Source: CVILLE TOMORROW

An updated Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority capital improvement plan would cut the one adopted last year by 23 percent to $155.3 million, officials said Tuesday.

Source: AZoNano      By Will Soutter

Introduction to Water Treatment

Water treatment encompasses several industrial-scale processes that are used to make water acceptable for specific applications such as for drinking water, industrial use, medical use, and many others. The key objective of all water treatment processes is the removal of contaminants, or at least reduction of the concentration of these contaminants so that water becomes suitable for a specific end-use.

Source: TheEpochtimes    By Veronica Wong

Zhao Feihung is the chairman of the Safe Drinking Water Committee at the Beijing Health Care Association. Her husband works in the National Development and Reform Commission’s Public Nutrition and Development Center. Together, this Beijing couple has not drunken any of the city’s tap water in over 20 years, reported China’s Southern Weekly. Said the 58-year old Zhao, “Out of all the households in Beijing, ours probably knows about the drinking water here the best.”

Source: Global Times

A city in North China's Hebei Province is to resume pumping water from a reservoir into the water supply system after it confirmed the water was not contaminated by a recent chemical leak from neighboring Shanxi Province.

Source: Global Times  By Liu Linlin

Workers build a network of dams made of activated carbon to intercept aniline from flowing downstream at the border of Hebei, Henan and Shanxi provinces Monday, after some 9 tons of aniline was leaked from a chemical plant in Shanxi on December 31.

Source: TheNational

ABU DHABI // Wastewater dumped in the sea from oil refineries has successfully been treated to remove all its harmful chemicals.

Researchers at UAE University have developed a Dh4.5 million plant in Al Ruwais, 240 kilometres west of Abu Dhabi, to treat water from the country's largest oil refinery.

Source: KHQA Newsdesk

HANNIBAL, MO. -- Last week the Hannibal Board of Public Works started getting calls for funny tasting and smelling water, similar to the calls in Quincy.

That's not completely surprising since both communities draw their raw water from the Mississippi River.

Those calls increased over the weekend.

Source: WorldNow and Quincy Herald-Whig   By Matt Hof

The city of Quincy continues to treat its water with activated carbon powder to remove an “earthy” taste and smell that has persisted for more than a week in the city’s drinking water.

City officials said the problem should have been fixed last week, but complaints continue, though David Kent, the director of utilities, says they have subsided a bit.

The problem is because of an increase in algae entering the system, which is being caused by the current stage and slow movement of the Mississippi River.

Source: SciDev.Net

Date palm leaves — currently a waste product of date farming — could be used to remove pharmaceutical chemicals and dyes from hospital wastewater, say researchers from Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in Oman. The first hospital wastewater treatment pilot project is due to start in Oman early next year, and scientists are working to use this technology in both drinking water filters and for industrial wastewater treatment.

Source: PRWeb 

China's demand for water treatment chemicals has grown at a fast pace in the past decade. In the next five years, both production and demand will continue to grow. This new study examines China's economic trends, investment environment, industry development, supply and demand, industry capacity, industry structure, marketing channels and major industry participants. Historical data (2001, 2006 and 2011) and long-term forecasts through 2016 and 2021 are presented. Major producers in China are profiled.