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		<title>GLOBAL: Ministers commit to making Rio +20 a practical success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Environment ministers from around the world gathered last week to discuss the Rio +20 conference, and pledged to ensure that there are concrete outcomes from that event.]]></description>
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		<title>US: AWWA finds cost of potable water repairs and expansions will top one trillion dollars</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The cost of repairing and expanding potable water infrastructure in the US will top $1 trillion in the next 25 years, according to an American Water Works Association (AWWA) study.]]></description>
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		<title>KOREA: Joint LG-Hitachi water treatment company launches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[LG Electronics (LG) and Hitachi Plant Technologies have named two senior executives to run their joint venture water treatment company, which started operations at the beginning of February.]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Defra group looks to fund R&D addressing water security challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Defra, the Technology Strategy Board, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are to stimulate innovation in the UK water industry by funding research and development that will address overseas and UK water security challenges.]]></description>
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		<title>US: EPA funds university to monitor marine debris</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The US Environmental Protection Agency has provided $15,000 in funding to the University of Hawaii to further research efforts on marine debris.]]></description>
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		<title>PORTUGAL: SIPOS actuators installed on major water system</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Electric actuators from SIPOS Aktorik have been installed at a major water system in Portugal.]]></description>
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		<title>US: EPA provides water and wastewater funding for Guam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The US Environmental Protection Agency has awarded over $6.7 million as part of its annual grant to the Guam Waterworks Authority to improve drinking water and wastewater systems on the island.]]></description>
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		<title>INDIA: Report finds desal is set to undergo a boom due to industrial demand</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[A report from TechSci Research says that India's desalination business is set to triple to $1.2 billion by 2017 as rising demand from industry spurs construction of these systems.]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Drought summit hears of likely need for drought orders</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[UK environment secretary Caroline Spelman held a drought summit on Monday as it becomes clear parts of England are facing a drought that could be as severe as that of 1976.]]></description>
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		<title>JAPAN: Veolia Water Japan wins potable water contracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Veolia Water Japan, a sister company of Veolia Water, has announced that it has won three operations and maintenance contracts for potable water in Japan.]]></description>
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		<title>EUROPE: Veolia launches mobile ultrafiltration unit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies has announced that it is launching the Aquamove MOFI-UF-65C, its first ultrafiltration mobile unit, which is now available in Europe for industrial water treatment.]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Data shows clear link between lack of watsan and deaths</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In a paper published in the UK journal Environmental Health, researchers at the UN University and McMaster University analysed data on access to safe water and adequate sanitation across 193 countries, concluding using regression analysis techniques to filter out other variables, that countries ranked in the bottom 25% in terms of safe water had about 4.7 more deaths per 1000 children under five compared to countries in the top 25%.]]></description>
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		<title>News in brief 14 February 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[News briefs from 14 February 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>GLOBAL: World Bank book stresses need for flood risk management</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[A new World Bank guide book says urban flooding is a serious and growing development challenge for fast-growing low- and middle-income countries in East Asia, underscoring an urgent need to build flood risk management into regular planning of cities and towns.]]></description>
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		<title>AUSTRALIA: Dam inquiry hears backing for engineers' strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wivenhoe Dam inquiry continued last week, hearing evidence in support of the four engineers and their use of the strategies for releasing water as the rainfall grew more intense.]]></description>
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		<title>US: Huntingdon Beach desal plant clears board approval</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The move to construct a desalination plant at Huntingdon Beach in southern California cleared a vital hurdle last week as the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board cleared the proposal.]]></description>
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		<title>US: Tiocco provides portable filtration solution for cement wastewaters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[US-based filtration systems company Tiocco has provided a southern California cement company with a portable filtration system for treating cement wastewaters.]]></description>
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		<title>US: Meurer opts for Allen-Bradley controller from Rockwell Automation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In a redesign and upgrade to the control equipment on one of its ten-plate settler pilot treatment units, which can be provided to municipalities to evaluate their clarification and sludge removal capabilities, Meurer Research has replaced its existing microprocessor with an Allen-Bradley MicroLogix 1400 programmable logic controller (PLC) from Rockwell Automation.]]></description>
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		<title>CANADA: Ottawa wastewater upgrade gets energy grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Ottawa, in Canda, has been given a CAN$250,000 ($250,000) grant by the Clean Energy Community Foundation towards the cost of a comprehensive wastewater treatment plant upgrade.]]></description>
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		<title>THE LEBANON: Government signs up to loan for water supply project</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The Lebanese government has signed up to a $200 million loan from the World Bank as part of the financing for a project that will supply Beirut with water from the Awali river.]]></description>
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