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Yes they do and the fact that this is such a low floater it would not take much for this to take off. Waiting patiently for updates for BC sites.
Every year, about 110,000 children under the age of five die of water borne diseases in Bangladesh due to lack of sanitation, leading English newspaper The Daily Star reported Sunday.
According to official health statistics, 65 million children under five in the country are affected by water borne diseases because of lack of sanitation annually, the newspaper said.
The UN sources said under the global scenario of urbanization and population growth are threatening one of the UN's most ambitious millennium development goals. The UN had hoped to halve the number of people without access to clean drinking water and sanitation by 2015.
But, progress has slowed due to population increases and unexpectedly high migration to urban areas, the World Health Organization and the United Nations International Children's Emergence Fund (UNICEF) said.
They estimated some 2.6 billion people worldwide have no sanitation and every year 1.6 million children under the age of five die because of such a lack of access
Got stopped out, watching again.
Yep, holding strong here.
It's in the IBOX that a split was filed.
Thanks, I don't think anyone knew that there was an RS looming here.
Right, just have to wait and see if they have. NO ONE knows what they have done concerning this issue yet.
Why would you have to wait for summer to have overheating problems? If the overheating is such an issue I am sure it is not a seasonal problem.
Would make sense if they did. Especially if the overheating problem was as severe and big an issue that everyone is complainig about it.
Has anyone thought that maybe, just maybe, there is an alternative to this open vent to solve the overheating problem?
You know it.
Just a matter of time for that.
Agreed, I am sure we will be getting some updates ont he following before to long. These prices are a gift for the long term here.
11/19 PR
Purio's Direct Water Distribution Division Writes First Contracts
Daryl English, President of Purio, says, "We have now officially set sail into the marketplace. Businesses are motivated in many ways to take action and upgrade their office water service from bottle-style dispensers to modern point-of-use (POU) water purifiers and totally do away with bottled water delivery. In today's economy, the first motivation is cost cutting and we can often cut the monthly water budget by over 25%. Our primary objective is to let the world of business offices know how we can help.
Even at this early stage, we have written our first 3 contracts, and more quotes are in the pipeline waiting for approval. One of the quotes is to a multi-campus educational institution."
"We have an arrangement with a national finance company that gives us a cash payment on opening of a contract, and also provides us with ownership of the equipment when the original term is amortized. We then can look forward to a residual-style income from the equipment, which has a life expectancy far beyond the lease," continues English.
11/18 PR
Purio Accepts West African Leaders' Invitation to Present Technology
Daryl English, President of Purio, says, "Developing countries are well aware that a most important factor influencing their populations' ability to prosper is good health. Clean, safe water is at the top of their list of priorities in that quest, and that's where Purio comes in. Our technology is designed to be versatile so that it can be deployed to either drinking water purification, or wastewater treatment. That versatility, along with the energy efficiency, offers a combination of benefits that are very attractive. We look forward to this meeting as a first step toward the development of productive and long-lasting relationships in West Africa so that together, we may accomplish this all-important task."
Morning Stevo.
All UltraSafe systems are based on four filtration stages plus UV disinfection:
Stage 1: The sedimentation filter removes the "largest" impurities like, for example any kind of precipitate / un-dissolved solids, "twigs, branches, dead mosquitoes" and alike. This "rough" preliminary filter significantly extends the life of the filters in the next stages.
Stage 2: The carbon filter very finely porous structure provides a vast surface on which numerous compounds get adsorbed. The main product eliminated at this stage is the residues of Chlorine used for disinfection of the municipal water.
Stage 3: The Reverse Osmosis membrane eliminates over 90% of residual organic molecules (remnants of un-metabolized drugs, personal care and other cosmetic products, etc.), bacteria, viruses, amoeba, giardia, etc. that may be present in the common drinking water.
Stage 4: A second carbon filter that catches by adsorption any additional organic or inorganic (chlorine) chemicals that may have somehow passed the previous filters.
In addition: The "Point-of-Use" standing unit incorporates a
Stage 5: A UV lamp. The lamp which is triggered every time a cup of water is being filled (as well as every four hours on the weekends when there is no frequent usage), kills any and all living organism that might have either passed the membrane or would have been accidentally introduced into the main storage tank.
The five stages ensure that you always get the best quality, best tasking and purest possible water, chilled or hot.
