Vegetables Grown Using Recycled Water Show Discolouration And Stunted Growth
AUSTRALIA - Vegetables grown using recycled effluent from the Werribee treatment plant have suffered discolouration and stunted growth.
The mystery has sparked an investigation by one of the state's major water authorities, Southern Rural Water.
It comes less than two years after many growers in Werribee switched to using treated sewage on their farms at the suggestion of Water Minister John Thwaites.
The situation has been reported to Victoria's Chief Health Officer, Dr Robert Hall, who said yesterday he was confident there was no immediate danger to people eating produce from the area.
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Asia Water Wins Deals For 37 Water Treatment Projects In China
Sesdaq-listed Asia Water Technology has clinched 37 water treatment projects in China amounting to 550 million yuan, or about S$110 million, in the last 11 months.
21 of the contracts are for water purification treatment plants in China, and 13 for automation and control projects.
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38 Bln Tons Of Waste Water Flows Into China's Three Major Rivers Last Year
Over 38 billion tons of waste water flowed into China's three major rivers, the Yangtze, Yellow and Huaihe rivers in 2005, according to a series of recently released reports on the country's water resources.
The Yangtze River, the country's longest, had 29.6 billion tonsof waste water dumped in it last year, including 20.4 billion tonsof industrial waste water, according to a report released by the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission.
More than 4.35 billion tons of waste water were dumped into theYellow River, China's second longest, last year, an increase over the previous year, according to the Yellow River Water Resources Commission.
For more information, please visit: China Economic Net
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Nation's First Physical Security Standard Guidelines for Water/Wastewater Utilities
The nation's first standard guidelines for protecting the public from potential malevolent acts and other threats by enhancing the physical security of water and wastewater infrastructure systems were released today for trial use by water and wastewater utilities.
The voluntary standard guidelines-jointly developed by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Water Works Association (AWWA) with technical input from the Water Environment Federation (WEF)-are the result of Phase III of the Water Infrastructure Security Enhancements (WISE) program. They were created under ASCE's American National Standards Institute-accredited standards development program.
Titled "Guidelines for the Physical Security of Water Utilities" and "Guidelines for the Physical Security of Wastewater/Stormwater Utilities," the draft guidelines are open for public comment and trial use until June 30, 2007.
For more information, please visit: Water Environment Federation
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Water War Brewing Along Mexico-California Border
The Bush administration is urging a federal appeals court to allow part of a canal separating California and Mexico to be lined with concrete to stop millions of gallons of water from seeping south of the border.
ADVERTISEMENT A lawsuit seeking to block the project argues that shutting off that seepage would be detrimental to farmers and others in Mexico.
The lining is proposed along a portion of the 82-mile All-American Canal that delivers Colorado River water to crop land on both sides of the border about 100 miles east of San Diego.
The U.S. government says Mexico already gets 489 billion gallons of Colorado River water legitimately each year under a 1944 treaty and isn't entitled to the seepage, which provides a farming lifeline in Mexico.
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