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Trending Technology

Solid-State Technology Answers Common Maintenance Problems
 
AquiSense’s PearlAqua™ is making the world’s first commercial UV-C LED disinfection system. The technology uses UV lamps for germicidal water disinfection. The system has a “tunable” wavelength (UV-C), consumes little energy and has reduced maintenance needs.
 
Detect Water Leakage with a Click of an App
 
Researchers of the HCM City University of Technology invented the application that identifies the location of the water leakage using GPS. Detecting and reporting the leakages in the water infrastructure would be efficient using this smartphone App.  
 
Estimating Water Usage Efficiency With Images
 
IBM’s ​Watson machine learning system uses areal and satellite images to estimate water usage and demand at ​the region ​of interest. It identifies important data, and after being given examples, figures out patterns on its own and is able to identify features.
 
Energy-Saving Filters for Waste Water Treatment
 
A ​nanofiltration hollow ​fibre membrane that combines ultrafiltration ​and reverse ​osmosis, while ​requiring very low water ​pressure is developed at ​Nanyang ​Technological ​University. ​It is manufactured ​using low-cost ​chemicals and reduces the ​energy needed ​to treat ​wastewater. 
 
 
Editor's Choice

The Water Network team interviews FATHOM's CEO Trevor Hill about the benefits of adopting IT solutions for utility management, such as FATHOM's platform, which offers end-to-end water utility management, which can be adopted as a whole or incrementally as needed.
Prakash Chandra Nayak wants to know what the minimum distance from the river for open defecation is and what the best costless sanitation for Indian villages is.
Victoria Obe would like to know if there are any connections between boreholes and earthquakes and whether there are effects of boreholes on the environment. 
Helen Clay-Chapman raises concerns about drinking water disasters and wonders if in order to save money the government in another country will make the same mistake.
Asit Biswas writes about our attitudes towards water. He believes the problem is not scarcity but mismanagement.
 
Featured Events

UWT China - Shanghai, China - 30 August - 02 September
This event will attract nearly 50,000 water engineers throughout China. It is a unique platform to promote new products and technologies in the water industry.
Istanbul Water Expo - Istanbul, Turkey - 1 - 3 September
This event focused on water and wastewater industry, will bring together a comprehensive range of the latest technologies and developments in sustainable utilization of water resources, water management, wastewater treatment and reuse of water.
 
Featured Jobs

Senior Compliance Analyst - Hach - Loveland, US
 
Water Audit Consultancy - UNICEF - Zimbabwe
 
Program Assistant, Climate & Water - Skoll Global Threats Fund - San Francisco, US
 
Internship - cewas middle east - Bern, Switzerland
 
V.P. Business Analytics & Development - Safe Water Network - New York, US
 

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