Clean Tech

The first bus in Britain powered entirely by human and food waste has made its first journey, gas used to run the bus is generated at the Bristol sewage treatment works, which is run by GENeco, a subsidiary of Wessex Water

Bio-Bus, a 40-seater shuttle service between Bath and Bristol Airport, can travel up to 186 miles on just one tank of gas.

Gas is generated through the treatment of sewage and food waste deemed unfit for human consumption.

Kenyan student convert's school's poop into safe, clean fuel the system is “an underground chamber holds the human, animal, and kitchen excrement, while microorganisms go to work breaking down the muck. This process releases biogas, a source of renewable energy

In 2006, California voters approved Proposition 84, a $5.4 billion bond measure that has since helped to protect Watsonville sloughs, rebuild a jetty walk at the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor and start building a new park in Santa Cruz' Lower Ocean Street neighborhood.

newterra, a global leader in designing and manufacturing modular water treatment systems, announced today that it has acquired the business of Crane Water from diversified industrial manufacturer, Crane Co.

newterra, a privately held Canadian company, adds the US-based maker of water treatment equipment to its sales/engineering and manufacturing facilities in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. The move brings its employee count to almost 250 people worldwide.

A modular MEMCOR ultra filtration membrane system has been installed at the United Utilities treatment works in Rochdale.

The new membrane combines two stages of water treatment in one micro membrane filtration unit and now delivers high quality water to Rochdale.

The system is a pressurised and pre-engineered system. The system incorporates automated processes including backwashing to remove built up solids from membrane surfaces at regular intervals as well as an in built cleaning and membrane testing integrity.

Two engineering graduates from Makerere University have developed pit latrine emptying technology to promote sanitation in slums.
The new technology dubbed the ‘rammer’ is locally manufactured by Ugandan artisans at a cost-friendly price.

The designers of the technology want to boost pit emptying entrepreneurs by easing the way of doing their business. The technology uses less energy to pump sewerage from the pits.