UltraSafe is marketing two Reverse Osmosis purified water systems:
The "Point-of-Use" unit delivering chilled, hot, (and room temperature when mixed) drinking water.
The unit delivers chilled and hot water. The hot water is suitable for preparation of tea, instant coffee or soup. A lock can be used to lock the hot water so should children be around, they cannot get scolded by hot water.
The unit can be readily connected to the icemaker. Ice cubes made of RO purified water do not contain any chlorine and thus all the fine flavors and aromas of your favorite scotch are fully preserved!
The "Under-the-Sink" room temperature only filtration unit.
These units are placed under the sink. These units deliver water of the same quality but only at room temperature.
Both units are based on 4 stages filtration systems. The "Point-of-Use" unit incorporates a stage 5 disinfection by ultraviolet light.
Blue is the new green
How water is becoming the next coveted commodity
Karen Mazurkewich, Financial Post
Published: Friday, February 22, 2008
Tim Stobbs is obsessing over water. When the 29-year-old engineer purchased his first home last summer, he sought ways to shave his monthly costs. After tackling his electrical, heating and cable expenses, he turned to his water bill. Mr. Stobbs replaced the old 13-litre flush toilets in his house with six-litre models and installed outdoor drums to collect rainwater for his yard.
He managed to shave $5 a month off his water bill, but wants to get it down even lower now that the city of Regina has implemented a 9% hike on its water consumption rate to pay for service upgrades.
"Canada has had dirt-cheap water for so long, most don't understand the true cost of it," says Mr. Stobbs. When everyone's bills start increasing, he says more Canadians will start scrutinizing their consumption.
Traditionally, water bills have been ridiculously low in Canada, representing a fraction of a family's monthly expenses. But as municipalities struggle to fix crumbling pipes and waste-water facilities, cheap water is becoming a thing of the past.
For consumers, that means another assault on the pocketbook. For engineering firms and investors, it's a brave new world of opportunities, with projects ranging from reconstructing old treatment systems to the construction of new residential subdivisions and desalination plants.
The United Nations estimates that 1.1 billion people lack access to potable water and that by 2050 that figure will double to more than two billion. Add climate change to the mix and the predictions of water shortage become more dire.
So, it's not surprising that when it comes to investment trends, blue is the new green.
'For more on the FP water series see Saturday's print edition'
But just how far will countries go in privatizing - and commoditizing - water assets and how will it effect both investors and consumers?
Craig Donohue, chief executive of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, hinted back in October that water may become commoditized and traded as a futures contract. That prediction has not yet materialized, but Benjamin Tal, analyst at CIBC World Markets, believes the private sector will play an increasingly larger role in water delivery.
Europe has been a leader in the development and utilization of water assets, and long-term investors such as the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have snapped up shares in privatized utilities such as U.K.-based Anglian Water. In the United States, water markets are also emerging. In some western states, water rights have been traded through private transactions and small water utility operations are up for sale.
Canadian companies are getting a stake in the U.S. action. Quebec-based H20 Innovation, a company that manufacturers water membrane filtration systems, has seen its sales nearly double over the past year and its backlog of orders have quadrupled, primarily because of demand in California, Texas and Florida, according to Frédéric Dugré, president and chief executive. With predictions that the U.S. will spend $53-billion in water treatment spending over the next decade, Mr. Dugré is bullish about his company's continued growth.
Seven years ago, Mississauga-based Algonquin Power made its first foray into the water space when it purchased a small utility in Phoenix. Today, Algonquin owns 17 water facilities in the U.S. serving 61,000 customers. "There's a lot of growth, particularly in the new residential areas," says executive director David Kerr.
In Canada, ownership of water assets is off-limits, but a handful of municipalities are forming partnerships with private firms to share the up front cost of infrastructure and operations. One of the reasons Canada is slow to embrace public-private partnerships is because the municipalities are small - most water systems service communities less than 10,000 people - and they lack expertise, according to Gregory Smith, the Toronto-based managing director of Macquarie North America Ltd.'s Capital Funds Division, an investor in water. "One of the challenges is that people are used to paying the cost of the services and not the cost of the infrastructure underlying the service," he says. It's going to take time to change the mindset.
But there is another reason why Canada is dragging its feet: Fear of turning such an important resource over to Big Business.
"There is a lot of emotion around the sale of water," says Brett Hodson, chief executive and president of Vancouver-based water utilities company Corix. He thinks the fears are unfounded. "There is an abundance of water in the world, just not enough fresh water." Companies like Corix don't want to own the water resources, they only want to own the treatment and delivery service, he adds.
