Clean Tech

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.

A team of clean energy researchers at the University of British Columbia has received a $500,000 grant to commercialize a new technology that converts excess carbon dioxide and wastewater from the oil and gas sector into reusable water and valuable chemicals.

Many of us take for granted that we aren’t infected with E. coli when we drink the water that comes out of our faucets.

Millions of people around the globe aren’t so lucky: They don’t have ready access to clean drinking water.

Five Montana Tech environmental engineering students are on a mission to change that. They have built a bicycle-powered water treatment system that can treat more than 800 gallons of water a day for pathogens.

Cementing their place as UK leaders in water quality measurement equipment, Partech have launched two innovative new products: an addition to their hugely successful WaterWatch² range and an easy to use Triple Validation Unit. 

Partech's first release adds to the pioneering WaterWatch² range. The WaterTechw² pH8000 Sensor is a specialised electrode to take pinpoint accurate pH and temperature readings across a range of water treatment scenarios. 

Only about half of the prescription drugs and other newly emerging contaminants in sewage are removed by treatment plants.

That’s the finding of a new report by the International Joint Commission, a consortium of officials from the United States and Canada who study the Great Lakes.