NotiAgua Vol. 29, No. 4

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PRW&EA Revista Oficial - Vol. 29, No. 4, Abril 2013
Cooperar para
CONSERVAR
Búsqueda de alternativas para cumplir con la demanda
CONVENCIÓN
AC&TE2013
Información sobre exhibidores, charlas y
empresas participantes
P. 12
ESTUDIANTES GANAN PRIMER LUGAR
EN COMPETENCIAS DE LA ASCE
Rubén O. Alayón González, EIT
P. 5
RESTAURANTES EXHORTAN
COMENSALES A BEBER AGUA DE PLUMA
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Cooperar para conservar
Hector Julián Camareno Ojeda, EIT
Editor
No pude utilizar otro, simplemente no pude. Es imperioso, es alarmante.
Como puertorriqueños, como caribeños, como latinoamericanos, como
víctimas agraciadas de nuestra circunstancia geográfica, tenemos que
despertar (igual que en tantos otros aspectos, lamentablemente).
Ante las actividades y ceremonias internacionales realizadas durante el
pasado mes de marzo, en conmemoración del Día Mundial del Agua, el
Secretario General de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) Ban
Ki-moon declaró que “el agua es vida, es fundamental para el bienestar de las personas y del planeta.”
Añadió también que “el cambio climático y una población que crece en número y en prosperidad significan
que debemos trabajar conjuntamente para proteger y gestionar este recurso frágil y limitado.”
Quiero tomar estas declaraciones y el marco de tiempo y espacio en el que nos encontramos para utilizarlos
como “pie forza’o”, como dice el jíbaro. El manejo del agua que tenemos en Puerto Rico dista de
ser costo-eficiente, quizá porque la percepción general, no sin cierto argumento histórico / estadístico
que lo respalde, es que en la Isla del Encanto abunda el agua. Fíjese lectora y lector, si abunda el agua
que llevamos años desperdiciando más del 40% de la que producimos y no hemos hecho mucho por
corregirlo. La situación se agrava al notar que la flácida industria agrícola puertorriqueña no se incluye
en la ecuación, la actividad económica que más intensamente utiliza el recurso. ¿Qué relación existe
entre el subdesarrollo de la industria agrícola y el desperdicio de agua en el País? ¿Qué pasará el día
que la agricultura se ponga de pie? ¿Cuando haya que destinar 100 millones de litros diarios a los cultivos?
Según estadísticas de ONU Agua, hasta un 50% de la población mundial podría afrontar escasez
de agua para el año 2030, es decir, dentro de poco más de 15 años. Ante potenciales situaciones de
crisis alimentaria o de agua, nuestro carácter geográfico isleño es simultáneamente nuestra condenación
y nuestra salvación. Los países continentales comparten recursos continentales, como podrían
ser ríos transnacionales, para los que tendrán que coordinar el uso de ese recurso. Sin embargo, es
poco probable que todo un continente se quede sin precipitación, así que un área podría ayudar a
otra en caso de enfrentar una sequía regional. El caso isleño, no tener vecinos contiguos, implica que
el manejo de los recursos del País recaerá exclusivamente en nosotros, que no haya que coordinar el
uso del recurso con alguien, pero ante una sequía, la cooperación con nuestros vecinos se hará más
difícil. Así que, ante el parcial aislamiento en una crisis, nos resta administrar nuestros recursos en el
modo más responsable y eficiente posible. La cooperación será clave para la supervivencia cuando la
población mundial alcance los 9000 millones de habitantes y nuestros sistemas actuales de producción
no den abasto, si no es que cambiamos nuestro modo de hacer las cosas, léase, aumentar la eficiencia
y disminuir el consumo per capita.
Es por tanto, necesaria la cooperación de los países para afrontar un problema para el que estamos
inevitablemente encaminados, y que azotará sin clemencia. Miremos al futuro con esperanza, pero
preparados para lo peor: es el mejor legado a nuestros descendientes.
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La situación se agrava al notar
que la flácida industria
agrícola puertorriqueña no
se incluye en la ecuación,
la actividad económica que
más intensamente utiliza el
recurso.
