H2OAlliance S.A.V.E Working Group This working group is an independent New-Tech Business Forum advancing education, training and transfer of new-technology.
We invite you to join us.
Benefits
People around the world are anxious about what is happening to their freshwater supply. In response to growing public concern, S.A.V.E. Environmental Working Group was formed in October 2007. We
advance use of new-technology to monitor water quality, help conserve freshwater, and prevent major threats to water sources in the
environment. Resource efficiency frees up water supplies for other uses such as population growth, new industry, and environmental conservation. We have a commitment to conserve freshwater and protect the environment, and the purpose of the team is to ensure that this commitment is evident in our actions. Our Working Group in Action
- We execute water management plans and programs with companies, organizations and communities;
- We advance use of new-technology;
- We document our success on water quality monitoring, conservation, management, and waste minimization;
- We influence companies and communities regarding environmental stewardship and freshwater protection;
- We involve companies, organizations, professionals, and inform them of our efforts.
Our Role
- We help implement online platforms, systems and networks;
- We manage pilot projects;
- We introduce new water conservation practices, techniques, and new-tech to improve the efficiency of industrial water use;
- We deliver affordable state-of-art water monitoring systems to companies worldwide;
- We ensure all environmental regulatory requirements are met or exceeded;
- We audit the performance of systems, and operations;
- We develop and implement metrics for measuring our progress in environmental water monitoring performance;
- We support companies to execute the overall water strategy.
Working Groups
Climate Change
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We solve problems caused by:
- Waterborne Pathogents; outbreaks of infectious diseases related to drinking water caused by waterborne pathogens;
- Algae Water Pollution; the environmental factors playing a role in temperature and light levels, changing water levels, and varying amounts of nutrients;
- Pesticides; groundwater and surface water contamination;
- Persistent Organic Pollutants and Mercury; the movement of persistent organic pollutants and Mercury in the environment, the toxicology of persistent organic pollutants, and the relationship between amounts of compounds measured and their biological effects;
- Endocrine Disrupting Substances; EDS drugs, pesticides, industrial chemicals, metals and natural compounds found in municipal, agricultural, textile, pulp and paper, and mining effluents;
- Nitrogen and Phosphorus; algal blooms and toxin production, and taste and odor problems, aquatic life problems in lakes, rivers, and wetlands;
- Aquatic Acidification; acid rain and acidification interaction with other stressors such as climate change;
- Ecosystem Effects of Genetically-Modified Organisms; microbes used to restore contaminated sediments and genetically-modified crops;
- Municipal Waste Water Effluents; waste water management, sludges applied to agricultural lands and possible effects on local surface and groundwater quality;
- Industrial Point Source Discharges; the impacts of effluents that threat water quality, and human health, effluents that are complex mixtures of hundreds of compounds that can cause chronic toxicity to aquatic organisms. The discharges that can result in chronic effects of metals, bioaccumulation, sediment contamination, and endocrine disruption, cooling water, toxic by-products, hydrophobic and persistent often contaminating sediments in nearby waters;
- Urban Runoff; detect contaminants and microbial pollutants in the urban environment including storm water, raw sewage and scoured sewage discharged into receiving waters;
- Landfills and Waste Disposal; the movement of contaminants through ground and surface waters and the long-term release of nutrients and metals from biosolids. The
mobility of new chemicals such as persistent organic pollutants and
endocrine disrupting substances in landfills polluting ground water
sources;
- Agricultural and Forestry Land Use Impacts; the nutrient, pathogen, pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting compounds that enter surface and ground waters;
- Natural Sources of Trace Element Contaminants; arsenic, fluoride, and radioactivity in groundwater;
- Impacts of Dams, Diversions and Climate Change; major changes in water quantity and quality caused by variations in climate (warming or cooling), water level decline in ponds, lakes and dugouts, changes in water chemistry, and interactions between changes to the hydrologic cycle and the quality of aquatic habitats;
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