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Issue 8 - May 27, 2002

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In This Issue:
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o Message from the Editor

o C Tech Development Corporation
-- RELEASE OF EVS/MVS VERSION 5.75

o NGWA
-- 2002 Calendar Offers Range Of Courses

o SAGEEP 2003
-- Call For Papers

o Aquaponics Course

o IRC International Water And Sanitation Centre
-- E-Conference Announcement: "Beyond The Community

o IRC International Water And Sanitation Centre
-- Water For Development

o How to subscribe / unsubscribe

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MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR - WATERCOM ENGINEERING
http://www.watercom.ca
e-mail: info@...
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Dear Subscriber,

You have just received the 8th issue of the WaterCom Newsletter,
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C TECH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
RELEASE OF EVS/MVS VERSION 5.75
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C Tech Development Corporation, the worldwide leader in true 3D
Earth Science software, today announced EVS/MVS Version 5.75,
a major new release of its 3D volumetric Earth Science Software.

Reed D. Copsey, Sr., C Tech's CEO remarks: "These are exciting
times. Our users continually explore new applications, using our
software for analysis and visualization tasks ranging from geologic
and environmental analysis, to groundwater flow and transport,
emergency management, radio frequency and
electromagnetic modeling, oceanic exploration and
characterization, civil engineering, archaeology and even the
restoration of ancient buildings. We are aggressively moving
forward, committed to develop the tools requested by our users to
meet their demanding applications. Version 5.75 is a stellar
demonstration of that commitment."

This new version marks C Tech's introduction of the Well
Decommission technology, developed at the request of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. Groundwater contamination
sites worldwide are engaged in regular sampling of monitoring wells
at a typical cost of $1,500 per well, per sampling event. Many of
these wells are redundant or geostatistically insignificant and can
be decommissioned. C Tech's new module analyses all available
groundwater data and quantifies each well's importance to the
overall site assessment. Well Decommission provides an easy to
use, quantitative and justifiable method to determine which, if any,
wells can be decommissioned. This technology has the potential
to save millions of dollars at U.S. Superfund sites alone.

Details about the approach with example graphics are available at
http://www.ctech.com/brochure/ctech-web-brochure7.htm. When
combined with C Tech's other modules like Drill Guide, C Tech
offers the tools to help government and industry with their limited
budgets, assess and cleanup the seemingly countless
contaminated sites worldwide. With over 500,000 Brownfield sites
in the U.S. alone, technology to cut costs must be applied
immediately.

With this release, C Tech has also made significant enhancements
to its proprietary 4D Interactive Model (4DIM) Animation Player.
4DIM animations (referring to four dimensions instead of only 3)
represent a full 3D model (scene) changing in content or time (the
fourth dimension). Unlike bitmap (image) based animations, 4DIMs
contain a complete, 3D, vector-accurate model at each frame of the
animation. Each frame of the 4DIM can be zoomed, panned and
rotated as a static 3D model or interacted with as the 4DIM
animation is played.

The 4DIM Player is included as a component of all versions of C
Tech's software and also offered as a standalone application. To
take a look at this unique technology, download the 4DIM
Standalone Player at
http://www.ctech.com/download/4DIM/4DIM_setup.exe. For more
information, visit C Tech's website at http://www.ctech.com or call
1-800-669-4387 or 714-840-7444.

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NGWA - 2002 CALENDAR OFFERS RANGE OF COURSES
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WESTERVILLE, OH (March 11, 2002) - Nearly thirty courses on
ground water-related topics will be offered during the remainder of
2002 by the National Ground Water Association (NGWA). These
classes are taught by ground water professionals with practical as
well as classroom experience and will take place at several
locations throughout the United States. Both NGWA members and
prospective members are encouraged to register.