ÍNDICE
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Convención AC&TE 2013
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Por primera vez ofrecemos una lista
de todas las compañias que se
exhibirán en nuestra Convención.
Podrás encontrar información de
las empresas y agencias participantes
y su localización, tambien
presentamos el programa
preliminar de la Convención.
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Lista de exhibidores
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Desarrollando Los Futuros
Ingenieros, Arquitectos,
Gerentes de Construcción
de Puerto Rico
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A través de este programa
nuestro equipo, compuesto
por seis ingenieros con
diversas preparaciones y
con diferentes niveles de
experiencia, ofrece mentoría
a estudiantes de escuela
superior para inspirarlos y
motivarlos a perseguir una
carrera en los campos de la
ingeniería, arquitectura y la
gerencia de la construcción.
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Amplio Dominio Del RUM
En Competencias De La
ASCE
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“Hoy con su logro quizás no
salgan en primera plana de las
noticias y se publiquen otras
cosas más negativas, pero
realmente ustedes tienen que
tener dentro de su corazón
una gran satisfacción por
el logro alcanzado y por el
sacrificio realizado, que realmente
habla muy bien de su
dedicación, su competencia,
su capacidad y principalmente
del potencial que tienen para
desarrollarse en el futuro.”
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In Solar Power Lies Path To
Reduce Water Use For Energy
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The U.S. wind energy i
ndustry, which generated 35,000
megawatts last year, and has
been growing by more than 35
percent annually over the last
five years, uses no water. The
American Wind Energy Association
(AWEA), a trade group,
said in its annual report that wind
generators prevented emissions
of 62 million tons of carbon last
year, and saved 20 billion gallons
of water.
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Restaurants Encourage
Diners To Choose Tap Water
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“The Choose Tap program is
something I’m passionate about
because it not only supports the
local traders who are pushing this
sustainable movement, but it’s
giving mother nature a helping
hand, and we’re keeping ourselves
healthy at the same time.”
Esta revista se presenta en una plataforma cibernética de publicación de
documentos. A cambio de sus servicios gratuitos, esta plataforma incluye
anuncios en varios espacios de su página cibernética. Este hecho ocurre
automáticamente y sin control por parte de los usuarios y no debe tomarse
que la Puerto Rico Water & Environment Association esté endosando
alguno de los anunciantes.
NotiAgua
Héctor J. Camareno Ojeda
Editor
Gabriel de León de León
Arte Gráfico / Diagramación
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Colaboradores
Rubén O. Alayón González
Odalis De La Vega
Elpidio Gonzalez Rivera, PE
Valerie López Carrasquillo
Lourdes Morales, PE
Gretchen Gonzalez, EIT, et al
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Foto de portada por:
Julien Harneis
Bajo licencia de Creative Commons
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PRW&EA Revista Oficial - Vol. 29, No. 4, Abril 2013
Cooperar para
CONSERVAR
Búsqueda de alternativas para cumplir con la demanda
CONVENCIÓN
AC&TE2013
Información sobre exhibidores, charlas y
empresas participantes
P. 12
ESTUDIANTES GANAN PRIMER LUGAR
EN COMPETENCIAS DE LA ASCE
Rubén O. Alayón González, EIT
P. 5
RESTAURANTES EXHORTAN
COMENSALES A BEBER AGUA DE PLUMA
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Amplio dominio del
RUM
Rubén O. Alayón González, EIT
Presidente, Comité de
Estudiantes
Cerca de cuarenta estudiantes de ingeniería civil de la
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez (RUM) participaron
de la conferencia educativa Southeast Student
Conference de la American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE) del 14 al 16 de marzo. El evento se llevó a cabo
en Miami, FL, donde más de veinte otras univesidades
de la región sur de EEUU estuvieron presentes.
