Day: 20 April 2005

Uncertainty inevitable in dam design

Risk and Uncertainty in Dam Safety by CEA Technologies' Dam Safety Interest Group. Review by Dragutin Jovanovic, chief engineer for the Ministry of Water Resources, Ethiopia

Burgeoning demand for flowmeter calibration in China

China's economic transformation has resulted in a dramatic increase in the demand for industrial equipment. Bryan Franklin, flow products manager at ABB in the UK, explains how the company is investing in new facilities in China to meet the demand for accurately calibrated flowmeters.

Treatment plants meet EU incineration standards

New EU waste incineration directives are driving Yorkshire Water's plans to build four effluent treatment plants for sewage sludge incineration in the North East of England. Peter Ripley, managing director of ACWa Services in the UK describes the project and the process.

Reed bed research offers wastewater solution

The Kyoto Protocol on energy consumption and the EU Water Framework Directive on water pollution are driving a new EU LIFE Environment funded research project which aims to bring the concept of tertiary wastewater treatment, using renewable bioenergy, closer to commercial application. Alex Hutchinson, environmental scientist at WRc Group, UK, explains.

Education spin-off from Indian RWH

As Delhi hosts national Mass Awareness Week on Rainwater Harvesting for India (see News), Dr Rolf Leutert, president of the philanthropic Bicentenary Foundation at Georg Fischer AG, explains how RWH projects are not only improving clean water provision in some villages but improving literacy rates among women and children.

Urban tree risk management

Arboricultural expert Chris Allder of ADAS, the UK's largest provider of rural and environmental solutions and policy advice, explains why the adoption of a tree risk management policy will prevent the loss of mature and increasingly rare trees from towns and cities.

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