Last week, the President of the Dominican Republic, H.E. Leonel Férnandez, inaugurated the Mata Larga Water Treatment Plant at San Francisco de Macoris in the North East of the country. The scheme was designed and constructed by Biwater.

Biwater commenced this Turnkey contract in 2003. The projects include a one cumec Water Treatment Plant, three pumping stations, two storage reservoirs, 30 kilometres of raw water pipeline and 40 kilometres of treated water distribution pipeline.

The new plant provides potable water to more than 300,000 people to World Health Organisation (WHO) standards using conventional treatment processes together with chemical and chlorine dosing.

Aachen/Canberra, October 2006 – The New South Wales Department of Environment and Conservation decided to improve air quality monitoring with AQUISnet from KISTERS Germany. This confirms the corporate strategy of KISTERS that resource management is a global requirement best met by continuous efforts for technology leadership.

Air quality, along with water issues, continue to be the two most important environmental issues in New South Wales. Especially within the Greater Metropolitan Region (Sydney, Lower Hunter and Illawarra regions) which is home to around 70 per cent of the NSW population, two main problems persist – photochemical smog and particle pollution (brown haze).

With the thousandfold proven KISTERS time series management inside AQUISnet offers the complete package: air quality data acquisition, plausibilization and validation, detection and alarming of threshold exceeds, station and device registers, control of measurement devices, manifold reports and typical data analysis of air quality parameters (NOx, SO2, O3, Dust Hydrocarbon…) and meteorological parameters (temperature, humidity, precipitation, radiation).

In Germany, KISTERS air quality monitoring systems are used by federal and state environmental agencies as well as for emission monitoring in industry. In 2004 KISTERS Resource Management spread its wings to the Pacific market. Now with the NSW DEC as prominent customer KISTERS ties up to its worldwide presence in the field of water resources management.

Watson-Marlow Bredel, the leading manufacturer of peristaltic pumps, offers the heavy-duty SPX pump for challenging environmental applications. The SPX reliably handles a variety of harsh materials, including abrasive sludge.

Advanced hose technology enables the SPX to pump grit-filled sludge dependably for a long period of time. Peristaltic hose pumps are virtually maintenance-free, with no expensive seals to replace, no check valves to clog, and no rotors and stators to wear out. Unlike other pump types, the highly abrasive nature of sludge does not affect pump life. With its self-loading design, hose replacement is quick and easy. The combination of these features makes the SPX an enduring solution for tough environmental applications.

Every Watson-Marlow Bredel peristaltic pump is an inherent metering pump with repeatability at 99.5%. Many models include integral digital drives and displays in washdown enclosures. These self-priming pumps accommodate flow rates from litres to 80 cubic/metres hour, and are extremely durable, withstanding pressures up to 16 bar. There are no internal universal joints, valves, dead corners, or glands to impede flow, and these pumps are reversible for back flushing lines. They can also run dry indefinitely without damage and provide up to a 9m suction lift.