USDA patents method to reduce livestock waste ammonia emissions by 95%.

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The Tata Swach, a revolutionary new household water filter combines the inexpensive carbon of burnt rice husks with silver nano-particles to kill and remove deadly microbes including cholera, E coli, and the rotavirus. The Swach doesn’t need electricity or running water and it’s hugely affordable.

Indians don’t have the luxury of tap water that’s rigorously tested and treated. They need to filter or boil their water because the stuff their government sends them is often dangerous. This was driven home last month when, during a seven-day boat journey down the Ganges, I passed a sewage pipe pouring waste into the river just upstream of a pumping station that in turn sent the dirty water right back into people’s homes…

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New study finds that even the cleanest wastewater contains 'super bacteria' : UMNews : University of Minnesota - http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2011/UR_CONTENT_363271.html

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This report estimates the economic and job creation impact of a major investment in water infrastructure in the United States. This number—$188.4 billion—is based on the level of investment necessary, as estimated by the Environmental Protection Agency, to manage stormwater and preserve water quality across the country. We find that an investment of $188.4 billion spread equally over the next five years would generate $265.6 billion in economic activity and create close to 1.9 million jobs. - http://www.greenforall.org/resources/water-works

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Scientists are reporting that household washing machines seem to be a major source of so-called “microplastic” pollution—bits of polyester and acrylic smaller than the head of a pin—that they now have detected on ocean shorelines worldwide. Their report describing this potentially harmful material appears in the American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Poop, it’s the new coal, at least according to Japan’s largest toilet manufacturer, Toto, who — believe it or not — has recently released a three-wheel bike powered by human excrement. No. We are not making this crap up.

So how does it work? According to a report, the company says the waste – which can come directly from the driver sitting on a toilet-style seat – is stored in the basin and is then converted into biofuel which fuels the retro-styled chopper.


http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/20111011/toilet-bike-runs-on-yup-human-waste.htm

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NEW FRANKLIN: A facility to turn sewage sludge into fuel for vehicles is planned in southern Summit County. - http://www.ohio.com/news/local/new-facility-to-turn-sludge-into-fuel-for-vehicles-speed-up-lime-lake-cleanup-1.238145

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A treatment for human excrement used in post-earthquake Christchurch is to be taught here.

Whangarei resident James Bellamy has twice travelled to Christchurch to teach earthquake-struck residents how to build and use composting toilets.

With much of the city’s sewerage and water pipes damaged by the quakes, the composting toilets are a suitable alternative as they do not need water, can be used indoors, do not smell and create no pollution, he says.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/northland/whangarei-leader/5446780/Composting-toilets-on-agenda

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Inadequate Sanitation Costs India Rs. 2.4 Trillion (US$53.8 Billion)

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Israel's Sewage-Eating Bacteria Lure GE Cash

Israel's water industry is attracting funds from General Electric Co. (GE) and ConocoPhillips as the country develops energy-saving technology to treat sewage, part of a $5 billion program to clean up water supplies by 2016.

Emefcy Ltd., building a fuel cell that uses bacteria to break down waste in water, has raised more than $10 million from investors including GE, NRG Energy Inc. (NRG) and ConocoPhillips, its Chief Executive Officer Eytan Levy said in a telephone interview. The process reduces the amount of energy required to treat sewage and generates electricity.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-15/israel-s-sewage-eating-bacteria-lure-ge-cash-to-cut-energy-costs.html

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An article that details the differences between separate sewer systems and combined sewer and rainwater/stormwater systems - http://www.waterworld.com/index/display/article-display.articles.waterworld.stormwater-ubanwater.stormwater-management.2011.07.Sewage-pollution-problem-in-NY-NJ.QP129867.dcmp=rss.page=1.html

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Approximately ten per cent of homes in the Irish countryside still use underground septic tanks to deal with their household sewage. The biggest drawback to the tanks is that they have to be emptied two or three times each year. It is also important to site the tanks carefully to ensure that the contents cannot leak into the ground water supply. As a solution for storing human feces and urine, the Irish Earthworm Company has developed a household wormery for composting domestic waste.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfiur1_waste-management-using-earthworms_tech

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2011 Invention Awards: From Waste To Water

A machine that uses exhaust heat to treat onboard sewage

After a weeklong cruise, a typical 3,000-passenger cruise ship may hold nearly 200,000 gallons of wastewater in toilets - a problem, inventor Namon Nassef says, that the ZLD could easily eliminate.

