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Improving Your Fitness And Environmental Impact With Support And Encouragement From Your Cell Phone
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:00:00 PST)
Planning on gobbling a few extra treats this holiday season? Soon, your cell phone may be able to help you maintain your exercise routine and keep the pounds off over winter months, without your having to lift a finger to keep track. Researchers at the University of Washington and Intel have created two new cell phone applications, dubbed UbiFit and UbiGreen, to automatically track workouts and green transportation.
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Reducing African Meningitis Epidemics With The Help Of UCAR Weather Forecasts
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:00:00 PST)
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), working with an international team of health and weather organizations, is launching a project this month to provide long-term weather forecasts to medical officials in Africa to help reduce outbreaks of meningitis. The forecasts will enable local health providers to target vaccination programs more effectively for this deadly disease, which is correlated with dry and dusty conditions.
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The Toxicity Of Wildfire Smoke
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:00:00 PST)
The health threat to city dwellers posed by Southern California wildfires like those of November 2008 may have been underestimated by officials. Detailed particulate analysis of the smoke produced by previous California wild fires indicates that the composition posed more serious potential threats to health than is generally realized, according to a new paper analyzing particulate matter (PM) from wildfires in Southern California.
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United States: Most state native game fish face extinction
(20 Nov 2008 11:00:00 PST)
San Francisco Chronicle: Most of California's native salmon, steelhead and trout species face extinction by the end of the century unless the state acts quickly to provide adequate freshwater and habitat, according to a study released Wednesday by the state's leading salmon expert. Twenty of 31 species of the prized fishes are in sharp decline, including the Sacramento River winter run of chinook salmon, the Sierra's California golden trout and coastal coho, according to the study by Peter Moyle, a nationally ...
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Bush tears up environmental rule book
(20 Nov 2008 11:00:00 PST)
Business Green: Outgoing US presidents traditionally use their last few months in office to leave some kind of legacy, an indelible sense of their administration's defining philosophy. It looks as if George W Bush is not about to break with tradition. If you are being generous, the philosophy Bush is attempting to enshrine as the removal vans close in on the Oval Office is one of laissez faire, pro-business, light touch regulation. To the president's critics the last few days of the Bush White ...
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Four Klamath River Dams May Be Removed to Benefit Salmon
(19 Nov 2008 11:00:00 PST)
Environment News Service: Four dams on the Klamath River that have blocked salmon runs upstream to their spawning areas may be removed in the year 2020 under an historic agreement among federal, state and corporate parties. Dam removal will re-open over 300 miles of habitat for the Klamath's salmon and steelhead populations and eliminate water quality problems such as toxic algae blooms caused by the reservoirs. The federal government, the state of California, the state of Oregon and the PacifiCorp ...
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:54:16 GMT
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CSO Technik Expansion
(Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT)
Due to continued expansion, CSO Technik have moved to larger premises. The new offices are located in Bough Beech, Kent, and according to Colin Froud, managing director, will meet the company’s needs for the foreseeable future.
“We have been experiencing a period of rapid expansion and staff numbers are 50% higher than last year,” Froud commented. “This is due to significant growth in a number of our market sectors both at home and overseas. Despite the difficult economic conditions, we expect our principal market sector, waste water treatment, to remain stable.” ...
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Wallingford Software Releases Version 9.5 of InfoWorks, FloodWorks and InfoNet
(Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT)
Wallingford Software has simultaneously released version 9.5 of all six of its core software solutions: InfoWorks collection systems (CS), storm drainage (SD), water supply and distribution (WS), river systems (RS), FloodWorks and InfoNet.
As Paul Banfield, Wallingford Software’s sales and marketing director, explains, the scores of enhancements - many of which were introduced in direct response to customer requests - reflect the ongoing evolution in the role of water modeling and asset management software within the industry.
He says: “As the use of water models as a day-to-day opera...
