Cla-Val articles

For all the historical and natural charm of Greenville, S.C., efforts to serve the city`s water customers were hampered by raw water management challenges at a nearby reservoir. A new automatic flow control valve provided Greenville Water, City of Greenville Commission of Public Works, with a customized solution.

Greenville is situated about halfway between Charlotte, N.C., and Atlanta, up against the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. With its natural beauty, Southern traditions,

In 1998 Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia and home to over 1.5 million people, was running out of water. To avert the looming crisis, the NRW-PBC project was implemented. With a pilot phase (Phase 1) this ran for 18 months with a target to reduce NRW by some 18.5 MLD. After successful implementation of this phase, the contractor was awarded phase 2, which had an implementation period of 9 years and a target to save 198.9 MLD.

In 2007, Maynilad Water Services faced an enormous challenge. They were tasked with providing 100% service coverage in the next few years and connecting an additional 3 million people who lacked access to piped water. All this and effectively no additional water resource.

The Statue of Unity is a colossal statue of Indian Statesman and Independence activist Vallabhbhai Patel, (1875 -1950). Patel was highly respected for his leadership in uniting the 562 princely states of India to become the single Union of India. Announced in 2010, the statue is the world`s tallest at 240 metres and was built to withstand winds up to 180 km per hour and earthquakes up to 6.5 on the Richter scale. The project took 57 months to complete at a cost of US $540 Million.

The Te Anau Wastewater upgrade project, located on the South Island of New Zealand, has just oeen successfully completed! While you may not normally associate wastewater projects with our automatic control valves, this job was a little bit special.

In 2005 it could be said that Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, was losing nearly 50% of its produced water from leakage in the network. Jakarta is a sprawling city of around 12 million residents (at that time), and towards the end of the 1990s the management of the network had been privatized into two separate concessions. This paper is based on the section managed by the Palyja, a Suez Group company.

Discussions around "calm networks" usually focus on Municipal networks, however, tnis is not always the case. It is often
sa`o that "a cneck valve "s a check va ve" but those who know, a`~e we I aware that this is almost never the case and that each different style of check valve is designed to be used in specific applications.