Evoqua acquires Olson Irrigation Systems.
Olson will become a part of Evoqua’s Aquatics and Disinfection (A&D) division and will help the business build upon its leadership position in filtration serving a broad range of industrial applications.
The Olson business is also a major supply partner to Evoqua’s VAF product line, which is also a part of the Aquatics and Disinfection division.
Olson, founded in 1976, serves two primary markets: agricultural irrigation and industrial process through direct and third-party representatives.
Olson designs and develops a wide-range of solutions for the irrigation and industrial markets, allowing the company to turn ideas into products quickly for their customer base.
"We are very pleased to strengthen that relationship and to work even closer to drive growth across a variety of key markets."
The three are world leaders in wastewater solutions for industrial and manufacturing applications.
About Evoqua Evoqua Water Technologies is the global leader in helping municipalities and industrial customers protect and improve the world’s most fundamental natural resource: water.
Evoqua has a more than 100-year heritage of innovation and industry firsts, market-leading expertise, and unmatched customer service, where it continues to transform water and wastewater.
For more information, visit www.evoqua.com.

Las Vegas, Marrakech, Malta, Casablanca – managing dwindling resources in water scarce cities.
The Water Scarce Cities Initiative (WSC) is a pioneering World Bank global program that connects diverse stakeholders to share their experiences in bolstering integrated approaches for water security and climate resilience.
With its sights set on collective progress, WSC partnered with the 5 + 5 group for the Water Strategy in the Western Mediterranean (WSWM) to hold a Regional Water Scarce Cities Workshop in Casablanca, Morocco from May 22-23, 2017.
Malta Desalinates to Meet Demand and Encourages Youth Engagement The Mediterranean island of Malta, like most semi-arid countries in the region, is characterized by low rainfall and the country lacks perennial surface water bodies.
Today, the Malta Water Services Corporation is looking at new options, such as wastewater reuse, potentially both for agriculture and aquifer recharge, as well as rainwater harvesting.
Las Vegas Shows the Importance of Changing Mindsets In 1905, Las Vegas began to emerge as a rest stop and railroad town between California and Salt Lake City.
Although situated on the floor of the Mojave Desert with a meager average of 100 mm annual precipitation, Las Vegas saw its population and tourism-based economy mushroom into the mélange of hotels, casinos, and golf resorts that it is today.
Both Malta and Las Vegas have demonstrated that resilience is achieved by diversifying resources through measures such as rainwater harvesting, seawater desalination, wastewater reuse, aquifer management, cross-sectoral water trading, leakage reduction, and conservation.
Malta and Las Vegas, as well as Barcelona and many other global urban centers, offer valuable first-hand experience in overcoming these challenges, implementing context-appropriate solutions, and developing the technical and institutional capacity to achieve water security.
To learn more about how the innovative management of water scarcity in places like Malta can serve WB client countries, read more about WSC in the case of Marrakesh here, OC here, and about the overall Water Scarce Cities Initiative here.

25 cows die at government facility in Haryana allegedly due to lack of access to fodder, heavy rain.
At least 25 cows have died at a government facility in Haryana’s Kurukshetra because of an alleged lack of access to fodder after incessant showers hit the region, PTI reported.
The cattle were trapped in the facility after the rain caused water-logging in the shelter in Mathana village.
Sub-Divisional Magistrate Narinder Pal Malik directed the management to transfer the sick cattle to another shelter in Karnal.
He added the village panchayat and state animal husbandry department were running the shelter.
Contradicting him, former president of the Shri Krishan Gaushala that provides fodder to the shelter Ashok Papneja said the shelter lacks proper facilities.
“There is no fodder and drinking water available for so many cows,” he told PTI.
Groups of cow vigilantes have resorted to attacking people suspected to be transporting beef or cattle.
Protection of cattle has triggered heated debates across the country as right-wing groups are using violence to propagate their beliefs.
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A row over London Underground drivers’ water breaks is threatening to cause Tube delays this summer.
Case in point: the rush hour troubles for those at Waterloo and Paddington this week.
And the high temperatures are also felt by drivers.
But train drivers’ union Aslef has warned of additional delays for passengers this summer, claiming that the removal of water facilities for staff means drivers will be more likely to take unscheduled breaks.
“TfL rightly reminds passengers to carry water with them in hot weather, but at the same time they are taking away the facilities where drivers can get water from during their duties.” The inevitable result will be that drivers will be forced to take additional unscheduled breaks, to avoid the serious dangers of dehydration.
However, TfL said all of its staff had access to water when needed.
A TfL spokesperson said: We fully appreciate the need for our staff to have access to clean drinking water.
That’s why, despite changes to our water cooler contract, every single member of our staff has access to clean water whenever they need it be it from a water cooler or tap as you’d have at home.
If our staff have any concerns, we will of course respond to those taking any appropriate action.
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HGS ties up with Jaldhaara Foundation.
Hinduja Global Solutions Limited has tied up with Jaldhaara Foundation to provide access to safe and clean drinking water to underserved communities in Bengaluru.
Through this tie-up, HGS will set up three WaterHealth centers in the city by August 2017, with the first being inaugurated at Hosur Road, Bengaluru on July 6.
Specific to Bengaluru, a report submitted to the World Bank by Karnataka Slum Clearance Board said that the city accounts for 862 slums out of 2,000 slums in Karnataka.
Over 60% of these slums lack water supply lines and are served by intermittent Bengaluru Water Supply and Sanitation Board (BWSSB) tankers and community piped water supply.
The HGS – sponsored WaterHealth centers are being set up by Jaldhaara along with technical partner WaterHealth India (WHIN).
Leveraging WHIN’s award-winning water purification and disinfection technology, the centers are expected to provide safe drinking water to approximately 90,000 – 100,000 people within a radius of 5-10 kms.
The production of water can be optimized depending on the needs of the community.
The resultant reduction of water-borne diseases can help decrease women drudgery, improve children’s health and reduce absenteeism at school and work.
We believe that access to clean water will help pave the path for a healthier society and their economic development.” “This tie-up is an opportunity for Jaldhaara Foundation (JF) to celebrate and reaffirm our commitment to working together with various corporates and development partners.

