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Exploring the Field of Environ Engineering: Safeguarding Our Planet for Future Generations

The Environmental Blog

Air Quality Control : Environmental engineers devise strategies to monitor and improve air quality. They use technologies such as electrostatic precipitators, scrubbers, and catalytic converters to capture or reduce harmful pollutants before they are released into the atmosphere.

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Utilities should embrace technology providers in AMP8

Envirotec Magazine

As the demands of AMP8 and the ambitious targets of The Environment Act come into focus, water companies need to embrace technology companies much more readily, says Andrew Welsh. Andrew Welsh is water utilities director at Xylem Water Solutions UK & Ireland. That comes on top of the £5.2

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Comment: Smart water reuse and flood management technology “could be a vital strategic water asset”

Envirotec Magazine

Comment from water technology firm SDS. Water infrastructure planners should aim to exploit emergent digitally-controlled rainwater storage and recycling technologies to contribute substantially to water demand reduction targets, as well as reducing flood and pollution risks, say experts. Proven successes already. “In

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Norwegian utility claims to calculate true cost of sewer ingress

Envirotec Magazine

Inflow of stormwater and infiltration of groundwater into sewers is a constant operational challenge, but a water utility in Norway is gaining better understanding of its network with an innovative digital approach, says Marco Westergren, chief analytics officer at water analytics platform provider InfoTiles.

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Water innovation recognised at Edinburgh awards ceremony

Envirotec Magazine

Technologies included water reuse, water recovery through zero liquid discharge and digital stormwater management. A documentary charting water scarcity and a collaborative accelerator programme for technology startups were also award winners.

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Safeguarding tech on trial

Envirotec Magazine

Digital technology company InfoTiles has won the opportunity to demonstrate its water management platform – which helps guard against I&I – with a municipality in western Switzerland. The BlueArk Challange is a call for projects that aim to solve water management challenges using open innovation ideas and technologies.

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As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts

Grist

But climate control represents a particularly bedeviling problem, since more energy use contributes to climate change, which in turn causes greater temperature extremes that necessitate even more energy use to maintain a controlled indoor environment (sometimes known as the “doom loop” of AC ).