La edición 2013 de la Conferencia estuvo marcada
por la gran actuación de los estudiantes del RUM, que
coparon 18 premios de 15 eventos en total. Tan reciente
como el pasado año, los estudiantes del RUM
fueron los campeones de la competencia y este año, lo
repitieron. El Dr. Hiram González, consejero del capítulo
estudiantil de ASCE-RUM, mencionó que “tomaron el
reto en serio, no solo lo lograron, sino que casi duplicaron
los premios que recibieron el año pasado. Dentro de
los 18 premios obtuvimos siete primeros lugares en las
categorías, prácticamente una barrida. Yo llevo 17 años
años participando y nunca había visto una universidad
ganando tantos premios”. González fue asistido por los
profesores José Guevara, José Flores, Felipe Acosta
y Pedro Tarafa en la preparación de los equipos. Éste
agregó que “es la primera vez en la historia de la región
que una universidad gana dos veces consecutivas.”
El director del Departamento de Ingeniería Civil y
Agrimensura, Dr. Ismael Pagán Trinidad, organizó un
recibimiento el 19 de marzo en el anfiteatro del Departamento,
reconociendo la gran hazaña de los estudiantes.
“Hoy con su logro quizás no salgan en primera plana de
las noticias y se publiquen otras cosas más negativas,
pero realmente ustedes tienen que tener dentro de su
corazón una gran satisfacción por el logro alcanzado
y por el sacrificio realizado, que realmente habla muy
bien de su dedicación, su competencia, su capacidad y
principalmente del potencial que tienen para desarrollarse
en el futuro.”
en competencias de la ASCE
De entre todos los primeros lugares que este grupo
ganó, algunos de ellos Overall, Wind, Balsa Tower y
Visual Display, hay que destacar la labor de nuestros
estudiantes del capítulo estudiantil PRW&EA RUM, que
sin lugar a dudas y literalmente, removieron los escollos
en su camino para lograr el primer lugar en la categoría
de Environmental. La líder del equipo y presidenta del
Capítulo, Valerie López Carrasquillo, nos comentó que
el evento “consistía en construir un filtro que removiera
cierta cantidad de ortofosfato. ¡Logramos remover un
100% del ortofosfato en la muestra! Mis compañeras
William Cruz y Jennifer Aponte nos preparamos haciendo
bastantes pruebas semanas antes de la competencia.
Tengo que agradecer a nuestro consejero, el Dr.
Pedro Tarafa por su ayuda y supervisión y a la compañía
Industrial Scientific y a Héctor Camareno por su ayuda
con las pruebas y el equipo que utilizamos para prepararnos”.
“Sin ellos no habríamos obtenido este triunfo”,
agregó Cruz. Durante su período de preparación,
encontraron varios contratiempos que pusieron en juego
su actuación en las competencias. “Yo creí que no nos
saldría. Hicimos muchas pruebas para encontrar los
componentes correctos que debíamos poner en el filtro.
Tener un equipo que midiera ortofosfato con bastante
precisión nos ayudó mucho”, mencionó Jennifer.
La delegación colegial estuvo compuesta por: Raúl
Alexis Alicea Rivera, Jennifer Marie Aponte Rivera,
Omar David Caraballo Morales, Sergio Andrés Cardona
González, Verónica Castro Soto, Delwin Miguel Colón
Rivera, William Efraín Cruz Montes, Elizabeth M. Cruz
Ortiz, Francisco Javier Cruz Ortiz, Nérida H. De Jesús
Villanueva, Rubén F. Del Rosario Figueroa, Christian
O. Figueroa Ocasio, Natalia Garau Bolívar, Rubén
Alexis García, Joangelli González Compré, Karib M.
