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New Breed Of Supercomputers To Improve Assessment Of Global Climate Change
(Sat, 10 May 2008 07:00:00 PDT)
Three researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power embedded microprocessors, an approach that would overcome limitations posed by today's conventional supercomputers.
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Unmanned Aircraft To Study Southern California Smog And Its Consequences
(Sat, 10 May 2008 02:00:00 PDT)
Using sophisticated unmanned aircraft, research scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego hope to assess Southern California's potential for climate change and better understand the sources of air pollution.
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Fungus Resistance At Molecular Level Keeps Tomatoes From Wilting
(Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT)
According to a study published in the open-access journal PLoSPathogens, researchers at the University of Amsterdam havediscovered how to conquer the wilting tomato. Dr. Martijn Repand colleagues reached their conclusions by studying the molecularlevel of the tomato.Plants pathogens are remarkably talented when it comes to evolvingalong with the immune systems of their hosts, farmers andagriculturalists have to constantly adapt to this evolutionary ability.
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'Ark' Designed to Save Imperiled Amphibians
(12 May 2008 00:00:01 CST)
Washington Post: The 300 Kihansi spray toads residing in a small room at the Bronx Zoo chirp cheerily as they bask in a light sprinkling of water 14 times a day. Until a few years ago, the tiny, mustard-colored toads existed only in a river gorge in Tanzania. Now the survivors are confined to the Bronx and Toledo zoos, having gone extinct in the wild. With thousands of amphibian species facing unprecedented threats to their survival, scientists have launched a global effort to collect them in zoos in ...
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Australia: Climate policy to hurt agriculture in short term
(12 May 2008 00:00:01 CST)
Age: THE Federal Government's climate change policy will have a much bigger initial impact on agriculture than climate change itself. That was a key message delivered to a farming and climate change conference by Mick Keogh, executive director of the Australian Farm Institute. Agribusiness Gippsland organised the conference in Warragul. Mr Keogh said the introduction of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) in 2010 would be "a significant challenge in the short to medium ...
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United States: Dry summer could spell nasty wildfire season
(11 May 2008 00:00:01 CST)
Associated Press: With millions of trees ravaged by bark beetles, Colorado is bracing for what could be a nasty wildfire season this year even as federal officials say they're ready. Gov. Bill Ritter met with state and federal officials at the governor's annual fire season briefing Friday and warned that forecasts for a warm, windy summer could significantly increase the number of wildfires. He said a large snowpack this year means more grass to fuel flames. Colorado's wildfire season got off to ...
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Biwater AEWT's RO System To Supply 15% of Singapore's Water
(Tue, 06 May 2008 12:10:31 GMT)
Biwater AEWT was recently awarded a supply contract for the largest Water Reuse project in South East Asia. At a capacity of 228,000 m³/day (60MGD), this will provide 15% of Singapore's water demand by 2010.
The contract, awarded by the main contractor, SembCorp Industries, is for a Reverse Osmosis treatment plant for the fifth, and largest, NEWater facility in Singapore. SembCorp Industries is the main contractor for the design, build, own and operate contract at the Changi Water Reclamation Plant.
The new plant will initially treat 68,130 m³/d (18 MGD) of Changi Water Reclamation Plant's total effluent, which is currently 800,000 m³/d (211 MGD). By 2010 treatment at the new plant will be ramped up to 228,000 m³/d (60 MGD).
Biwater has now secured a total capacity of over 1,562 MLD (413 MGD) installed or contracted projects in reverse osmosis and nanofiltration for the treatment of seawater, brackish water and water re-use.
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FloodWorks v9.0 Extends Flood Forecasting to Wastewater and Stormwater Networks
(Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:12:15 GMT)
Wallingford Software today announces the release of FloodWorks v9.0, the leading real time flood forecasting and warning software solution. Two significant advances head a large number of feature enhancements in v9.0: the ability to include wastewater and stormwater models within FloodWorks and the direct integration of RADAR data into FloodWorks.
In FloodWorks v9.0 wastewater (InfoWorks CS) and stormwater (InfoWorks SD) models can now be integrated directly into the FloodWorks forecasting system. Outfalls from InfoWorks CS and InfoWorks SD models can be connected directly to existing InfoWorks RS models of river and floodplain areas to provide a more accurate and comprehensive representation of the runoff from urban areas and its contribution to overall flooding.
Product Manager, Tyrone Parkinson says: "InfoWorks CS and InfoWorks SD may be used in isolation of course to model urban flooding from wastewater and stormwater systems. But when integrated with FloodWorks v9.0, the benefits of these two superb modeling environments are combined with the unrivalled strengths of the FloodWorks forecasting and warning system that is proven to protect property and save lives. This is another example of the value of Wallingford Software's breadth of development capability and its vision for integrated modeling."
Earlier releases of FloodWorks used radar data that had been pre-processed into sub-catchment rainfall time series. The new RADAR functionality in FloodWorks v9.0 directly reads raw RADAR images and processes the data into individual sub-catchment time series using polygons defined within FloodWorks configuration manager. Tyrone Parkinson says:
"This approach provides more flexibility to connect to a wider range of radar systems, particularly those that don't offer sub-catchment rainfall post processing. It also allows the user direct control over how the sub-catchment rainfall accumulation is performed and how the resultant rainfall time series may be merged with other rainfall sources."
A modular software package, FloodWorks is used extensively for the real-time simulation and forecasting of extreme hydrological and hydraulic conditions within river basins, drainage systems and the coastal zone. Since its launch in 2000 FloodWorks has become recognised as the most advanced real time flood forecasting application in the world with users across the world, particularly in Europe and South East Asia.
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Wallingford Software Releases Version 9.0 of InfoWorks
(Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:03:54 GMT)
Version 9.0 of InfoWorks, released today, provides ample evidence as to why Wallingford Software is widely regarded as the most innovative and technically advanced of all modeling software developers for the water industry.
In addition to major developments - such as the ability to model 2D flows using InfoWorks RS - InfoWorks v9.0 includes scores of enhancements that will improve personal productivity and performance.
In v9.0 for instance, users can export InfoWorks models and results to Google Earth format for sharing across the Internet.
InfoWorks v9.0 includes a wealth of improvements to all four products: InfoWorks CS for wastewater management and sewerage provision, SD for stormwater, WS for water distribution and supply and RS for river, channel and floodplain flows.
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- Will water be the oil of tomorrow? - With the water issue making
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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
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of Boenning & Scattergood, Inc., provides investors a vehicle for
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sectors. We believe that natural resources, and in particular water and
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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
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water, the treatment of water and the technology and services that are
directly related to global water consumption.
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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
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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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monitoring of a vast array of technology and service markets within the
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- Neil Berlant, First Vice President and Managing Director of the
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merchant and investment banking firm that specializes in serving the
myriad of companies that, in aggregate, comprise the water ‘industry’.
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