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Quito Chooses InfoWorks WS for Ambitious Mains Improvement Program
(Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT)
Quito, the capital city of the South American country of Ecuador, is using InfoWorks WS as part of an ambitious program to bring ‘best in class’ water supplies to its citizens. Quito is sited in north-central Ecuador, on the slopes of the Pichincha volcano, which makes managing the city’s potable water network a challenge in terms of complexity and the water pressures involved.
Xavier Vidal, who works for the environmental sanitation program of Empresa Metropolitana de Alcantarillado y Agua Potable de Quito (EMAAP-Q, the city’s metropolitan company for water supply and sanitation), says the...
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- Kinetics Jumps Into Hot Water Sector -
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- Will water be the oil of tomorrow? - With the water issue making
the headlines of so many newspapers as the Water Summit took place in
Mexico in March, one could have hardly ignored the extent to which the
most precious liquid on earth is becoming scarce. But long before this
summit, the trend hadn't gone unnoticed by executives at Pictet Asset
Management, who from their home base in Geneva - next to packaged water
giant Nestlé and close to Lyon, home of the world's first water
concession in 1853 - decided to launch in 2000 the Water Fund, the
world's first fund completely invested in water-related equities.
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- Agua Caliente by Richard Karn/the Emerging
Trends Report/2006-03-15 The world's burgeoning population is both
overusing and misusing the planet's finite supply of fresh water.
Between aging infrastructure or lack thereof, aquifer drawdown and bad
water policy, agricultural, industrial and human pollution as well as
salination, and accelerating climate change, the world faces a
developing crisis requiring time, concerted effort, and inconceivable
amounts of money to avert.
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Calgon Carbon
Positions Itself to Always Be Part of the Solution – Written by Neil
Berlant, Water Group Managing Director and First Vice President at
The Seidler Companies. Considering how important water is, investing in
the water industry would appear to be an easy way to make money. Alas, it
is not that simple. Nonetheless, the visibility of the industry, in terms
of growth and opportunity, is exceedingly good.
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Water Funds, ETF's and Venture Capital Investing
- Aqua International Partners, LP - a $240M private equity investment fund focused exclusively in the water sector. Aqua International Partners is an affiliated fund of the Texas Pacific Group
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Aqua Terra Asset Management LLC , an affiliated investment advisor
of Boenning & Scattergood, Inc., provides investors a vehicle for
alternative equity investments with a focus on the natural resource
sectors. We believe that natural resources, and in particular water and
water-related investments, provide attractive long-term opportunities.
- ASN Milieu & Water Fund- Dutch
- ATLANTIS WATER FUND, LP Atlantis - a $250 million private equity fund, was launched in 1998 as a joint venture between GEF and Poseldon Resources Corporation, a project-development company focused exclusively on the water sector. The fund seeks to develop and invest in water and wastewater treatment projects in emerging middle-income and upper-income countries. Atlantis is currently seeking new investment opportunities that range up to $37.5 million per transaction.
- Global Water
Equities Portfolio - FIVE MAJOR INFLUENCES
- Global Water Index ETF (AMEX:CGW) The index is comprised of 50
equity securities selected from a universe of companies listed on global
developed market exchanges and based on the relative importance of the
global water industry within those companies' business models
- KBC Eco Water Fund- Belgian
- MFS Water Fund
portfolio will include investments with global water fund managers and direct investment in the securities of water related companies. Positioned to take advantage of the market dynamics, growth prospects and investment opportunities related to the Global Water Sector, the Fund is an Australian dollar denominated fund and will hedge against foreign exchange movements.
- Pictet Funds
- The fund's objective is to invest worldwide in shares of companies
focused on the water related sector.
- PowerShares Global Water Portfolio (AMEX:
PIO)
- based on the Palisades Global Water Index. The index seeks to identify
a group of companies worldwide that focus on the provision of potable
water, the treatment of water and the technology and services that are
directly related to global water consumption.
- PowerShares Water Resources
(PHO)
- The investment seeks
investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield,
before fees and expenses, of the Pallisades Water Index. The fund will
normally invest at least 80% of its assets in ADRs and common stocks of
companies in the water industry. It will normally invest at least 90% of
its assets in common stocks that comprise the Pallisades Water Index.
