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Nilaksh Kothari Assumes
Presidency of AWWA
 TORONTO,
CANADA -- Nilaksh Kothari, general manager of public
utilities for Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on Wednesday night
assumed the presidency of the American Water Works
Association (AWWA), the world’s largest and oldest water
organization, at a Gavel Passing Ceremony during AWWA’s
Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE07).
“It is a great honor to lead the
world’s largest and best organization dedicated to public
health through the provision of safe water,” said Kothari,
who has served for many years as a leader in the Wisconsin
Section of AWWA and as an AWWA vice president. “This is a
privilege and an immense responsibility, and I promise to
serve with the same enthusiasm, passion and commitment that
define our profession.”
During Kothari’s career as a
water professional, he has been honored with the AWWA George
Warren Fuller Award (2002), the Wisconsin Section Research
Award (1997), and the Achievement Award in (1996). He also
has served as chair of the Diversity & Member Involvement
Committee and on the Strategic Planning, Education, Water
for People, and Small System and Membrane Process
committees. He is married to wife, Dipika, and has two sons,
Anai and Annoj.
Kothari succeeds Terry Rolan,
director of the City of Durham, N.C., Department of Water
Management, as AWWA president. The new president-elect is
Mike Leonard, water operations manager for the City of
Roswell, Georgia.
In accepting the gavel, Kothari
told a standing-room-only crowd that he would focus on
listening to members, strengthening Section-Association
cooperation, encouraging the use of the best available
technologies, identifying and engaging strategic partners
and continuing succession planning. Among the other speakers
were Kothari’s son, Anai, a student at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, and Mayor Kevin Crawford of Manitowoc.
“It is more important now than
ever to plan for the future,” Kothari said. “As we face the
challenges of the 21st century – aging water infrastructure;
increasing pressure on our water resources; stringent water
quality standards; climate change questions; a changing
workforce; and growing customer expectations-- we need to
keep one eye on the present and the other eye on the needs
of future generations.”
Following the ceremony, the crowd
joined a reception and “tail-gate” party that honored
Kothari’s roots from India and his current home Wisconsin.
Source:
http://www.awwa.org/
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Integrated Fixed-Film Activated Sludge (IFAS) technology to
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centrate wastewater from the city’s solids handling
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Effluent from this plant is used for irrigation in East
Flagstaff and/or discharged the Rio de Flag canal. The
facility will treat the wasted sludge generated from the Rio
de Flag Wastewater Plant in West Flagstaff as well as its
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electrical power usage. The plant is capable of generating
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AnoxKaldnes specially designed aeration system and media
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treatment. Hybas™ systems can operate at MLSS and solids
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 MOSUL,
Iraq -- The US Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region North
district is turning water faucets on in Mosul homes with the
recent completion of five water pump station projects in that
city. Mosul is one of Iraq’s largest cities with more than1.5
million residents.
Water pump stations are an important
part of any city’s infrastructure – they are what keep water
moving between a water source, water treatment facilities and
consumers. Beyond alleviating water shortages, the newly
refurbished pump stations will combat illnesses associated with
drinking unclean water – a danger to the very young and very
old.
“It’s a joy to see the effects on the
community and the security situation in an area when the people
realize that their lives will be positively impacted as a result
of one of our infrastructure reconstruction projects,” said Maj.
Jennifer Munro, Gulf Region North’s Deputy Mosul Area Engineer.
A welcome secondary effect of
infrastructure reconstruction such as this is the blow it
delivers to the insurgency. Clean water makes life easier for
the Iraqis who are connected to the refurbished water pump
stations in Mosul – and when life is easier joining the
insurgency is less enticing.
“In nearly every community supported
by a water sector reconstruction project the security situation
has improved upon completion of the project,” said Munro. The US
Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region North district was tasked
with 1,500 projects in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, at a
cost of nearly 2.6 billion dollars. GRN has completed more than
1,100 of those projects.
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