Having a handful of specialized private companies dealing in waste-water treatment and water delivery is more efficient than having hundreds of municipalities trying to manage it, says Mr. Hodson, whose company is principally owned by CAI Capital Management Inc. and the BC Investment Management Corporation (BCIMC).
Mr. Hodson points to a deal Corix signed several years ago with the City of Langford in British Columbia, which quickly needed a new sewer system to handle its rapid growth. What would have taken the community 10 years to build, Corix did in two, says Mr. Hodson. Although the up front cost was $30-million, "we froze their sewer rates for five years," he says. The fees will increase later, but only at a rate equal to or less than the cost-of-living, he adds.
While public-private partnerships come in all shapes and forms, Mr. Hodson believes private ownership of utilities is better than the traditional model that relies on housing developers to build new infrastructure. Under this scenario, the developer has no incentive to build a long-lasting system, says Mr. Hodson. "They do it at the lowest possible cost because they have no chance to recoup their [infrastructure] costs and so you get an asset that 30 years later is decrepit," he says. Instead, Mr. Hodson advocates selling the asset to a private company that will install good pipes and waste-water facilities and charge the people who are using the service a monthly, regulated, fee.
Not everyone is buying the argument. Groups such as the Council for Canadians are against privatization of water systems. In press releases they've criticized the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board's stake in Anglian Water arguing that, "in the first five years after the British water system was privatized, 18,636 households were disconnected from their supply [and] prices rose by 50% while directors' fees, salaries and bonuses increased between 50% to 200%."
The water issue is muddied by the fact that most municipalities don't have the money or manpower to deal with infrastructure projects. Take the town of Riverside-Albert in New Brunswick. The 400 residents have been waiting more than four years for a solution to their poor drinking supply. They've been forced to boil water or buy bottled water until their new water treatment facility, funded through a new Canada-New Brunswick Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund, is completed. And having a public system hasn't saved them from huge hikes: Water rates have jumped from $19 to more than $200 per year.
Bad infrastructure has made Charlie Bagnato, the mayor of the Municipality of Brockton, Ont., a poster boy for public-private partnerships. In May, 2000, deadly E. coli bacteria spread through the water supply in the town of Walkerton, which is in the Brockton municipality, causing the death of seven people. The tainted water supply was sourced to a contaminated well. In the first few years following the scandal, the government appointed a private firm to replace the disgraced Walkerton utilities commission. Since then, Mr. Bagnato put out a competitive tender and hired a new contractor, the French multinational firm Veolia, to run the water and waste-water treatment system. He's saved $1.5-million on the new five-year contract and is thrilled with Veolia's expertise. "They make sure all the parts are working, the UV is working...they do all the testing demanded by the government and make sure everything is in compliance, but we [the town council] are still responsible," says Mr. Bagnato.
To be sure, water bills in the region have gone up. In 2000, the average water bill in Walkerton was $15 a month. The cost is now $50 a month for a family of two, and $70 for a family of five or six. Mr. Bagnato is not complaining: "It was $15 bucks forever, and they thought they were doing a great job by making people happy by keeping the price down, but meanwhile the infrastructure was falling apart."
Other towns have been watching the Walkerton experiment, says Mr. Bagnato. After several years of great service and no problems, he believes other towns will be following in Walkerton's wake and hire a private operator.
As for the added expense? "The days of low water bills are over everywhere," Mr. Bagnato says.
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Yep, here are a few stats on that.
Drinking Water Statistics
Each year more than five million people die from water-related disease. (20)
30 percent of water-related deaths are due to diarrhea. (21)
84 percent of water-related deaths are in children ages 0 – 14. (21)
98 percent of water-related deaths occur in the developing world. (21)
For the first time, the number of people without improved drinking water has dropped below one billion. (1)
Less than 1% of the world's fresh water (or about 0.007% of all water on earth) is readily accessible for direct human use. (2)
A person can live weeks without food, but only days without water. (3)
A person needs 4 to 5 gallons of water per day to survive. (4, 5)
The average American individual uses 100 to 176 gallons of water at home each day. (6, 7) The average African family uses about 5 gallons of water each day. (7)
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90 percent of all deaths caused by diarrheal diseases are children under 5 years of age, mostly in developing countries. (9)
Sustainable management of water resources and sanitation provides great benefits to a society and the economy as a whole...access to safe drinking water is essential for achieving gender equality, sustainable development and poverty alleviation. (8)
Water systems fail at a rate of 50% or higher. (10,11)
Poor people living in the slums often pay 5-10 times more per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city. (12)
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Good morning everyone.