When Namon Nassef had to buy a new engine for his boat, he saw an opportunity. He could finally install the invention he had been working on, a machine he calls the Zero Liquid Discharge Sewage Elimination System (ZLD). The device uses engine heat to oxidize and evaporate toilet, shower and galley waste.

A typical combustion engine makes use of only 30 to 35 percent of the energy contained in fuel; the rest escapes as heat through the radiator or the exhaust. The microwave-oven-size ZLD puts that exhaust heat to work.

The exhaust of an idling engine is at least 550 degrees F, which is hot enough to flash evaporate the waste and thermally oxidize the organic materials. Quite simply, the device can break down anything organic that?s put into it. The process eliminates all odors, Nassef says, and the main by-products are carbon dioxide and clean water vapor.

How It Works: Zero Liquid Discharge: Waste flows from the boat?s toilet to an equalization tank, which breaks it into small pieces. The material next moves into the homogenizer, a container where it gets chopped into particles. The injector pump pressurizes the material and sprays it through a nozzle into the engine?s exhaust system, where the heat cleans it.

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Laundry to Landscape - Greywater finds increasing usage in gardening

For the average gardener, the thought of soaking their in water tainted with laundry suds and bath bubbles, which until last year was classified by the state of California as sewage, is a little counterintuitive. But recent changes to state and local laws have reclassified greywater -- or water drained from bathroom sinks, showers, bath tubs and washing machines -- as a resource, allowing it to be diverted for irrigation at single and two-family homes. Meanwhile, new detergent mixes make the soap-on-plants concern a non-issue.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_18533848

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We in India follow western model of treatment as activated sludge process,SBR which proven best in countries beyond 40 latitude. Why should not we are much keen on technologies like anaerobic filter which require only 10 % electrical energy compare to aerobic processes ?

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Engineer spots power in county's sewage effluent

Bart O'Keeffe, an engineer working in the field of electrical generation since 1960, has a proposal to deal with the county's troublesome sewage effluent in West Maui - make electricity out of it.

The proposal of his United Power Corp. is exploratory so far, but following a meeting with county officials last week, O'Keeffe said he was encouraged enough to prepare to open a permanent office on Maui, and county Energy Commissioner Doug McLeod was ready to hear more.

The proposal is for a pumped storage generating plant. Water - in this case, reclaimed water from the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility - would be pumped about four miles up Honokowai Gulch, stored in a reservoir at the 1,600-foot elevation and released when needed to develop 30 megawatts of hydropower.

The power to pump the water up would also have to be found and paid for.

The ideal is solar, O'Keeffe said. Solar is not firm power, so a utility would pay less per kilowatt-hour for it.

Pumped storage can turn solar panels that rely on available sunlight into firm hydroelectric power, available at night, and worth more money, he said.

http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/550683/Engineer-spots-power-in-county-s-sewage-effluent.html?nav=10

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200 million farmers use untreated human waste in fields - Nearly 200 million farmers in China, India, Vietnam, Africa, Latin America harvest grains/vegetables from fields that use untreated human waste. Most of these draw irrigation water from local rivers or lakes. Unlike developed cities, these areas lack advanced water-treatment facilities, and rivers effectively become sewers. Farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, & consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed. Nearly 2.2 million die of diarrhea per year! What a biz opportunity! - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080821-human-waste.html

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Separating urine and feces is a useful idea - Just as we separate plastic, cardboard, and newspaper, says Rosemarin, we should separate urine, feces, and greywater. As a first step down this road, some companies are producing new types of toilets. One idea, pioneered in Sweden, is known as urine diversion. The basic concept is that the toilet has two receptacles for the different kinds of waste. - http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/07/13/waste_not/?page=3

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