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Products
 Huntsville,
AL -- ADS LLC, formerly ADS Corporation, introduces
Hydra-Stop® products and contract services for line
stopping, valve insertion and line tapping (pipe tapping).
Hydra-Stop, recently acquired by
ADS, is the world’s only manufacturer of a completely
modular set of pipe maintenance equipment designed to stop
boil orders, stop system shutdown, stop costly ‘pump around’
fees, and stop revenue loss. Hydra-Stop equipment is used
for inserting, changing or repairing valves or hydrants,
tying in new lines or services, changing large meters or
backflow preventers, abandoning wells or storage.
Hydra-Stop offers a full line of
pipe maintenance equipment including the Hydra-Stopping®
System, Jr. Hydra-Stopper®, and Insta-Dam®. These
line-stoppers eliminate system shut-down when isolating
water or gas lines (of any size) for repair or replacement
of valves and hydrants. Other products include: Insta-Valve®
insertable valve, Hydra-Tapper® for pipe tapping, and
Hydra-Turn® 1 valve turning machine.
All products are modular,
providing the flexibility to add functionality to any system
for any application. Hydra-Stop also provides contract
services for line stopping, line tapping, and valve
insertion services using Hydra-Stop products.
“ADS is pleased to offer the
Hydra-Stop product line and contract services,” states Karl
Boone, President and CEO of ADS LLC. “Their longevity in the
industry, unique product offering, and reputation for
excellence in products and services are a perfect compliment
to the customer-focused, full-service philosophy of ADS
LLC.”
“It is great to be a part of the
ADS team with their strong product and service offerings,”
states Brett Hanes, General Manager of Hydra-Stop. “Like
ADS, we are committed to providing efficient and flexible
solutions for our customers as well as the finest field
personnel to implement and maintain these solutions.”
ADS LLC develops and provides
technology-based hardware and software products and services
for the water, wastewater, and hydroelectric industries
through three divisions, ADS Environmental Services,
Hydra-Stop and Accusonic Technologies.
For more information on
Hydra-Stop products and services visit
www.hydra-stop.com
or call Hydra-Stop at 800-538-7867.
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Process that Prevents Production
of Waste Sludge
 Port
Washington, WS -- The former president of ITT’s Advanced
Water Treatment unit announced today that the company he now
heads, Aquarius Technologies, has secured $7.5 million in
funding to globally market proprietary processes that
prevent, not reduce, the generation of waste sludge during
wastewater treatment.
CEO
Tom Pokorsky, a past chairman of the Water Wastewater
Equipment Manufacturers Association, said that L Capital
Partners in New York led the financing round, which will
enable the company to ramp up sales and marketing of its
sludgeless processes.
“Most
wastewater treatment facilities use the
return-activated-sludge process to degrade and settle out
particulates, which creates waste sludge,” he said. “But
with our multistage activated biological process (MSABP), no
waste sludge is created.
“In
the most simplistic of terms,” he explained, “this process
for treatment of biodegradable, organic pollutants is based
on naturally occurring microbial food chains, in which
microbes are consumed by primary microorganisms, which are
then themselves consumed by higher organized microbes. The
end result is sludgeless, highly purified effluent.”
Pokorsky adds that the company also has a proprietary
sludgeless solution for treatment of non-biodegradable and
toxic pollutants: “Aquarius Technologies’ electro-catalytic
process (ELCAT) also is a chemical-free and sludgeless
process,” he said, “but the ELCAT process is for treatment
of such pollutants as textile dyes, detergents, cyanides,
pesticides, herbicides, hydrocarbons and phenols.
“Unlike processes that simply add oxygen-containing chlorine
compounds,” he said, “the ELCAT two-stage process is based
on electrochemical oxidation followed by catalytic
oxidation. Compounds present in the wastewater serve as
catalysts for the oxidation processes, so there’s no need
for chemicals.”
Said Oded Weiss, partner and
chief financial officer at L Capital Partners: “These
processes eliminate a facility’s high cost of turning waste
sludge into EPA-acceptable ‘biosolids’ for landfill disposal
or fertilizer. And with increasingly stringent standards
expected, compliance will get even more difficult – and even
more expensive. So we put our money on the Aquarius
Technologies’ value proposition: Cost-effective compliance.
That’s good for business and it’s good for the environment.
“And, of course, we believe that’s good for us,” added
Weiss, stating that this year there have been a number of
“noteworthy acquisitions” in the wastewater treatment
industry, among them General Electric acquiring Zenon and
Siemens acquiring USFilter. Neither acquired company, he
said, has the advanced solutions that Aquarius Technologies
offers.
“We understand that it’s
difficult to believe the ‘sludgeless’ claim being made,”
acknowledged Weiss. “Tom traveled to the Middle East to talk
with some of the 30 municipal and industrial customers who
have been using the processes, and to see the results with
his own eyes before he would sign on as CEO,” he continued.
“Obviously, he was convinced.”
The
processes are being successfully deployed in Asia, Europe
and North America, in addition to the Middle East, said
Pokorsky, adding, “A full-scale project is currently being
installed in California and two U.S. pilot projects are
planned for next year.”
