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PARIS, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- SUEZ
is announcing the gathering of all its waste services and water
activities within a single division. This division employs some
120,000 persons, represents revenues of 15 billion EUR, and is the
international leader for environment activities.
This strategic decision follows last
December's announcement of the establishment of an Energy division.
It will enable the Group to improve its efficiency and competitive
position in markets that are undergoing major transformation and
offering significant growth prospects.
The organization of the Environment
division will be wholly customer-oriented through two subdivisions:
Municipal and Local: based in
Paris, this will correspond to the traditional activities of Ondeo
and SITA, which today represent a customer base of some 120 million
persons for water services, 74 million for waste services and
hundreds of thousands of commercial and local industries. It focuses
on Europe and the major markets abroad, a rapidly growing territory
comprising North America, Central Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin
America and Africa-Middle East.
Industrial: based in
Napperville, Chicago, this business comprises mainly the activities
run by Nalco, OIS and Teris LLC. This subdivision will have a
portfolio of 60,000 customers for water treatment and environmental
services outsourcing. It is organized according to major industry
sectors such as pulp and paper, oil and chemicals, etc.
SUEZ's Environment division will be
headed by Jacques Petry, Chairman and CEO of Ondeo and Senior
Executive Vice President of SUEZ. Jerome Tolot, Chairman and CEO of
SITA and Executive Vice President of SUEZ, will be in charge of
municipal and local customers. Christian Maurin, Chairman and CEO of
Ondeo Nalco, will be responsible for industrial customers.
China, a market built on a
continental scale and now experiencing exponential growth, is
becoming particularly important to the Group. A specific department
dedicated to this country will be created at the SUEZ level for the
Energy and Environment divisions. It will be headed by Yves-Thibault
de Silguy, Senior Executive Vice President of SUEZ.
With this streamlined structure, SUEZ
Industrial Solutions' business activities will be reinforced towards
large industrial customers, as well as for multi-service offerings.
SUEZ Industrial Solutions is a common unit to the energy and
environment division.
SUEZ is one of the world's premier
services groups, with a staff of 190,000 employees at work in 130
countries, serving industrial, individual, and municipal customers.
SUEZ is a leading international player in each of its businesses:
the world leader in water related services and in waste services
outside the US, among the world's leading energy groups, and no1 in
energy services in Europe. In 2001, it generated revenues of EUR
42.4 billion, 54.6% of which originated outside the Group's domestic
markets of France and Belgium.
DENVER, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The
American Water Works Association (AWWA) today announced
recommendations for public water systems to comply with the Public
Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act (H.R.
3448) signed by President Bush. The Act includes significant new
requirements for water utilities, intended to better prepare the
nation for another terrorist attack.
Title
IV of the Act requires water utilities serving more than 3,300
people to conduct vulnerability assessments to include a review of
pipes and constructed conveyances; physical barriers; water
collection, pretreatment, treatment, and storage and distribution
facilities. The completion dates for vulnerability assessments for
systems serving the indicated population categories are as follows:
100,000 or more - March 31, 2003
50,000 or more but less than
100,000 - December 31, 2003
Greater than 3,300 but less than
50,000 - June 30, 2004
Information contained in the
vulnerability assessment is exempt from the Federal Freedom of
Information Act disclosure. However, AWWA has notified its member
utilities that information in vulnerability assessments may be
discussed with state and local officials, given to Congress upon
request, used in administrative or judicial proceedings, or in other
regulatory proceedings.
"Clearly, we need to ensure that
vulnerability assessments not be subject to disclosure that would
enable this information to fall into the wrong hands. We are calling
on states to ensure that vulnerability assessments are afforded
complete protection under state and local 'sunshine' laws,"
said Tom Curtis, deputy executive director of AWWA. "Utilities
are urged to work for and support amendments to state and local laws
designed to protect vulnerability assessments from disclosure. It
comes down to an issue of national security."
AWWA's 4,500 water utility members
serve 80 percent of the US population -- about 8,000 utilities would
be required to prepare assessments under the new law. AWWA estimates
that $450 million is needed to conduct vulnerability assessments in
those utilities, and an additional $1.6 billion will be needed to
immediately restrict access to water treatment plants and other
property through better fences, locks, alarms, etc. This does not
include the cost of capital-intensive security upgrades that may be
identified as a result of the assessment process. The Act authorizes
$160 million in 2002 and such sums as may be necessary for 2003
through 2005 for drinking water utilities to conduct vulnerability
assessments, revise emergency response plans and make security
upgrades.
"These assessments need to be
completed quickly and thoroughly," continued Curtis.
"Congress should make sure that funding is available to develop
these assessments on the ambitious schedule it has required."
Public water systems serving a
population greater than 3,300 or more are also required to certify
to EPA that the system has completed or revised an Emergency
Response Plan (ERP) that incorporates the results of the
vulnerability assessments. The ERP shall include plans, procedures,
and identification of equipment that can be used in the event of a
terrorist or other intentional attack on a public water system.
AWWA is the authoritative resource
for knowledge, information, and advocacy to improve the quality and
supply of drinking water in North America and beyond. AWWA is the
largest organization of water professionals in the world. AWWA
advances public health, safety and welfare by uniting the efforts of
the full spectrum of the drinking water community.
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Title
IV of the Act requires water utilities serving more than 3,300
people to conduct vulnerability assessments to include a review of
pipes and constructed conveyances; physical barriers; water
collection, pretreatment, treatment, and storage and distribution
facilities. The completion dates for vulnerability assessments for
systems serving the indicated population categories are as follows:
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step-by-step practical calculations & procedures in many
environmental control areas for easy understanding &
applications, and helps engineers respond to very complicated
environmental control problems."
The
Rovers’s twin-shaft grinder slowly travels in close proximity to
the inside of a curved stainless steel screen. Solids captured on
the screen are swept by the grinder and aggressively reduced by two
banks of counter-rotating intermeshing cutters. The discharged
solids either pass through the screen or are automatically recycled
back through the grinder for further reduction. This design provides
unique control and a dependably processed homogenous output.