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Water and Waste Water Dot Com Newsletter
"For the water and wastewater treatment professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 18, July 17, 2000
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@waterandwastewater.com
Copyright 1999-2000, Water and Waste Water Dot Com
John Yazek, Co-Editor, mailto:jyazek@h2ochem.com
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The Newsletter
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Our goal is to provide information to improve your business
by using the resources available on the Internet.
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Thanks, Joe Taylor
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> Sell More.....with RealTime Aide
> New Sponsor for Water and Waste Water Dot Com
> E-Commerce Taps Into In Water Industry's Market
> This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
> Partnership to Provide Online Permit Processing
> California Water Association Misses the Boat on MTBE
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe and Unsubscribe Information
> ReferWare
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Contributors Wanted!
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Press releases, show announcements and industry news wanted!
Do you have company news, a new product, new service or other
information you would like to share with our subscribers?
DEADLINE FOR THE NEXT ISSUE IS: July 20, 2000
We give full credit to contributing authors. If so please send
it to:
mailto:news@waterandwastewater.com
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We are pleased to announce a new sponsor for our site:
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WaterDesk.com was formed in order to create an on-line
marketplace for the water and wastewater industry. For
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or contact Water Desk at:
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E-Commerce Taps Into In Water Industry's Market
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PHILDELPHIA, PA, -Waterwares.com (www.waterwares.com), a
leading retailer of water treatment equipment, launched its
Web site today, debuting the water treatment industry's
first e-commerce portal for manufacturers and end users.
The new portal features thousands of water treatment products
and related accessories from more than 150 premier
manufacturers, which sell directly to end-user organizations
including municipal and industrial water and wastewater
treatment plants, international dealers and independent
dealer organizations.
For the first time, through a rich database of more than
100,000 items from premier manufacturers, Waterwares.com
enables comparison-shopping and instant online purchasing
without middle-market delays and cost increases. According
to the Filtration News, the water and wastewater treatment
equipment industry is over $5 billion per year in the US alone.
"This is a win-win situation for both customers and
manufacturers," said Waterwares.com Chief Operating Officer
Thane Tagg. "While customers can benefit from a highly
accessible, cost-effective, efficient and secure e-commerce
site, manufacturers can quickly expand their market reach
and reduce sales expenses-without any upfront costs."
Through strategic agreements with Waterwares.com, leading
manufacturers offer merchandise at extremely competitive
pricing. This inventory is conveniently cross referenced
in 20 major categories including purification, filtration,
analytical, disinfection, parts and accessories and/or by
part number, product description and manufacturer name.
"Waterwares.com is uniquely positioned to fill the void
in water treatment product supply and is fast becoming
the leading source for municipal equipment and supplies,"
said Trumbauersville Water Authority Director Fred Potter.
"With its repository of more than 100,000 products, quick
delivery at competitive costs, Waterwares.com possesses
the tools to rapidly redefine the way equipment is
purchased within this industry."
For more information contact:
Waterwares.com
P.O. Box 548
Blue Bell, PA 19422
Phone: 888-387-3288
Fax: 888-387-3298
Web site: http://www.waterwares.com/
mailto:info@waterwares.com
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This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
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Top picks from the Reading Room this week are:
"Wastewater
Engineering: Treatment, Disposal, and Reuse"
(McGraw-Hill Series in Water Resources and Environmental
Engineering)
by George Tchobanoglous, F. L. Burton, Staff Metcalf &. Eddy
Hardcover, 3rd edition, December 1991
"Theory
and Practice of Water and Wastewater Treatment"
by Ronald L. Droste
Hardcover, 816 pages, August, 1996
"Wastewater
Microbiology"
by Gabriel Bitton
Paperback, 488 pages, May, 1994
We thank you for your continued support of the Reading Room.
Do you need a book? Can you suggest a book you love, that we
should have in the Reading Room? Let me know and we will
try to include it!
You can visit the Reading Room and view the selections we
have made for you at:
http://www.waterandwastewater.com/www_services/readingroom.htm
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Partnership to Provide Online Permit Processing
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MESA, AZ - July 17, 2000 (INB) -- NationalContractors.com,
Inc. < http://www.nationalcontractors.com/>,
a leading
construction e-business services provider, today announced
that it has extended its e-market services through a
partnership with NetClerk http://www.netclerk.com/
the online
permit center.
NationalContractors.com has created a comprehensive suite of
e-business services for all aspects of the Project
Definition stage of a construction project, including
project planning, the provision of finance, the
identification and acquisition of land, the supply of
blueprints, permits, building materials and a myriad of
related services, all underscored by an extensive database
of pre-screened general contractors and sub-contractors to
manage and execute the physical construction. This
particular partnership directly supports the need for online
permit processing that accompanies the planning stage of a
construction project.
"Online permit processing is a very important part of the
project definition process and it fits perfectly within our
e-market," says Paul Coombs, CEO of National
Contractors.com. "We will also be exploring cross marketing
and promotional opportunities with NetClerk," added Coombs.
NetClerk's web-based permit management system allows
construction professionals to obtain all of their building,
plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and roofing permits from
one central online location. Using NetClerk's proprietary
technology, contractors can complete, submit, store and
retrieve city and county permit applications online. "We're
excited about working with National Contractors.com and
providing the permitting infrastructure for their permit
service," stated John Heineman Director of Marketing at
NetClerk. "Our online application will provide National
Contractor.com's customers with one more valuable tool to
streamline their daily operations."
