AMTROL Inc. reported that it has reached an important milestone in its effort to complete a financial restructuring under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. In March, the company and the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors filed a joint plan of reorganization and related disclosure statement with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
Long-distance athletes from the Hopi villages atop Black Mesa in Northern Arizona will run from the "center of the universe" to Sedona, Ariz., this month. They will be "Carrying the Gift of Water" across land, time and cultures.
A student team of Engineers Without Borders recently returned from Kenya where they began implementing a plan to bring clean drinking water to more than 3,000 subsistence farmers. Working with villagers of Namawanga, their projects focused on water quality, assessing sites for future wells, grading topsoil and fencing out livestock.
In less than 10 years, Sandvik Mining and Construction has developed a number of mining and construction brands, however, the company will now do business only under the brand, Sandvik.
Ten universities have received grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for research to develop better methods for detecting harmful organisms in drinking water, including viruses, bacteria and protozoa.
Following and implementing water system and plumbing codes should become easier for many installers, building inspectors and others under a new agreement announced in February by NSF International and the International Code Council.
Probes designed to find life on Mars do not drill deep enough to find the living cells that scientists believe may exist well below the surface, according to recent research. Yet the study also shows that the best place to look for living cells is within the ice of the newly discovered frozen sea on Mars.