Water Management

The Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers in India will set up a new Plastic Waste Management Center in New Delhi, similar to the one that has been set up in Guwahati, which has started functioning from August 2009.

Hanshin Water Supply Authority's Amagasaki Waterworks has taken delivery of Mitsubishi Electric’s ozone water treatment system comprising an ozone generator, a contact tank and an off-ozone gas destructor to provide purified water to the cities of Kobe, Amagasaki, Nishinomiya and Ashiya.

HaloSource, a clean water company, and DelAgua, a UK-based water testing organization, have entered into an agreement to develop an emergency response point-of-use drinking water device by utilizing HaloSource's HaloPure disinfection technology combined with its proprietary pre-treatment biopolymers.

Aqua Resources Holdings (ARHL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Aqua Resources Fund, has made a second tranche investment of approximately $2m in In-Pipe Technology Company, a developer of wastewater treatment technology.

Desal America, a provider of water treatment systems, has selected the Moss Landing Green Business Park in Moss Landing, California to locate its headquarters for the manufacturing and assembly of the containerized water treatment systems.

Tri-Tech Holding, a provider of sewage treatment and odor control systems for China's municipalities and cities, has secured an approximately $6m contract for the upgrade and expansion of a wastewater treatment plant in Kuitun City of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Dixon, Perot & Champion (DPC), a company that delivers earnings while providing its shareholders with equity-based consumables, and Water Solutionz Enterprises (WSEI) have joined forces to create mobile water reclamation systems called Powers units for the treatment of industrial wastewater and keeping toxins from contaminating the environment.

The City and County of Honolulu has reached a settlement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department, Hawaii Attorney General’s Office, Hawaii Department of Health, and three environmental groups, to upgrade its wastewater collection and treatment systems in compliance with Clean Water Act.

Kroff, a water treatment company in the US, has created Kroff Process Technologies (KPT) to provide proprietary industrial and commercial water treatment chemicals and technologies to the primary metals industry.

The Hamilton County District Court has ordered Welch Oil to upgrade the wastewater treatment system at the Boondocks Truck Stop near Williams and pay a penalty of $5,000 for illegally discharging wastewater to a tributary of the Skunk River and also failing to comply with monitoring requirements for its public water supply.