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TAMPA FLORIDA: Cactus Goo Makes Water Safe Sept. 17, 2008 -- The slimy ooze inside prickly pear cactuses that helps the plants store water in the desert can also be used for scouring arsenic, bacteria and cloudiness out of rural drinking water, according to research at the University of South Florida in Tampa Read on >>
NEPAL: [The] Country's first large-scale community based waste water treatment plant accompanied with a biogas reactor has been set up at Srikhandapur of Dhulikhel Municipality to treat household waste water before discharging it into the river and generate biogas to meet the local energy need. [ Bio-Xpress Editor: The system uses reed bed technology and requires an area of more than 8,000 Sq m. From what we can read in this press article, a model 2000 Bio-Xpress Reactor would exceed this performance in less than 120 Sqm fgo a full scale Wastewater station ... setting aside the actual BOD and time to process] The plant will treat waste generated by around 200 households of Srikhandapur village and is expected to produce biogas for cooking purpose to around 60 families read on >>
BALI: US$64.5 Million Sewage Plant for Bali President Inaugurates Three Phase Project to Provide Waste Water Handling for South Bali to be Completed by 2014 Read on >>
EBENSBURG, Pa. -- Members of a small, isolated Amish community are refusing to follow state code in their handling of waste from a school's two outhouses, citing their religious convictions. Waste from the outhouses has been collected in plastic buckets, then dumped onto fields. The county is demanding the Amish install a holding tank and contract with a certified sewage hauler for disposal. (SNIP)
A district judge last month found Andy Swartzentruber, on whose land the outhouses sit, and school elder Sam Yoder in violation of state sewage disposal law. They have until tomorrow to pay more than $500 each in fines or to appeal the ruling. Read on >>
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