Good morning people.
Damn!!! That's a nice ride people. Been ina freaking meeting all day and come back to some nice picks. Thanks to all who was able tot ake the pics and share them here. There is some serious publicity going on right now for the GTM-R. Now let's see what the stock does for us longs.
Charts aren't to pretty right now for either of them if your playing short term. Here's my take BWTFDIK. GLTY.
COSI - Fall below .29 could get ugly
SSCC - Fall below .33 could get ugly.
Agreed, could use some consolidation here for the next move up. The 50 MA at .58 should provide good support for it.
PWAV holding up well today.
Great thanks.
Hey Stevo, you hear anything back from Shawn yet?
Agreed PWAV will be nice.
Zimbabwe cholera death toll tops 1,700: WHO
Reuters
Published: Tuesday, January 06, 2009
GENEVA (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic is picking up speed, with a total of 1,732 deaths out of 34,306 cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.
A cholera update dated January 5 showed a further 59 deaths and 731 new cases, up from 32 deaths and 379 fresh cases reported the previous day, it said.
The epidemic is adding to the humanitarian crisis in the country, where President Robert Mugabe and the opposition are deadlocked over a power-sharing deal and the veteran leader is resisting Western calls to step down.
The waterborne disease, which causes severe diarrhea and dehydration, has spread to all of Zimbabwe's 10 provinces because of the collapse of health and sanitation systems.
On Monday Health Minister David Parirenyatwa said the epidemic could get worse as the rainy season develops.
The rainy season peaks in January or February and ends in late March. Floods, which can affect Zimbabwe's low-lying areas, may increase the spreading of the disease.
"Social service delivery is collapsing, notably education, health and water supply infrastructure," said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
It said the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) planned to help feed 4.5 million people a month until March when the main cereal harvest is due to start, while the Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency (C-SAFE) would handle another 1.8 million over the same period.
"WFP and C-SAFE pipelines combined will assist more than 50 percent of the population of Zimbabwe with food," OCHA said.
(Reporting by Jonathan Lynn; Editing by Matthew Tostevin)
Every year, about 110,000 children under the age of five die of water borne diseases in Bangladesh due to lack of sanitation, leading English newspaper The Daily Star reported Sunday.
According to official health statistics, 65 million children under five in the country are affected by water borne diseases because of lack of sanitation annually, the newspaper said.
The UN sources said under the global scenario of urbanization and population growth are threatening one of the UN's most ambitious millennium development goals. The UN had hoped to halve the number of people without access to clean drinking water and sanitation by 2015.
But, progress has slowed due to population increases and unexpectedly high migration to urban areas, the World Health Organization and the United Nations International Children's Emergence Fund (UNICEF) said.
They estimated some 2.6 billion people worldwide have no sanitation and every year 1.6 million children under the age of five die because of such a lack of access
Here are some statistics of Canada water filtration equipment.
VERY!!!! I hope all goes well for everyone here.
VERY!!!! I hope all goes well for everyone here.
Good morning people. let's see how the show goes today.
Agreed Doog. Canada is beginning to wake up to the fact tha they need to clean up their water supply.
The condition of the Canadian water supply
Taking water for granted
Because we take water for granted, Canadians tend not to act upon issues relating to water until there is a crisis. A crisis, however, is looming which will necessitate a reconsideration of the value of water.
That crisis revolves around the fact that increasing demand for safe water in Canada is overwhelming a rapidly aging and unreliable infrastructure. Adding additional stress is the fact that about 60% of our fresh water drains north while 85% of the population lives within 300 km of the southern border with the United States.
It is not a unique challenge - it is one faced by many nations. But we are not used to facing such problems. As a result, Canadians are having difficulty grasping what they mean. What these problems are telling us is that we are not different than anyone else. We are beginning to face the same challenges everyone else is facing.
Grasping the problem
Recent events should confirm for all Canadians the need to develop a new plan to ensure a safe and reliable water supply:
In 2001, seven people died and 2,300 people fell seriously ill in Walkerton, Ontario because their drinking water was contaminated with the E-Coli bacteria.
