iWater Report
By Kathy L. Pursley
Associate Editor
Water Center Gets New Home
Colorado State University dedicated its newly remodeled Engineering Building on October 13, 2000. From the homepage at cwrri.colostate.edu, select the August 2000 newsletter link. This issue of the Colorado Water newsletter features and illustrates the building's hydrologic cycle design and symbolism. An example of the Parshall Flume, developed in 1925 by CSU professor Ralph Parshall, anchors the focal point of a fountain. Water moves through the CSU Water Center's plaza and illustrates spillways, sheet flow, channels and various water projects. The plaza's walkway design shows various irrigation patterns, and more. The Colorado Water Resources Research Institute web site home page is a portal to a wealth of information, links and archives.
Help For
Harding Lawson and associates is serving up an acronym dictionary at www.harding.com/Web/acronyms.htm. The site delivers meanings for over 2300 acronyms with no bells and whistles, just a simple-to-use alphabetical listing of acronyms and their meanings.
Web Enabled Alarming
Phonetics has announced a new web-enabling feature for its Sensaphone® SCADA 3000 fully integrated, comprehensive control system. The system allows plant managers and engineers to access alarm and critical data point information via the Internet. The data is automatically formatted into a Web page and uploaded to a specific, designated Web site for that user's system. The Web page(s) can be viewed from anywhere in the world at any time via the Internet. The company's web site at www.sensaphone.com offers software downloads, and manuals and engineering specifications in pdf versions.
Products and Information
Waterwares.com (address: www.waterwares.com) is a new portal that features water treatment products and related accessories from manufacturers, which sell directly to end-user organizations including municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment plants, and others. The site offers a database of more than 100,000 items and enables comparison-shopping and instant online purchasing without middle-market delays and cost increases. The inventory is cross-referenced in 20 major categories including purification, filtration, analytical, disinfection, parts and accessories and/or by part number, product description and manufacturer name.
Online Filtration Products
eFiltration launched its electronic hub, www.efiltration.com, aligned with companies including Filtration Group and Parker Hannifin Corp.'s Process Filtration Division. The site aggregates buyers and sellers online, and provides a comprehensive array of products, support services and information. The site is designed to make it easier for all members of the filtration supply chain to do business. eFiltration offers thousands of HVAC, liquid and industrial-air filtration products, from 55 cent furnace filters to $24,000 multibag liquid filters for utilities and water treatment, as well as a wide range of other industries. The site offers a comprehensive library of product information, real-time customer support, and tools such as order tracking.
Subscription Consulting Service
A new site by CallingWatson, Inc., at www.callingwatson.com offers online consulting, tools and training for energy and environmental health and safety issues. Subscribers can ask questions pertaining to energy and EHS issues. Questions are routed to experts from one of CallingWatson's strategic partners Environmental Resources Management (ERM) and Armstrong Services International (ASI). ERM has over 2,000 EHS professionals located in over 120 offices worldwide, and ASI has 20 worldwide offices that provide technical and construction services and training for total steam system optimization. Subscribers receive a detailed response to their questions within three to five business days. Subscribers can access Watson's Collections, a database of previous questions and answers, and Watson's Connections, where users connect with other users and share information and documents in online communities.
Software Demo
OPS Systems announced the release of OPS 32trademark. The new software is a step up from the OPS WiNtrademark with its 32-bit increased speed and performance. A demo is available for download from http://www.opssys.com/demos.html by completing an information form. The animated demos illustrate the types of forms and data management sheets available. The OPS 32 program interfaces with SCADA to manage data, produce regulatory and summary reports. Its new features include hourly data, text variables, bench sheet calculations and improved handling for changing permit limits and MDL's.
Register To Win
The Hydraulic Institute's web site at www.pumps.org offers a variety of materials and services. The Institute is offering a Pumping System Assessment Tool for download from its site. To reach the download link, choose the new energy section, and select software tools and then select Pumping System Assessment Tool (PSAT) Software. Those visitors who sign the guest book (link located on the navigation bar at the top of the page) can "click to win" one of two complete sets of HI's 2000 Edition Standards given away weekly.
Water Research Reports
The Water Science and Technology Board's web site, http://www4.nas.edu/cger/wstb.nsf, offers a number of documents by choosing the WSTB Reports link on the left side of the page. Scrolling downward along the web page reveals a number of reports. These are available for purchase as hard copies, or can be read for free online, by selecting the "Read it Online FREE" link found above the report cover photo. One new study available is the report on Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply: Assessing the New York City Strategy (2000). Another publication for reading online is the 1999 report Identifying Future Drinking Water Contaminants, written for EPA, which was to develop a scientifically sound basis for creating future contaminant candidate lists.
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