Courses, dates, and places (when known) are as follows:

March 18-20, Columbus, Ohio: Principles of Ground Water - Flow,
Transport, and Remediation
March 26-28, Kissimmee, Florida: Computer Modeling of Natural
Attenuation and Bioremediation Systems
March 26-28, Scottsdale, Arizona: Understanding Migration,
Assessment, and Remediation of Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids
(LNAPLs and DNAPLs)
April 8-9, Chicago, Illinois: Design and Construction of Wells
April 9-10, Columbus, Ohio: Practical Applications of Natural
Attenuation
April 9-10, Chicago, Illinois: Engineered In Situ Reactive Zones
(IRZs)
April 9-10, Chicago, Illinois: Successful Remediation Technologies
May 6-7, Scottsdale, Arizona: Estimating Times of Remediation
Associated with Monitored Natural Attenuation and Contaminant
Source Removal
May 8-10, Las Vegas, Nevada: The Environmental Geochemistry of
Metals
May 8-9, Columbus, Ohio: Design and Construction of Wells
June 3-4, Orange, California: Engineered In Situ Reactive Zones
(IRZs)
June 5, Orange, California: Ground Water Geochemistry Refresher
Workshop and Drinking Water Treatment for MTBE and TBA
June 10-12, Columbus, Ohio: Analysis and Design of Aquifer Tests
Including Slug Tests and Fracture Flow
August 12-14, Dallas, Texas: Analysis and Design of Aquifer Tests
August 14-16, Dallas, Texas: Natural Attenuation for Remediation
of Contaminated Sites
September 2: Advanced Visual Modflow
September 9-13, San Francisco, California: Natural Attenuation,
Risk Assessment and RBCA
September 16-17, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Fundamentals of
Ground Water Geochemistry
September 16-17, Burlington, Vermont: Application of Health Risk
Assessment for Environmental Decision-Making
September 18-20, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Applications of
Ground Water Geochemistry
October 7-8, Orange, California: Water Well Rehabilitation
October 8-9, Orange, California: Environmental Ground Water Data
Management Using Microsoft Access, SQL Server and the Internet
October 9-10, Orange, California: Ground Water Remediation
Technologies
October 22-24, Salem, Massachusetts: The MODFLOW Course:
Theory and Practical Application
October 25, Salem, Massachusetts: WinPEST (Automated Model
Calibration Using WinPEST)
November 5-8, State College, Pennsylvania: Fracture Trace and
Lineament Analysis

For more information or to register, contact the NGWA Customer
Service Center at (800) 551-7379, or visit
http://www.ngwa.org/education/index.html. National Ground Water
Association members include more than 16,000 U.S. and
international ground water professionals-contractors, equipment
manufacturers and suppliers, and ground water scientists and
engineers. NGWA members are committed to this basic
understanding: when you are a ground water professional, it's more
that just water. NGWA provides members, government, and the
general public with the scientific knowledge and economic
guidance necessary to responsibly develop, protect, and manage
the world's ground water resources.

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SAGEEP 2003 CALL FOR PAPERS
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SAGEEP 2003 Call for Papers is now available!

The Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to
Environmental and Engineering Problems (SAGEEP) will be held in
beautiful San Antonio, Texas, April 6 - 10, 2003 at the Omni Hotel.

The SAGEEP 2003 General Chair, Dr. Kenneth Stokoe from the
University of Texas - Austin, and the Technical Chair, Dr. Catherine
Skokan from Colorado School of Mines, have been hard at work
identifying top session topics to present at the next SAGEEP.
Topics include Geophysics Applied to Security Issues, UXO and
Land Mine Detection, Extreme Geophysics, and many more! For a
full list of session topics and information on how to submit
abstracts for review, access the EEGS website (www.eegs.org)
and click on the SAGEEP 2003 logo or click on the following link.

http://www.eegs.org/PDFfiles/Call%20for%20papers.pdf

We hope to see you in San Antonio!

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AQUAPONICS COURSE
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AQUAPONICS COURSE (combining aquaculture and hydroponics
for mutual benefit) will be held June 17-21,2002 in Bryson City, NC.
For more information, contact Aquaculture International, Inc., P.O.
Box 606, Andrews, NC 28901. Phone or fax: 828-479-6294. Email:
cwjohnson@....

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IRC INTERNATIONAL WATER AND SANITATION CENTRE
E-CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: "BEYOND THE
COMMUNITY
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E-conference on scaling up community management of rural water
supplies.

