The environmental industry worldwide is increasing fast again since 2 years ago with 12 per cent per year. The highest increase are in water and clean energies. Water counts for 34 per cent of the total markets and clean energies for 13 percent, waste for 28 per cent and noise reduction for 2 percent. Water and clean energies are on the global agenda again. A new factory-engineered blower package, designed to operate 8000 hours ormore between scheduled maintenance, has been introduced by Dresser Roots . Elfab, one of Europe¹s leading suppliers of pressure-relief systems, has added detection to each of its main product lines, giving end-users an immediate indication that a bursting device has operated. Elfab is believed to be the first manufacturer to offer this as standard. Imagine a world where all your sealing needs could be met with one material, Thermiculite. For engineers and plant managers in the water industry, pump selection has long been a complex and time-consuming task, usually involving the collection and analysis of significant volumes of information with a myriad number of parameters to take into account. The control centre of San Diego's Clean Water Operations Management Network (COMNET) - one of the world's largest integrated control and information systems linking wastewater facilities - monitors processing of 180million gallons of wastewater every day. prev