ATLANTA (May 18, 2016) - Siemens is providing critical power infrastructure technology to upgrade the Chicago Department of Water’s South Water Purification plant that will save the city up to $4 million a year in energy and maintenance costs. The technology, including medium-voltage switchgear and control, low-voltage switchgear and power transformers, will allow the plant to distribute power more efficiently to key process points throughout the plant to keep water flowing.
LONDON (May 17, 2016) -- Omnix International, the provider of technology-enabled solutions to the Middle East, and AVEVA, a global engineering software provider, have announced a formal business partnership. The alliance has been created specifically to address the increasingly complex needs of the oil and gas industry in the KSA, Kuwait and Qatar region.
WASHINGTON (May 17, 2016) – A Dix Hills, New York, high school senior has won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Patrick H. Hurd Sustainability Award for a project currently providing clean drinking water affordably to a community in Kenya.
The world is facing a water crisis. Population is growing, droughts are lasting longer and access to clean water is scarce or non-existent for hundreds of millions of people.