From 3 June - 28 June 2002

BACKGROUND

It has become known as community management of water supply
systems. It has become the major approach for implementing
water supply systems in rural areas. It was an answer to the large
scale break down of water supply systems in the 1970s and
1980s. Since then it has been applied world wide in different forms
and using different methods. It can be summarized as achieving
sustainability by preparing rural communities to manage their water
supplies themselves once the implementing agency has pulled out.
It entails:
- participatory processes to create a sense of ownership for the
water supply system;
- tailoring service levels to the demand of community people;
- and building the capacities of community people to operate,
maintain and manage their systems themselves.
It puts the main responsibilities of sustainable water supply
squarely with communities.

However, after two decades of working with the concept,
community management has not resulted in 100% coverage of
water supply in rural areas. It only produced a limited number of
islands of success. In addition, there is little or no evidence that
it
has resulted in long-term (indefinite) sustainability of water supply
systems in rural communities.

This e-conference starts from the position that communities cannot
be left with the full responsibility for managing their water supply
systems. They need support: long-term, continuous and
appropriate support to keep their systems working. What is more,
we cannot be satisfied with occasional islands of success. We
need to at least aim for 100% coverage. Community management
needs to be scaled up.

TO SUBSCRIBE

There are two ways to subscribe to the e-conference:
1. To subscribe by e-mail send the following message to
wsscmanp-request@...: JOIN SCALING UP
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT FIRSTNAME LASTNAME (replace
FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME with your own names.
2. Via the Web, at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-
bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=wsscmanp&A=1 complete your e-mail
address and your name only, then choose 'join the list'.

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IRC INTERNATIONAL WATER AND SANITATION CENTRE
WATER FOR DEVELOPMENT
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Water for Development is the theme for World Water Day 2002;
the International Atomic Energy Agency is the coordinating UN
agency this year, see www.worldwaterday2002.iaea.org. The
currently poor and deteriorating state of water resources in many
parts of the world demand integrated water resources planning and
management. The IAEA highlights the following issues.

The impact of steady population growth on water availability is an
increasing challenge. In fact, it has been observed that while the
20th Century was about oil, the 21st Century will be about water.

Already today, with a world population of 6.1 billion, lack of water
is
a pressing problem in developing countries. As the population
continues to grow - expected to exceed 9 billion in the next 50
years - the demand for water may become acute. Signs are
already evident. In some developed countries, water returned to the
environment is often in a polluted state thus threatening its source.
In some urban centres, demand for water not only threatens to
exceed the supply, but the quality of the water itself is also a
concern. While improved technology in agriculture has increased
food production, demand for water has correspondingly increased.
Improper irrigation practices can worsen this ­situation, turning
fertile land into deserts.

These and other issues all point to the urgent need to improve
management of our water resources. Although two-thirds of the
Earth is covered in water, only a small fraction - some 2.5% - is not
salty, and much of that is locked up in icecaps and glaciers. The
challenge at the local, regional, and global level is how to protect
the Earth's limited store of freshwater, conserve its use, and
improve how it is managed. To do this, management decisions
must be based on understanding of the cycle of water.

IRC's revised WWD site

IRC launched on 21 February 2002 its revised World Water Day
www.worldwaterday.org web site, based on the successful WWD
2001 site it maintained with WHO on Water and Health. The
revised site links to the WWD 2002 site of the IAEA. It contains
links to water, sanitation and hygiene campaigns of the Water
Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council and IRC and partners.
The site also provides an updated Water for Development advocacy
guide, background information about previous years, a selection of
photos and links to key organizations. Visitors to the site can add
events and comments. From this site they can also go to the
events section of IAEA's WWD 2002 site. On the WWD 2001 site
more than 100 events were registered and it scored 223,868 page
views from end of January until 31 December 2001.

Poverty reduction, economic impact, improved health and reduced
drudgery for women are four of the key goals of water sanitation
and hygiene programmes. The WSSCC has launched its Water,
Sanitation and Hygiene for all - WASH campaign:
http://www.wsscc.org/about/ccnews.php?id=25 . IRC and partners
have called attention for water and the sustainable livelihoods
approach: http://www.worldwaterday.org/devpaper.html.


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