Also in 2001, a Cryptosporidium outbreak endangered the health of 7,000 residents in North Battleford, Saskatchewan.
In 2005, contaminated water forced the residents of a largely Aboriginal community in Kasechewan, Ontario to evacuate their homes because of water contamination.
Each year hundreds of Canadian municipalities have to issue Boil Water Advisories because of the existence of or the threat of contaminated water.
In Alberta, Health Authorities issued 123 advisories between 2002 and 2004. Today, 59% of reserve drinking water systems are considered “at risk”.
Health problems related to water pollution in general cost Canadians an estimated $300 million per year.
The City of Edmonton experienced a Giardia outbreak in 1982 that was linked to 895 cases of illness. That scare prompted a vigorous response – first by the City’s water department, and later by EPCOR. The response included increased time for chlorine to be in contact with the water, use of activated carbon particles to improve the water’s taste, smell and colour plus the use of electronic monitors on the systems clarifiers and filters.
Today, in Edmonton alone in 2006, EPCOR performed 109,000 tests on the region’s drinking water, monitoring 326 different physical, chemical and microbiological parameters.
EPCOR also installed what was then one of the largest UV treatment systems in the world. In 2002, Edmonton became the first Canadian city of its size to have its drinking water protected with UV treatment. As an aside, we later installed UV technology in Canmore and other small communities.
Challenges to our water system
Edmonton is just one city and Canada is a huge country. Inadequate infrastructure remains one of the most serious challenges facing our water systems. Across Canada, many municipalities are facing severe infrastructure deficits for both water and wastewater services.
The government of Canada recently reported that the nation’s wastewater treatment facilities had exhausted 63% of their useful life by 2003. An Ontario report found that in that province alone, $30 to $40 billion of new investment was required in water and wastewater facilities. In Alberta, the value of actions outlined in the province’s Water for Life Strategy in February 2004 was $916 million over 10 years.
Toward system sustainability
The challenges facing our water systems are multidimensional and multi-faceted in their origins and certainly are not unique to Canada. It requires a diverse stakeholder approach that reconsiders and appropriately defines the role of public and private sectors.
Our ability to consistently deliver a safe and reliable supply of water depends on two key factors: securing a sustainable quantity and quality of raw water, and building and managing sustainable systems for its treatment, distribution and effective demand management.
An effective system must involve a strong and vigorous public sector, one that sets a clear, rule-based regulatory regime, working in tandem with municipal and private sector players to offer sustainable and reliable water supply, open to alternative-delivery models.
Neither the public nor the private sector can deliver effective results alone. What we need are strong and well structured partnerships.
Good morning people.
Good morning people.
Love the low floaters.
“Over the past six months we have extensively tested and demonstrated our portable water clarifier/purifier on the production of safe drinking water from unsafe sources,” says Leonard Girard, Chief Science Officer with Purio. “Every demonstration, as previously reported, produced safe, delicious drinking water and so we have stepped up to the challenge of processing residential wastewater right out of a residential sewer manhole. Our objective was two-fold; first to prove that our patented process is able to decolorize, deodorize and disinfect raw sewage in order to exceed regulatory requirements for safe disposal into the environment, and second to attempt to produce a sanitary product water suitable for re-use in food irrigation, gardening and the like. Truthfully, we dreamed about but were not really expecting that our output water quality would reach potable standard so we’re elated with the results of that demonstration.”
Girard continues, “Our unit was set to process about 3250 USG (12,250 liters) per day and is equipped with on-board testing monitors which display water quality parameters in real-time along the treatment train during operation. Of course the most important area of concern was the unit’s ability to eliminate E.coli and coliform bacteria which present serious risk to human health if ingested. Our monitors, as well as the lab report, (from the same accredited lab which has assayed our previous samples) summarized below, both agree that the water produced was clear, bacteria-free and sanitary.”
Earl Switenky, spokesman for Purio Inc. says, “We have proven an even higher level of capability in managing the world’s water crisis. We have successfully coupled energy high-efficiency with remarkable results with no compromises. We have confirmed that our high quality, sanitary product water lends itself to processing through RO in order to qualify for the designation as “Purified Water”. The lab tested some 32 organic and inorganic analytes and the table below summarizes some of the most important ones which prove the powerful effectiveness of our clarifier and sanitizing chambers.”
Agreed. We are hovering around the 50 MA right now for solid support. Little more consolidation and we should get a bump/