González Rivera, Valerie López Carrasquillo, Stephanie
Nicole López Cruz, Mayra Alejandra Martínez Díaz,
Yendeliz Martínez Ruiz, Mayra G. Mendoza Rodríguez,
Christian Ogando Reynoso, Melvin Joel Parés Torres,
Carlos A. Peña Rivera, Oscar Rivera Almeyda, Xavier
Arnaldo Rivera Hernández, Eddie Rivera Olivencia,
Jorge José Rodríguez Álvarez, Hanniah L. Rodríguez
Bartolomei, Edward C. Rodríguez Robles, Cynthia Marie
Rodríguez, Jeyrick Ruiz Acevedo, René Omar Santiago
Irizarry, Jorge L. Soto Lorenzo, Rubén Caleb Soto
Primer lugar /
Overall /
Wind /
Environmental /
Balsa Tower /
T-Shirt /
Visual Display /
Mystery /
Segundo lugar /
Steel Bridge Display /
Steel Bridge /
Lightness /
Steel Bridge Structural
Efficiency /
Concrete Canoe
Women’s Sprint /
Concrete Canoe Coed
Sprint /
/PREMIOS GANADOS POR EL EQUIPO DE RUM/
Maysonet, Randolph Sebastian Stoddard Ramos, Ignacio
Manuel Toledo Rodríguez, Yesenia M. Torres Castro,
Angeliz Vargas Medina, Christopher Velázquez Meléndez
y Oscar A. Vélez Ramos
Tercer lugar /
Steel Bridge Overall /
Geotechnical /
Concrete Canoe Design
Paper /
Concrete Canoe /
Final Product /
Concrete Canoe Women’s
Endurance /
Concrete Canoe Overall /
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AWWA org. Press
AWWA champions WIFIA
before U.S. Congress
On March 13, in testimony before
a U.S. House Congressional
Appropriations Subcommittee, the
American Water Works Association
(AWWA) called for strengthening
existing water infrastructure finance
tools and advocated for creation of
a Water Infrastructure Finance and
Innovation Authority.
Aurel Arndt, general manager of
Lehigh County Authority in Allentown,
PA, spoke on behalf of AWWA
before the Subcommittee on Interior,
Environment and Related Agencies.
“The fact that the United States
needs to invest much more in its
water infrastructure is widely accepted
these days,” he said. “The hard
question centers on how to do that.”
Calls for strengthening other water finance tools
AWWA is urging Congress to do the following:
___________________________________________________________
Keep the current tax-exempt status for municipal bonds
Eliminate the annual volume caps for private activity bonds for water
infrastructure projects
Maintain funding for robust drinking water and wastewater state
revolving loan fund programs
Enact WIFIA to offer meaningful assistance to communities in a
modern, cost-effective way at the lowest possible cost to federal
taxpayers
politicalactivitylaw.com / CC
WIFIA would lower the cost of local
water infrastructure projects at little
or no long-term cost to the federal
taxpayer. The mechanism would
borrow US Treasury funds to provide
low-interest loans, loan guarantees
or other credit support to local
communities. Loan repayments
– with interest – and guarantee fees
would flow back to WIFIA and into
the Treasury – again, with interest.
This strategy would have little or
no long-term effect on the federal
budget.
The testimony highlighted AWWA’s
2012 “Buried No Longer: Confronting
America’s Water Infrastructure
Challenge” report, which notes that
restoring and expanding existing
water systems as they reach the
end of their usefulness would cost
at least $1 trillion over 25 years.
Arndt stressed that AWWA strongly
believes the cornerstone of financing
for this undertaking should be
through local rates and charges.
However, large investments are
essential when, for example, a
treatment plant or a pipe network
reaches the end of its lifespan and
major replacement or upgrades are
necessary.
To further offer support for WIFIA,
next month AWWA will bring more
than 100 water utility managers
to Washington, D.C., for its Water
Matters! Fly-In. Utility leaders will
conduct more than 400 meetings
Jessie Owen / CC
with senators and representatives to rally support of WIFIA.
To help AWWA utility members assess their own local pipe replacement
needs, forecast the consequences for water bills and tell their own infrastructure
stories, AWWA has provided each with a Buried No Longer Pipe Replacement
Modeling Tool. This tool will be used by members to make their
cases for local water infrastructure investment and to advocate for WIFIA.
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Restaurants
encourage diners to choose tap Water
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Rosemary Ryan
Hospitality Magazine
Cafés and restaurants are joining forces in a new program aimed at promoting
the benefits of good old fashioned tap water and making Melbourne the
sustainable dining capital of Australia.
Twenty foodservice businesses in Melbourne’s Northcote have signed up to
the new Choose Tap program that’s being run by the city’s largest water utility
Yarra Valley Water.
As part of the program the businesses have pledged to offer tap water before
bottled water to their patrons, provide drinking water in reusable Choose
Tap bottles and have shop front stickers, to help reinforce the Choose Tap
message.
The Choose Tap program aims to engage the community on choosing tap
water as a positive alternative to bottled water, and as part of a healthy
lifestyle.
