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Atlas Copco ranked 10 on the Global 100 list of sustainable companies

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Stockholm, Sweden, January 25, 2012: Atlas Copco has been ranked the world’s tenth most sustainable company in the annual Global 100 list, presented today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Atlas Copco is the highest ranked industrial company.

Nitrogen found in 75 per cent of wilderness lakes

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Nitrogen pollution has been found in the vast majority of remote mountain lakes of Europe and the Rocky Mountains, spreading concern over the extent of the human carbon footprint. The effects of pollu...

Greece failing to meet EU framework for bodies of water

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Recent research conducted by scientists at Thessaloniki University has revealed that none of the 15 large lakes in Greece can be considered healthy, Ansa Med have reported. The researchers have also e...

River Thames polluted beyond rescue

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The levels of nitrates in the River Thames are so high they might be beyond rescue, with environmental reporters suggesting a full scale change of land use and management would be required, which coul...

Fears of shale gas pollution in the UK

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Fears of shale gas pollution have been dismissed as 'extremely unlikely' in the UK, after local citizens expressed concern over two earthquakes that had been set off by fracking exploration, it has be...

AECOM Joint Venture Awarded 18 million Yorkshire Water Project

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AECOM along with Joint Venture Partner Galliford Try have secured an £18m contract to upgrade Woodhouse Mill Wastewater Treatment Works in Sheffield for Yorkshire Water. The purpose of the work is to...

Mercury to blame for the great dying

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Scientists probing ancient chemical deposits on the shores of a High Arctic lake have found that mercury was chiefly responsible for the 'great dying' that wiped out 90 per cent of the planet's specie...

Koch Membrane Systems to Install New Wastewater Recycling System in China

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Koch Membrane Systems, Inc. (KMS) has been selected to supply membranes for a large-scale wastewater recycling system for Yingkou Medium Plate Co., Ltd., in Yingkou City, Liaoning Province, China. The...

Launch of Xylem s Flygt Experior Delivers Energy Savings of up to 50 Percent Marking Breakthrough in Wastewater Pumping

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Xylem Inc., the global water technology company which spun off from ITT Corporation, has unveiled a revolutionary new wastewater pumping system, called Flygt Experior. By combining advances to its sta...

Bio-Microbics System NSF Certified for Water Reuse

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Bio-Microbics, a manufacturer of decentralized wastewater treatment technologies, is the first company to earn NSF®/ANSI® 350 certification for the Bio-Barrier® membrane bioreactor (MBR). NSF scientis...