BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Feb. 3, 2014) – Pumps & Systems, the leading magazine for pump users worldwide, is proud to announce the first installment of a four-part FREE Live Webinar Series, a partnership with the Submersible Wastewater Pump Association (SWPA), the educational leader and authoritative source for the submersible wastewater pump industry for more than three decades.

BALTIMORE (Jan. 31, 2014) – Danfoss has been recognized by a panel of ASHRAE members with a 2014 AHR Expo Innovation Award, refrigeration category, for its ADAP-KOOL System Manager – AK-SM 800 Series. This is the 16th AHR Expo Innovation Award that Danfoss has received in 11 years, including five honorable mentions and one Product of the Year award.

WASHINGTON (Jan. 30, 2014) – At the 14th National Conference and Global Forum on Science, Policy and the Environment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy announced grants to four research institutions for innovative and sustainable water research to manage harmful nutrient pollution. Nutrient pollution is one of America's most widespread, costly and challenging environmental problems, and is caused by excess nitrogen and phosphorus in waterways.

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland (Jan. 28, 2014) – Xylem won a contract valued at approximately $2.75 million to supply Xylem’s Wedeco-brand ultraviolet (UV) technologies to a wastewater treatment facility in the Vigo region of southwest Spain. With a treatment capacity of 147,000 cubic meters per day, benefiting 800,000 inhabitants, the facility will be the largest bio-filtration and UV wastewater treatment plant in Spain.

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland (Jan. 27, 2014) – Xylem Inc. played a key role in a recovery mission to stabilize a large cargo ship carrying 150,000 tons of coal that ran aground off the coast of South Africa. Xylem’s Flygt 2600 series pumps removed water from the ship and helped to stabilize it so that none of the 1,830 tons of heavy fuel oil onboard leaked into the sea or endangered the local environment.