The index is comprised of 25 stocks of companies that are publicly
traded in the U.S., and focus on the provision of portable water,
treatment of water, and technologies directly related to water
consumption.
- SAM Sustainable
Water Fund - Switzerland . The fund invests worldwide in
companies that provide technology, products or services relating to the
water value chain. At least two-thirds are invested in companies that
attach considerable importance to sustainability.
Summit Water Equity Fund, Manager: John I. Dickerson
President & CEO www.summitglobal.com/ The Water Fund, LP
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TWF Management Company, LLC - a Registered Investment Advisor, manages The Water Fund, LP. Investing exclusively in the water sector, the fund focuses on water utilities, water technology companies, water infrastructure companies and companies owning water rights as a primary asset. The fund seeks to deliver strong absolute returns in both bull and bear markets with low volatility and a high degree of risk control. The fund's global portfolio favors long and short positions in fundamentally mispriced equity securities, and long positions in companies exhibiting the potential for superior long term growth.
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U.S. Water Equities Portfolio -
Focuses on companies whose primary revenues and growth derive from some aspect of the domestic potable water industry, including: water supply, pumps and pipes, machinery and equipment, filtration and purification, compliance and testing, utilities, metering and distribution, construction and engineering, wastewater treatment and recycling. For additional information on the U.S. Water Equities Portfolio
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Global Water Equities Portfolio - Invests in companies whose primary revenues and growth derive from some aspect of the global potable water industry. For additional information on the Global Water Equities Portfolio:
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Water Industry Experts and Analysts
- BOENNING & SCATTERGOOD - Water stocks research
- Established in 1984, Aquatic Analysts, Inc. is a highly qualified,
full service environmental consulting company specializing in lake, pond
and watershed management. Our distinguished staff of experts have
academic backgrounds in aquatic ecology and extensive experience in the
field.
http://www.aquaticanalysts.com/
- Frost & Sullivan - As the dedicated portal of the Water Group
of Frost & Sullivan, we are able to offer you unrivalled experience in
the field of market analysis in all sectors of the global water
industry. Bringing together the experience of our team of analysts
positioned around the world, water.frost.com offers continuous
monitoring of a vast array of technology and service markets within the
water and wastewater sectors.
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- Neil Berlant, First Vice President and Managing Director of the
Water Group at The Seidler Companies
- Stephen J. Hoffmann President of WaterTech Capital, a
merchant and investment banking firm that specializes in serving the
myriad of companies that, in aggregate, comprise the water ‘industry’.
- Summit Global Management, Inc Report-"Lest We Forget, It's the Global Water Industry"click here
John Dickerson, President & CEO
- Water Environment Federation (WEF) is an international
not-for-profit educational and technical organization of 40,000+
water quality experts. Its mission: preserve and enhance the global
water environment. ... analysts, equipment manufacturers &
distributors, and students who work toward the common goal of the
preservation and enhancement of the global water.
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- William Brennan, Managing Director & Senior Portfolio Manager at Boenning & Scattergood for the U.S. and Global Water Equities
Portfolios
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Water Stock Indices
- Claymore S&P Global Water Index (AMEX:CGW)
- DJ US Water Index
- First Trust ISE Water Index (AMEX:FIW )
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ISE-B&S Water Index (^HHO) The ISE-B&S
Water Index includes companies engaged in water distribution, water
filtration, flow technology, and other water solutions.
- Janney Global Water
Index (Ticker: ^JGI) made up of 60 global water industry stocks,
and its two related 30 stock sub-indexes, Janney Water Works (Ticker: ^JWW),
covering global water utilities, and Janney Water Tech (Ticker: ^JWT),
covering water technology and infrastructure stocks, offers a unique
insight into the global water industry.
- Palisades Water Index (Symbol:
ZWI)
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comprised of publicly traded companies engaged in the water industry.
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SFE
State Water Indexes , Australia
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SecurityStockWatch.com
Water Stock Index
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