About National Contractors.com
National Contractors.com is a rapidly growing e-market for
the construction industry that provides pre-screened
construction resources and services for projects over
$25,000. Along with its network of over 1,800 affiliates,
the company received more than $7.5B in upcoming
construction projects through its web site during the first
six months of 2000. National Contractors.com caters to the
high-end residential, commercial development and remodeling
industry providing pre-screened contractors for property
management, corporations and franchises nationwide. National
Contractors.com is the only e-market for the construction
industry that focuses on making life easier and more
economic for the developer by providing pre-screened
construction resources and services both nationally and
internationally.
For more information contact:
Mr. Steve Berg
Director of Marketing
National Contractors.com
6344 East Brown Rd. Suite #104
Mesa Az. 85205
Telephone: 800-935 6265
Fax: 800-887-6260
Web site: http://www.nationalcontractors.com/
mailto:sberg@nationalcontractors.com
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California Water Association Misses the Boat on MTBE
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ARLINGTON, Va., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement
was issued by the Oxygenated Fuels Association:
The Association of California Water Agencies' (ACWA) misleading
and inaccurate charge that MTBE, the key ingredient of cleaner
burning reformulated gasoline, represents an overwhelming threat
to California's drinking water only serves to further cloud the
truth in the MTBE debate and does a disservice to Californians,
according to the Oxygenated Fuels Association. A closer look at
the same state monitoring data used by ACWA reveals the claims
the agency made in its July 12, 2000 press release to be far off
the mark.
MTBE has been detected in less than 1% of California water
systems that have been tested, a far cry from what ACWA has
described as a crisis situation. Furthermore, detections of MTBE
above the state's Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) occurred in only
0.2% of those systems tested.
MTBE has been hailed as the workhorse of California's cleaner
burning gasoline program and its use has contributed to a
demonstrated reduction in air pollution in the state's smoggiest
cities. For example, the city of Los Angeles is enjoying its
best air quality in more than fifty years due to the use of MTBE
in gasoline.
Yet, ACWA calls for the immediate elimination of MTBE on the
grounds that it poses a significant threat to groundwater.
"Nothing could be further from the truth," says Thomas
Adams,
Executive Director of the Oxygenated Fuels Association.
"Detections of MTBE and other constituents of gasoline being
found in groundwater actually are declining. California should
serve as a model for other states for its great job to date of
bringing leaking, substandard gasoline storage tanks -- the
primary avenue for gasoline to contaminate groundwater -- into
compliance with the new more stringent rules and regulations
governing their use," added Adams.
"It is important to realize that, unless you fix the
underground
gasoline storage tanks and leaky fuel pipelines, and unless you
vigilantly monitor and clean up gasoline spills, gasoline, with
or without MTBE will contaminate groundwater. In Lake Tahoe they
replaced MTBE with ethanol and did nothing about leaking gasoline
storage tanks. It should surprise no one that within sixty days
of the switch, it was ethanol and not MTBE that was being detected
in groundwater," commented Adams.
As California continues to move toward full compliance with
underground gasoline storage tank regulations, gasoline's threat
to groundwater will continue to diminish. At the same time, the
use of MTBE in cleaner burning gasoline will continue to provide
air quality benefits to millions of Californians. Clean air and
clean water are not mutually exclusive -- Californian's want, and
deserve, both.
The Oxygenated Fuels Association is an international trade
association incorporated in 1983 to advance knowledge about the
use of oxygenated fuel additives which improve the combustion
performance of motor vehicle fuels, thereby significantly
reducing automobile emissions and air pollution.
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Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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No new messages were posted on the Help Forum this week.
People post their requests for help and offer their suggestions
to others in our open forum.
The Help Forum is open for everyone to use. Share your
expertise with others, you can find these & other messages at:
http://www.waterandwastewater.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photo shows the microfiltration part of a 2.5 m3/hr
waste water treatment plant coupling proprietary physical
chemistry with microfiltration. The plant has been installed
at one of the factories of the SWATCH Group in Switzerland
and treats waste water coming from the surface treatment and
vibro-polishing activities. It is equipped with a automatic
back flush system using the filtrate, the membrane surface
is 12 m2.
Photograph courtesy of Mr. Perret Jacques Px TECH SA, Switzerland
http://www.groupepx.com/pxtech/index.html
We would love to have your photo of a water treatment process,
new plant or equipment "action shot" for our home page.
If you have a favorite photograph of water treatment at its
best, please e-mail us a jpeg or gif of the photo with a
description of what is in the photo for our home page.
Full credit and the description of the photo will be given.
Photographs are be changed every two weeks to give everyone
a chance to be included.
Send your photograph and description to,
mailto:news@waterandwastewater.com
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From the Job Fair
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treatment systems,is looking for sales consultants that
presently have an existing client base in the South
American/Mexico market.We would especially like to speak
with Sales consultant with ongoing projects in South
America/Mexico. Please contact me for more information.
We have one of the best commission plans in the industry.
Martin Ruiz
V.P of Operations
Aqua Environmental Inc.
Telephone:954-432-0328
Web site: http://www.aquaenvironmental.com/
mailto:martin@aquaenvironmental.com
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