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Praj Industries has reported a net profit of Rs 13.67 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2011, a growth of 32 per cent year on year. Income from operations for the biofuels, brewery, process equipment and water and wastewater treatment solutions company grew 73 per cent over the corresponding quarter to Rs 164.71 crore. The EBITDA margin was 9.53 per cent. |
Giving fresh hopes of solving the potable water crisis in Vypeen, the state government has issued administrative sanction to the Vypeen potable water project initiated by the Goshree Islands Development Authority (GIDA).The project will be jointly implemented by GIDA and the Fisheries Department. The cost of the project is estimated at Rs12.5 crore, out of which the state has sanctioned Rs 7.5 crore which is the GIDA‟s share. The remaining amount will be sanctioned under the State Fisheries Water Supply Scheme. |
In an unprecedented move, Larsen and Toubro (L&T), one among the contractors of the Thiruvananthapuram phase of the Japan International Corporation Agency-aided water supply project, has come out with an appeal before the public of the Powdikkonam area to enable them finish the JICA-related work there.L&T placed a flex board along the roadside in this area, seeking the support of the public in order to attend to a leak on the pipeline. As part of the project, two reservoirs have been constructed at Puthukunnu, near Powdikkonam, and pipelines were laid spending crores. | | The 33-km water tunnel project in Maval taluka is the latest pawn on Maharashtra's political chessboard. The project is dear to deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar of NCP, who controls Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC). Pawar has been determined to bring excess water from the Pavana dam to fulfill the increasing needs of the city, inhabited largely by migrant workers who work in the nearby industries.Building the tunnel would mean acquisition of land. The opposition BJP and Shiv Sena, which are against land acquisition, found the situation tailor made to portray the ruling Congress-NCP as anti-farmer. |
After an oil spill hit the coast of Mumbai last year, an IIT-Bombay professor devised a simple, easy-to-use technology to separate oil from sand on the city's beaches using portable equipment. The IIT offered the technology free to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) and the state environment department in October 2010, but it did not get a response. Today, when the city is reeling from another oil spill, the MPCB says it is unaware of the technology. |
In a bid to provide water at affordable rates, better the supply infrastructure and take up wastewater recycling in the city, the Chennai Metrowater is seeking investments. According to Metrowater managing director Dr K Gopal, investments to the tune of Rs 2,000 crore was needed for a source of supply by 2030 as at least 42 local bodies would become part of the Chennai city after its expansion.He said the State was looking at investment possibilities in desalination plants and tertiary treated water from sewage treatment plants. |
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Wachs Water Services, a leading provider of solutions for the management of aging water infrastructure in North America, recently announced that it has been awarded a $9.4-M contract extension to continue supporting the City of Atlanta, Georgia in their efforts to assess, test and survey thousands of valves and fire hydrants throughout their water network. |
| | Pump and valve manufacturer KSB is set to supply 20 pump sets worth several million dollars for one of Mexico's largest infrastructure projects. The KSB pumps involved are the largest submersible motor units in the company's history with a power output of 1,150 kilowatts and a total weight of 15 tons. They are currently under construction at the Halle factory. Each pump can handle 2,000 liters a second at a head of almost 44 meters.KSB hydraulics experts also advised the customer on the construction of the intake structures. | |
| | Lakes, streams and wetlands are not isolated ecosystems, and a Michigan State University professor and her colleagues are pioneering a new field of research to show just how interconnected they are to their surroundings. Patricia Soranno, associate professor of fisheries and wildlife, has netted a $2.2M National Science Foundation grant to gauge land use and climate change's impact on freshwater ecosystems, and in the process, pioneer the research field of landscape limnology. | |
| | The startup of the New Town system signals a serious new entrant into the municipal UF market. This facility, project managed by Bartlett & West, is one of three UF systems ordered from Wigen Water Technologies for the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation to meet the demand for improved drinking water infrastructure which has been driven by the oil boom in the region. A 1.4 MGD system at Mandaree, ND commissioned in July 2011 also uses Toray's UF membrane modules, as will a 1.0 MGD system at Twin Buttes, ND scheduled to start-up in early 2012. | |
| | Envirogen Technologies, Inc. (Envirogen) announced that it has entered the market for treatment of selenium-containing coal mining wastewaters with a portfolio of treatment solutions, highlighted by the company's fluidized bed reactor (FBR) biological treatment systems and augmented, where appropriate, with its High Efficiency Ion Exchange technology.Envirogen FBR technology has features that make it ideally suited for selenium and nitrate treatment in the coal mining industry, and combined with the decades of FBR experience held by the Envirogen team, allows the design and installation of systems with capital, operating and lifecycle costs | |
| | PCI Membranes' high-throughput filtration membranes are at the heart of a compact wastewater treatment plant on Sant' Erasmo island in the Venice lagoon. Engineered by CP Srl, the sidestream bioreactor configuration employed is one of around 100 in the Venice area alone employing advanced filtering technology from PCI Membranes – a business unit of ITT Flow Control.Venice's wastewater treatment network is highly distributed, with many small processing plants handling groups of houses or buildings, or single large installations such as hotels. The plant on Sant' Erasmo is on an even larger scale. | |
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Here's How To Brew Beer Without Water
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Effluent should be recycled back into brewery operations with less reticence than is currently the case. Throughout many parts of the world we encounter areas or entire regions where water is scarce and water quality highly suspect. In these situations beer quality is often compromised and production schedule disrupted. The use of properly treated effluent presents the brewer with a safer option and greater security of supply.
There is little doubt that today, technology exists to cost effectively and sustainably remove all pollutants from brewery effluent streams. And, thereby, we can produce a water quality that is chemically safe for human consumption, as well as having a chemistry that is entirely compliant with even the most stringent of compliance schedules.
The biggest argument for reusing treated effluent is that its chemical quality far exceeds that encountered in most borehole abstraction schemes and in fact is closer to that of water used in hospitals for kidney dialysis. It is not uncommon on the eastern seaboard of the African continent and elsewhere to find borehole water high in the BTEX complex (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene residual mix) infused in the groundwater from leaching diesel pollution, in addition to the frequent presence of elevated nitrate and faecal coliforms that betrays the ingress of percolated domestic sewage.
After all, many large cities in the developing world, with populations in the several millions, do not even have basic sewage treatment and disposal systems or landfill facilities. A large portion of this waste load ends up in the groundwater, making the shallow coastal freshwater aquifers along the African eastern seaboard, for example, very prone to being heavily polluted, chemically and pathogenically. In urban and peri-urban coastal environments, excessive groundwater abstraction results in coning, a process whereby salt water upwells from the underlying denser saline aquifer to dramatically increase sodium and chloride concentrations in the groundwater.
Where water is supplied by the local councils in developing countries, availability can be an issue. Rampant urbanisation often negates any advances made in bulk water supply and distribution. Very commonly, the microbiology can be far from safe and introduces an unknown human health risk to the brewer through the presence of pathogens. Read the complete article in the June Issue of Water Today - The Magazine subscribe
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