News on Water Supply and Irrigation Systems

Vote keeps Everglades restoration deal alive

2010-03-11T11:30:48Z

<div id="subtitle">Everglades restoration deal is kept alive with contract extension in massive plan to buy land</div><div><p>Florida water managers have approved a contract extension for a bold plan to buy land from the nation's largest cane sugar producer for Everglades restoration.</p><p>The board of the South Florida Water Management District, whic...

Pipeline not the sole option

2010-02-22T12:45:13Z

<div id="subtitle">Authority exploring other means as predictions for Lake Mead remain grim</div><div><p> The Nevada Supreme CourtÕs ruling last week that upheaved multibillion-dollar plans to tap water from rural Nevada for the Las Vegas Valley has thrown into confusion the fate of a project that w...

Calgon Carbon buys water treatment co. Hyde Marine

2010-02-22T12:53:29Z

<div id="subtitle">Calgon Carbon buys ship water treatment system producer Hyde Marine for undisclosed sum</div><div><p>Calgon Carbon Corp., which sells air and water purification services, said Monday it has acquired Hyde Marine Inc., which makes water treatment systems that use ultraviolet light...

Mexico City battles water crisis with taxes, pleas

2010-02-23T01:36:45Z

<div><p>VALLE DE BRAVO, Mexico (Reuters) - Lake Avandaro has long been the emblem of leisure in this wealthy, colonial town west of Mexico City, but the capital sucked it half-dry last spring.</p><p>Ever thirstier, Mexic...

Appreciating UV Water Purifiers

2010-02-23T01:51:26Z

Author: Clifford S. Magno

One of the newest types of water filtration systems is a UV water purifier. These are great substitutes for the other water filtration systems that use carbon and can sometimes put black flecks of the material into your drinking water. They are unique in how they operate, and with everyone trying to go green, these are the wave of the future in the world of water filtration filters.

How UV Water Purifiers Work

UV purifie...

New York's aging infrastructure a costly problem

2010-02-23T07:33:37Z

<div id="subtitle">New York's deteriorating infrastructure could carry hefty price tag over the next 2 decades</div><div><p>Tens of thousands of miles of aging sewer and water treatment systems need extensive repairs and upgrades that could cost New York billions in the next two decades, an expensive undertaking even with the help of federal stimulus funding, according to state officials.&...

PharmaWater Drinking

2009-12-22T13:03:15Z

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2009 file photo, The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority unveiled its new program to educate residents on how to properly to dispose of pharmaceuticals during a news conference at Tingley Beach in Albuquerque, N.M.. The water authority said it wants to be proactive ...

WATER QUALITYÕS NEW THREAT: MEDICINES

2010-02-23T12:38:52Z

<div><p> Las Vegas landed near the top of another worst in the nation list last week, this time for water quality.</p><p>But its not just local water officials who say the dubious distinction was undeserved. A UNLV public health researcher agrees.</p><p>Water managers for y...

Stimulus funds drill wells as Calif water vanishes

2010-02-23T15:06:03Z

<div id="subtitle">As California's underground water vanishes, stimulus funds help drill new wells</div><div><p>The government is spending $40 million in federal stimulus funds to pull water from underground aquifers in drought-stricken California, even as evidence is growing that the well-drilling boom could degrade the quality of water delivered to millions of residents.</p&gt...

California aquifers seen rapidly losing water

2010-02-23T16:05:42Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California's two main river basins and the aquifers beneath its agricultural heartland have lost nearly enough water since 2003 to fill Lake Mead, America's lar...

Drinking fountains are the ideal place to refresh within busy work hours

2010-02-23T18:45:12Z

Author: John

Australia experiences dry weather with light thundershowers during the rainy seasons. Actually it is nothing but drizzling. To ensure filtered water supply to the water seekers of common people, organization and offices are creating drinking outlets and maintaining water dispensers within the offices. The water coolers and water filtration systems are highly in use as employee care is a mandatory step that a co...

ND state engineer given outlet contract power

2010-02-24T05:53:24Z

<div id="subtitle">Chief ND engineer gets green light to contract for $15.3 million Devils Lake outlet upgrade</div><div><p>North Dakota's state Water Commission is moving forward with plans for a $15.3 million upgrade to the system of canals and pipes that drains Devils Lake floodwaters into the Sheyenne River.</p&gt...

Toxic threat

2010-02-24T07:33:40Z

<div id="subtitle">Because of what they eat and excrete, quagga mussels could poison Lake Mead</div><div><p> Anyone who doubts that the quagga mussels in Lake Mead are a critical issue should consider this warning from the experts: If the quaggas are not stopped, they could poison the lake.</p><p>Years before they showed up in Southern Nevada, the little mollusks ...

Layne Christensen buys W.L. Hailey for $15 million

2010-02-24T10:26:15Z

<div id="subtitle">Layne Christensen purchases water infrastructure company W.L. Hailey for $15 million</div><div><p>Drilling and construction services provider Layne Christensen Co. said Tuesday it bought water infrastructure company W.L. Hailey &amp; Co. for $15 million.</p><p...

Budget woes put surveillance plane data out of the picture

2010-02-24T16:44:25Z

<div><p> The secret weapon that has triggered a dramatic reduction in water use in the Las Vegas Valley hasnÕt been the water cops patrolling city streets or bean counters examining water records.</p><p>For the past four years, the credit has been going to the annual flight of a lone airplane, crisscrossing the skies above the valley and snapping detailed photographs of our green lawns and b...

Sri Lanka fines US embassy for illegal water supply: official

2010-02-24T18:05:00Z

<div><p>Sri Lanka's main water utility said Friday it had fined the US embassy in Colombo more than 3,000 dollars for illegally tapping supplies from the national network.</p><p>The National Water Supply and Drainage Board said it found that the supply to US ambassador Clark County residents are about to get hit with yet another rate increase, and this one will recur each year through 2012.</p><p>The Southern Nevada Water Authori...

Water demand drop-off postpones intake work

2010-02-25T07:10:43Z

<div id="subtitle">Pump station part of Ôthird strawÕ project not a pressing need</div><div><p> By Jean Reid Norman, Las Vegas Sun</p><p>Reduced demand for water has allowed the Southern Nevada Water Auth...

THE BUDGET WELL IS DRY

2010-02-25T12:44:44Z

<div id="subtitle">Cloud seeding creates the rain Northern Nevada needs and Southern Nevada wants but...</div><div><p> When Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager Pat Mulroy suggested the agency fund a shuttering Albuquerque water utility planning new program to keep pharmaceuticals out of Rio Grande</div><div><p>New Mexico's largest water utility announced a plan Tuesday aimed at educating the public and keeping pharmaceuticals out of one of the West's most important water ways, the Rio Grande.</p><p&...