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AMR : Pilot Program to Detect &
Repair Water Leaks
 VOORHEES,
NJ -- American Water, the largest water services provider in
North America, today announced a first-of-its-kind program
that uses acoustic information from an automatic meter
reading (AMR) system to detect and repair water leaks. Leaks
are a problem plaguing public water systems nationwide.
In its 2005 Report Card for
America's Infrastructure, the American Society of Civil
Engineers states that "each day, six billion gallons of
clean, treated drinking water disappears, mostly due to old,
leaky pipes and mains...enough water to serve the population
of a state the size of California."
The unique AMR program, piloted
in the Connellsville, PA water system, has equipped 500 of
the water meters with an "MLOG" leak detecting sensor,
manufactured by Flow Metrix, and an AMR transmitter as part
of a fixed network system designed by Hexagram, Inc.
Permanently installed on pipes near water service meters,
MLOG sensors record sound vibrations over a period of four
hours each night. Specially designed software analyzes these
acoustical patterns and assigns them one of four leak
categories: no leak present, possible leak, probable leak,
or no data available.
"Leak monitoring with AMR allows
us to locate and repair leaks that would normally remain
undiscovered until they caused significant damage," said
Wayne Morgan, VP Business Performance for American Water's
Northeast Region. "This technology offers us the opportunity
to examine an aging distribution system and explore the
nature of water main leaks-- from the time they start, to
the time they become visible and severe enough to be
repaired."
American Water chose
Connellsville as the site of its leak monitoring trial
because of the city's unique geography: it sits on a
hillside along the Youghiogheny River, enabling leaks to
flow underground to the river undetected. Additionally,
Non-Revenue Water (NRW) exceeds 25 percent, and the cost of
water is purchased at a premium for the system, providing a
strong financial driver for effective leakage reduction.
By utilizing the MLOG leak
detection system, American Water will reduce operating
expenses, decrease water wastage and increase water
availability in Connellsville. "This program promotes water
resource conservation and gives American Water an
affordable, round-the-clock means of detecting and repairing
water leaks in Connellsville," said Morgan.
The Connellsville pilot is one of
a series of water leak programs American Water plans to
monitor within the next year, including two
already-completed projects in Uniontown, Pa. and Manville,
N.J., which utilize MLOG sensors, but not AMR technology.
American Water offers a
comprehensive menu of water loss management services,
including water loss system evaluation, leak detection,
meter management, a LineSaver Service Line Protection
Program for homeowners and network repair and replacement.
For more information on the Connellsville pilot or American
Water's leak management services, contact Wayne Morgan
609-512-3607.
With a history of over 100 years,
American Water provides high quality water, wastewater, and
other related services to over 18 million people in 29
states and 3 Canadian provinces. Employing approximately
7,000 and reporting over $2 billion in revenue, American
Water is an integrated part of RWE's water division, which
includes London-based Thames Water.
More information can be found by
visiting www.amwater.com
and www.flowmetrix.com
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NAT : Alliance to Develop
Biological Testing for Water Industry
 TREVOSE,
PA and SAN DIEGO, CA -- GE Infrastructure, Water & Process
Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company, and
Gen-Probe announced today that the two companies will work
together on an exclusive basis to develop, manufacture and
commercialize nucleic acid testing (NAT) technologies that
are designed to detect the unique genetic sequences of
microorganisms in selected water applications.
“In
today’s day and age, we must do everything we can to ensure
the safety of our water resources,” said George Oliver,
president and chief executive officer of GE Infrastructure,
Water & Process Technologies. "The GE-Gen-Probe alliance
will explore pioneering technologies that will help prevent
the spread of illness and disease throughout the world."
Hank
Nordhoff, Gen-Probe’s chairman, president and chief
executive officer, said, “This agreement represents a
significant milestone in our strategy to enter attractive
new growth markets with proprietary NAT technologies. By
partnering with a world leader in industrial water
treatment, we hope to replicate our successes in the
clinical microbiology and blood screening markets, where we
have converted our customers from traditional testing
methods and established market leadership positions.”
Worldwide, 1.2 billion people do not have access to safe,
usable water daily, and 5 million people die each year from
waterborne diseases. The most common and pervasive water
risks are caused by infectious diseases such as pathogenic
bacteria, viruses and protozoan parasites. People are
introduced to these microorganisms through contaminated
drinking water, irrigation, aerosols, and washing or
bathing.
The
companies estimate that more than 1 billion industrial
microbiology tests are conducted annually around the world.
Roughly three-quarters of these tests are conducted using
culture methods that cannot deliver results as rapidly as
NAT technologies.
GE
Infrastructure, Water & Process Technologies: a unit
of General Electric Company, is an industry leader in
solving the world’s most pressing water reuse, industrial,
irrigation, municipal, and drinking water needs. Through
desalination, advanced membrane, separation solutions, and
water reuse and wastewater management and process
technologies, GE delivers added value to its customers. For
more information on GE Infrastructure, Water & Process
Technologies, visit
www.gewater.com.