For more information contact:
Aquarius Technologies
1103 Mineral Springs Drive, Suite 300
Port Washington, WI 53074
Telephone: 262-268-1500
Web site:
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Free : New WHO Guidelines for
Safe Wastewater Use
 Beijing,
China-- In many parts of the world, good quality fresh water
resources are becoming increasingly scarce. At the same
time, wastewater is produced in ever-larger quantities,
mainly as a result of the continued growth of the human
population and the process of rapid urbanization.
In
reality, wastewater is a water resource of ever-growing
importance, particularly for the urban and peri-urban poor
whose livelihoods depend on agricultural products that can
be marketed locally. However, its use for crop and fish
production carries important health risks and the disease
burden that can be attributed to its unsafe use is
considerable.
The
third edition of the WHO Guidelines for the Safe Use of
Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater in Agriculture and
Aquaculture is published in four volumes, addressing,
respectively, policy and regulatory aspects, wastewater use
in agriculture, wastewater and excreta use in aquaculture
and excreta and greywater use in agriculture. It supersedes
the second edition of the guidelines, which was published in
1989.
"This
third edition of the Wastewater Guidelines marks an
important departure from the previous edition," says Susanne
Weber-Mosdorf, Assistant Director-General for the Cluster of
Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments. "The rigid
and prescriptive character of the second edition has evolved
to a more contemporary and flexible approach based on
scientific evidence and process-oriented risk assessment and
management. The Guidelines reflect a strong focus on disease
prevention and public health principles. Water quality
regulators will have to work towards attaining health-based
targets through an integrated approach."
Parallel to this new thinking on handling risks in an
integrated manner, the guidelines also reflect new thinking
in the field of sanitation. This has evolved in part in
response to the sanitation target within the Millennium
Development Goals. Volume 4 of this third edition elaborates
on this issue and the links to safe use of excreta and
greywater in agriculture.
The
guidelines clearly reflect regional differences in
wastewater use and in associated public health issues. For
example, the use of wastewater and excreta in aquaculture in
SE Asia brings with it region-specific risks, such as the
transmission of food-borne trematodes. These parasitic
flukes have a complex life cycle that involves aquatic
snails and fish as intermediate hosts; water bodies are
contaminated by human excreta containing the parasite's
eggs. Consumption of raw or fermented fish -- a common
practice in rural communities of SE Asia -- from infected
ponds closes the infection cycle.
The
WHO Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta and
Greywater in Agriculture and Aquaculture reflect the
knowledge and experience of a unique group of scientists,
regulators and public health specialists brought together by
the Water, Sanitation and Health Programme of the World
Health Organization. The next step will be their
implementation by WHO Member States. To study the obstacles
and opportunities that may be encountered in their
application and use, WHO and the Canadian International
Development Research Centre shortly will start joint
research in three countries in North and /or West Africa.
The
Guidelines are free and available online at the World Health
Organization's web site:
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/wastewater/gsuww/en/index.html
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Siemens
Acquires Chinese CNC Water Technology
 Erlangen,
Germany -- Siemens expands its solution business for water
treatment in China with the acquisition of CNC Water Technology
Inc., Beijing, a successful Chinese system integrator. With 120
employees, including 70 engineers, the company is exclusively
active in the water sector and primarily in industrial
filtration applications.
"The corporation has a very solid
reputation in the Chinese water market", said Roger Radke, head
of Water Technologies, a division of the Siemens Group
Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S). "With the acquisition
we can combine Siemens' water treatment products and systems
with CNCґs leadership position in large water treatment and
seawater desalination projects in China, to dramatically develop
the world's potentially largest and fastest growing market."
Established in 2002 to introduce
membrane filtration treatment process to the seawater
desalination and wastewater treatment market in China, CNC
relied on its technical competencies and particularly strong
experiences in ultra-filtration and reverse osmosis membrane
fabrication to quickly become a market leader.
Since 2002, it has successfully
executed some of the largest projects in China for seawater
desalination industrial wastewater and municipal water
treatment, covering a wide industry range, including
petrochemicals, refining, power generation, and steel
production. Beijing bases CNC Water Technology Inc. is a 100%
owned company of the CNC (HK) Water Technology Limited., Hong
Kong, of which Siemens has acquired the majority with 70%
ownership. An option has been agreed upon the parties granting
Siemens the right to acquire the remaining 30 per cent of the
shares after three years.
"The synergies between CNC and
Siemens will form a new combination to serve customers both in
municipalities and industries", Radke said. With a growth rate
of about 15% per year, the Chinese water market is projected to
be the second largest market after the US. "This will also be
driven by infrastructural needs and upcoming mega-events, such
as the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Expo 2010 in Shanghai", Radke
said.
In the mid term Siemens intends to
use China as one of its manufacturing platforms in the region.
The strategy includes transfer of technology and manufacturing
into China, as well as further acquisitions and partnership
agreements with system integrators, engineering and service
companies. Through customer relationships and interactions with
the local Design Institutes Siemens gains the required technical
acceptance in the market.
Siemens Water Technologies
Siemens Water Technologies including
the USFilter Group of Companies delivers cost-effective,
reliable water and wastewater treatment systems and services to
municipal, industrial, commercial and institutional customers
worldwide. The division "Water Technologies" is part of Siemens'
Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) which is a system
and solution provider for industrial and infrastructure
facilities.
Visit company websites at
http://www.usfilter.com/
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