There have now been enough human development reports published for the UNDP to review progress made in terms of human development over the past quarter of a century.
While much still needs to be done, progress in terms of improving incomes, literacy and health around the world has been impressive.
Vulnerable groups, including women and girls, ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, and migrants, are all still struggling to secure their most basic needs.
More than a billion people are estimated to live with some form of disability, and these people are among the most marginalised within their respective societies.
The largest difference is in South Asia, where women are still being discriminated against with respect to control over productive assets, such as the right to own land and property.
Only 10–20% of landholders in developing countries are women.
Achieving human development goals requires addressing the structural challenges of the current global system.
Besides increasing the voice of developing countries in multilateral organisations like the IMF and the World Bank, these institutions must begin applying fair trade and investment rules.
Consider, for instance, the US government’s decision to pull out of the climate change agreement and to curb its aid commitments.
Despite these setbacks, other bilateral and multilateral development actors can continue evolving their human development approaches, and the UNDP has provided very relevant steps which must be taken for humanity to keep moving forward.

This technology is known as GalMobile, and it is a sea water purification machine at a mobile desalination plant.
Interestingly, this Jeep carries the whole mobile desalination plant.
What exactly does the GalMobile jeep do?
The mobile plant can purify up to 20,000 litres of sea water a day and 80,000 litres of brackish, muddy or contaminated river water and bring it to WHO standards.
The main goal of the machine is to deliver “Potable drinking water- from any source, anytime, anywhere.” Israel’s technology is a source of envy for many world nations.
This is a mobile purification plant, described by Netanyahu as “Future Jeep”.
India faces quite a bad water situation, as a large part of the population does not have access to proper drinking water.
This GalMobile-like technology can be a huge help to India, especially since the country has a large part of its borders, linked to seas and oceans.
It is an Independent energy source.
The jeep runs on a mere 12V low voltage system.

In which we ponder shoreline shuffles, eating Lake Ontario and the wise Grandmother Water Walkers.
Like the Mother Earth Water Walkers — those Indigenous women who started walking around the Great Lakes in 2003.
They recently stopped in Kingston, having started their 2009 walk down the St. Lawrence right here on the downtown waterfront.
A recent report on threats to Canada’s water by the World Wildlife Fund features charming little icons to guide the reader through the scientific complexity.
The “invasive species” threat is signalled by a fish with a slash through it.
The Kingston sub-watershed threat level?
Kingston’s threat level?
“Very high.” Then there’s water use.
The symbol, not surprisingly, is a faucet.
Mass freshwater removals can reduce a watershed’s capacity to sustain vital ecosystem processes, wildlife and habitat.

Lucindale Area School captains pushing for rainwater access.
Local Business Lucindale Area School has several full rainwater tanks on its campus, but due to a number of restrictions, staff and students are are only permitted to drink bore water at school.
When the Safe Drinking Water Act was introduced in 2011, the supply of rainwater to Lucindale Area School was cut off, forcing staff and students to find alternative options.
With the help of people within the local community, school captains Elinor Leake and Shelby Ferguson have created a petition in a bid to allow the consumption of rainwater on campus.
“We are wasting good quality rainwater and students are being exposed to below regulation bore water, that is not guaranteed as safe.” After conducting some research, Elinor and Shelby found that bore water’s chloride residual levels and dissolved solids levels fluctuate frequently, despite SA Water deeming bore water safe to drink.
“According to SA Water, bore water has the ability to fluctuate in these specific areas meaning that students are often potentially exposed to unsafe levels of chloride residual, water hardness and undissolved solids within the bore water,” they said.
“We could be drinking water that is deemed unsafe one day and then safe the next, so it’s really hard to control.” Elinor and Shelby have already gathered around 200 signatures on their petition, but are hoping to gain more support from the wider community.
“We’ve spoken to Member for Barker Tony Pasin about the issue and he’s given us some advice and direction to move forward,” they explained.
“We’re currently writing letters to give to certain members of the government and we hope to have that underway very soon.” The two students also stressed that the issue was also affecting other schools around the SE.
They end up going without water and so they become very dehydrated,” Elinor and Shelby explained.

West Cedar Street water main line replacement begins Monday.
Starting Monday, crews will begin the process of replacing the water main line on a portion of West Cedar Street.
The project is scheduled to last four weeks on Cedar Street between Pole Line Road and Moreland Avenue.
Crews will work between the hours of 7 a.m. to approximately 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
During the project, access to the construction area will be restricted and sections of the street will be completely closed while workers are digging.
Parking will also be restricted in the construction zone and residents are asked to park all vehicles away from the area during the day.
At the close of each day, access will be restored to all properties.
The work may cause short-term disruptions to water service.
Officials ask parents and guardians to warn children about the safety hazard and to have them stay a safe distance from the construction area.
Residents who have questions about this or any Water Department projects can contact department staff at 208-234-6182.