Gen-Probe: Gen-Probe Incorporated is a global leader
in the development, manufacture and marketing of rapid,
accurate and cost-effective nucleic acid tests (NATs) used
to diagnose human diseases and screen donated human blood.
Gen-Probe markets a broad portfolio of products that use the
Company’s patented technologies to detect infectious
microorganisms, including those causing sexually transmitted
diseases, tuberculosis, strep throat, pneumonia and fungal
infections. For more information, go to
www.gen-probe.com.
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Middle East: Exploiting a
Booming Water Market
 DUBLIN,
Ireland -- Research and Markets has announced the addition
of "Water Market Middle East: Exploiting a Booming Market"
to their offerings.
One of
the big questions for the global economy in 2005 is how the
Middle Eastern region will recycle its oil surplus. But
there is one certainty: there is going to be significant
investment in the region's water and wastewater
infrastructure. The combination of a fast growing
population, highly stressed natural water resources and the
challenge of industrialization means that developing new
water sources and putting wastewater to better use is a
priority across the region.
"Water
Market Middle East" spells out the opportunity, country by
country, project by project. The Middle East region
has 5% of the world's population, but only 1% of the world's
renewable water resources. With the population of the region
increasing rapidly, and the availability of potable ground
water declining, investment in developing new water sources
in accelerating. "Water Market Middle East" is your key to
making the most of this market.
Did
you know that Saudi Arabia intends to spend twice as much
money on wastewater over the next decade? It throws into
perspective the urgency with which governments are
developing the dirty water business in the region. The
environmental implications of growing cities, together with
the necessity of increased reuse means that wastewater is
now at the top of the investment agenda for many countries
in the region. "Water Market Middle East" unlocks the market
for your company.
The
core of the report comprises 20 country profiles giving you
the information you need to make the most of the market.
Each profile explains the structure of the water and
wastewater sector, outlines its challenges, policy responses
and financing arrangements, and concludes with a summary of
all the project proposals for the next decade.
- How
big is the market?
- Where are the opportunities?
- Where is the legal and regulatory framework most
favorable?
- How will the market develop?
- Who should you contact to take things further?
Based
on new original research "Water Market Middle East" offers a
unique insight into the outlook for the whole region from
Morocco to Iran. With more than 250 pages of in-depth data,
charts and analysis, including details of nearly 400
projects with a combined value approaching 0 billion, it is
your connection to the most important water market in the
world today.
For
more information visit
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c20934
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Insituform : Contracts for Colorado Springs Sewer Rehab
St. Louis, MO -- Insituform
Technologies has contracted with Colorado Springs
Utilities to provide sewer rehabilitation and
replacement over the next three years. The budget for
the contract is $16.8 million.
The work is a phase of the
utility’s 10-to-15-year, aggressive wastewater
infrastructure inspection and assessment program
(Sanitary Sewer Evaluation and Rehabilitation Project,
or SSERP). The utility covers a 200-square-mile area of
Colorado Springs and has 1,450 miles of pipe, with 30 to
35 miles of new pipe added each year.
“Having successfully
completed rehab work for Colorado Springs Utilities in
the past, Insituform was eager to win this contract,”
says Insituform Business Development Manager Joe Lane.
“With our capabilities for management of large-scale
projects, we believe Insituform is a good fit for the
utility’s needs.”
Initial plans call for work
on sewer pipe in eight basins in the Colorado Springs
Utilities system: Bear Creek, Downtown, Garden of the
Gods, Lower Sand Creek, Patty Jewett, Rockrimmon, Shooks
Run and Spring Creek. In April, Insituform began
notifying residents and businesses in surrounding areas
about the planned work and determining logistical
methods to minimize the impact on each area.
As deteriorating pipe in the
system is identified via the assessment program,
Insituform will rehabilitate it, or dig it up and
replace it if it is beyond rehabilitation. Lane said a
large percentage of the pipe is expected to be
rehabilitated with the “cured-in-place” (CIPP) process,
the most widely used trenchless (non-dig) method for
restoring structural integrity to and removing
infiltration from sewers.
Working from manholes,
Insituform will be installing a flexible liner inside
these existing sewers. Once in place, the liner is then
heated and cured into a structurally sound
pipe-within-a-pipe. A typical installation takes about a
day to complete, compared to the weeks it can take to
dig up and replace pipe.
Some Colorado Springs
Utilities pipe not suitable for cured-in-place
rehabilitation may be rehabilitated using pipe-bursting
methods, in which a new polyethylene pipe is pulled into
an existing sewer pipe through a manhole. The new pipe
has a head that bursts the existing pipe and pushes it
into surrounding soil. The new pipeline fills the
cleared space.
Insituform Technologies, Inc.
is a leading worldwide provider of proprietary
technologies and services for rehabilitating sewer,
water, and other underground piping systems without
digging and disruption.
More information about the
company can be found on its Internet site at
www.insituform.com
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