With drought comes water shortages which warrant a heightened level of water conservation. The American Water Works Association says there are four stages of drought each with varying levels of water shortages and appropriate responses. Drought Watches typically result in 5 to 10 percent water shortages calling for voluntary conservation...
TROY, Mich., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Mrs. Lou Allyn Byus has been named Director of Hydro Designs, Inc.'s Illinois division after 31 years of employment with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. During her tenure with the IEPA, Mrs. Byus served as coordinator of the Cross-Connection Program from 1984 -...
HydroPoint's Sustainability 2.0 Solution Empowers California Cities to Achieve Green Objectives PETALUMA, Calif. -- HydroPoint Data Systems Inc., provider of the WeatherTRAK[R] Smart Water Management solution, today announced that the company will be attending the League of California Cities Annual Conference in Long Beach on Sept. 24. HydroPoint...
How many water bottles can one youth soccer organization run through in a single soccer season? The Hillsborough chapter of the American Youth Soccer Organization used more than 30,000 single-use bottles during last season's practices and games. But all that waste is history, thanks to a joint...
BROOMFIELD, Colo. -- MWH, a global provider of environmental engineering, construction and strategic consulting services, announced today that it signed a contract with the American Water Works Association Research Foundation for a high-profile, rapid-response research project to assess the potential impact that underground carbon sequestration has on the quality of...
The American Water Works Association AWWA now has available an interactive CD entitled How Water Works: An Interactive Tour. Take a virtual, interactive tour of a city water system on the new interactive CD version of the popular How Water Works illustrative series from AWWA's Opflow magazine. The CD provides...
Certificates of Recognition were sent to 459companies by the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County for being "goodcorporate citizens" for the year 2007. These companies were consistent intheir compliance with all their industrial wastewater dischargerequirements in 2007. They met their limits for wastewater discharge, theywere free...
You're smart. You're educated. You get yournews from a variety of sources. So how's your "Copper IQ"? Did you know, for example, that when used for frequently touched objectslike doorknobs, railings and work surfaces, uncoated copper kills certain dangerous germs and bacteria ,including the "superbug" MRSA? Or...
Former Director of Environmental Law and Justice Clinic tapped to head Law School SAN FRANCISCO -- Golden Gate University GGU School of Law today announces the appointment of Professor Alan Ramo as its new acting dean, effective August 1, 2008. Ramo previously served as director...
The Los Angeles Board of AirportCommissioners today approved a $9,358,000 contract to Tower GeneralContractors, Sun Valley, Calif., to reconstruct the stucco "skin" andimprove seismic resistance of the landmark Theme Building located in theheart of Los Angeles International Airport LAX. The contract calls for reconstruction of all four arch...
Consumers saddled with old cellphones, TVs and computers are flocking to electronics recycling events, which have sprung up in more than 1,000 communities over the past four years. But don't be fooled, activists warn. Items collected at free events are sometimes destined for salvage yards in...
So you think you know Buffalo? Think again. Most visitors to Buffalo are astounded to find National Historic Landmarks by Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan and H.H. Richardson. Blown away by one of the great collections of modern and contemporary art in the world at the...
Atlantic Records is pleased to announce theupcoming release of the eagerly awaited new album from acclaimedsinger/songwriter Marc Broussard. "KEEP COMING BACK" will arrive in storesand at all digital retailers on September 16th. "KEEP COMING BACK" more than confirms Broussard as an artist uniquelygifted in channeling the multiple...
Voltage Security, Inc. ( www.voltage.com ), aglobal leader in information encryption, today summarized the results fromthe recent National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST sponsoredworkshop: Applications ofPairing Based Cryptography: Identity Based Encryption and Beyond ,recognizing that significant progress has been made in the adoption of Identity-Based...
University of New Orleans archaeology students are digging in the French Quarter, looking for the remains of Fort St. Charles, thought to have once stood on the site of the U.S. Mint. Fort St. Charles, also referred to as Fort San Carlos, was...
OMAHA, Neb. -- Michael Phelps will get another shot at Mark Spitz's Olympic record in Beijing. Gary Hall Jr. won't be going to China at all. Phelps locked up his eight-race schedule by winning the 100- meter butterfly at the...
RENO, Nev. -- An arts and cultural festival that began 13 years ago as an attempt to fill a tourism gap between the Reno Rodeo in June and the Hot August Nights car rally is coming of age as a key component of civic leaders' efforts...
WHO SAYS FOOTBALL AND THE ARTS don't go together? Having brought the art of Deco to Chelsea and reportedly splashed 61.4m on works by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud for his girlfriend's Moscow gallery, Roman Abramovich finds he has an artistic adviser in his new manager's...
The way we live now Brits have been going everywhere for ever. As explorers, then soldiers, colonial administrators, global corporate types and NGO types. And as tourists, poor and rich. The recent rich ones go to those beautifully re-worked princely hotels in India....
For backyard patriots, the rockets available this Fourth of July are flashier, more creative and louder than ever before. Thanks to an increase in the legal limit of the amount of pyrotechnic material allowed in consumer fireworks -- the kind purchased in roadside...
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