the Philippines’ first large-scale membrane filtration plant. It was awarded by a privatized water organization in Metro Manila called Maynilad Water Services Inc. which serves a population of 8. “The Maynilad plant will establish a model for the large-scale application of membrane filtration technology in Southeast Asia” Pall Water Processing president Jeff Seibert said in a statement. “Increased migration to cities places enormous stress on municipal water systems throughout the region and creates an opportunity for Pall to provide systems that can be upgraded as the population increases.

Water legislation would open door to sweeping shift in NC
Charlotte Business Journal
Supreme Court that contends North Carolina takes more than its fair share out of the Catawba. Clodfelter says state policies for water supply can help prevent courthouse conflicts over shared resources. And it could pre-empt the U. Supreme Court from ruling on how the Carolinas share water he adds. “They tend to be disinclined to step in and make the decision themselves if they see the state’s working it out on its own.

Projects set to tap the ocean for water
San Diego Union Tribune
San nofre was attractive because it has an existing system for drawing in and expelling ocean water. Camp Pendleton has enough land at two prospective sites ? 26 to 30 acres ? to build a desalination complex. Bob Yamada the authority’s water resources manager said a desalination plant offers the base several benefits ?one of which would be a core water supply or emergency water supply. ? Camp Pendleton currently depends on groundwater. Yamada said his agency would build an outfall to discharge salty water from the desalination facility and that base officials could use the same pipe to discharge wastewater. Camp Pendleton’s leaders have no official position on the proposal but are discussing it with the San Diego County Water Authority said base spokesman Lt.

No public threat in tritium leak at Exelon plant
Chicago Tribune
TheEPA says exposure to tritium can increase people’s risk ofdeveloping cancer. Hanley said experts at the Dresden Generating Station areworking to determine the source of the leak. He said thecontaminated water had been pumped from the storage containers andwas being processed through the plant’s waste-processing system. Asimilar leak reported at the plant in 2006 also was contained tothe property.
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