“The Choose Tap program is something I’m passionate about because
it not only supports the local traders who are pushing this sustainable
movement, but it’s giving mother nature a helping hand, and we’re keeping
ourselves healthy at the same time”
Launching the program on High Street in Northcote, Australian nutritionist
and Choose Tap ambassador, Lola Berry, said the Choose Tap program
supports café and restaurant owners and operators who want to make a
difference to the environment, and also helps the wider community reduce
their carbon footprint.
“The Choose Tap program is something I’m passionate about because it not
only supports the local traders who are pushing this sustainable movement,
but it’s giving mother nature a helping hand, and we’re keeping ourselves
healthy at the same time,” Berry said.
Owner of participating restaurant Two by Two, Ben Sanders said the program
echoes the sentiments of the restaurant and its customers.
“It’s quite popular and trendy these days to serve bottled water which is
crazy when we have a fantastic product that just comes out of our tap,” said
Sanders who was previously assistant restaurant manager at Melbourne’s
Press Club.
“We’re a new business and when we opened up it was part of our ethos to
buck the trend and serve just tap water and local bottled sparkling mineral
water.
“In the kitchen it’s always about local, seasonal produce, so the natural progression
is local water – Melbourne has some of the best drinking water in
the world so why not take advantage of that.”
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Suplemento de
CONVENCIÓN
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MAPA EXHIBIDORES
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EXHIBIDORES
A continuación presentamos las compañías que estarán exhibiéndose durante nuestra Convención. Esperamos que
esta información les sea de provecho y contamos con su retroalimentación para hacerlo mejor cada año.
Montañas Electric Inc.
VIP1
Provider of water quality instrumentation
and remote control and
monitoring packages for potable
water and wastewater sites and
distribution systems.
Naguabo, PR
Primavera Zero Corp.
VIP2
Solución para manejo de lodo.
Venta de equipo e instalación.
Mantenimiento preventivo y correctivo.
Nuestras líneas: Spirac (silos,
clasificadores, “conveyors”), Fluid
Dynamics (sistemas de polímeros),
Golden Harvest (compuertas), Infilco
Degremont (incineración), PCM
Pumps (bombas progresivas), Alfa
Laval (centrífugas).
Bayamón, PR
Accurate Solutions & Designs, Inc.
B32, B33
A leading business providing
services, products, solutions and
consulting services on automation,
electrical systems, process control,
control panel manufacturing, renewables
and energy conservation
to the industry and utilities. Share
your needs, as a team we will develop
the Accurate Solution.
Mayagüez, PR
Aireko Trenchless Solutions
B28v
Aireko Trenchless Solutions is a total
rehabilitation pipelining and pipe
bursting solution firm that offers its
clients sustainable environmental
infrastructure rehabilitation services
through the use of innovative trenchless
technologies.
Guaynabo, PR
Allied Moulded Products, Inc.
B10
Allied Moulded Products, Inc.
manufactures a complete line of
corrosion and UV-resistant NEMA
Type 4X and IP66 nonmetallic (fiberglass
and polycarbonate) enclosures
for indoor and outdoor industrial
applications.
Ohio, USA
Aqua Mechanics Corp.
B36
Fourteen years of experience in
sales, installation, and services of
pollution control equipment for the
water resources. We provide the
best assistance to our customers
from project conception, design,
construction and operation of their
facilities.
San Juan, PR
Aqua-Pak Systems, Inc.
B44
Especializados en manufactura,
venta e instalación de equipos para
tratamiento de agua potable, residuales,
municipales e industriales.
San Juan, PR
AquaTech Industrial, Inc.
B11, B12
Un nuevo concepto para la industria
de aguas. Contamos con la
más reciente tecnología y equipos
más eficientes para la solución de
problemas de agua. Bombas ABS
sumergibles con motor Premium-
Efficiency. Servicio es nuestro mejor
producto.
Canóvanas, PR
Badrena & Pérez, Inc.
B18
Is a local manufacturers’ representatives
firm with over sixty years of
providing service to industry and
government in Puerto Rico.
Carolina, PR
Brentwood Industries
B51
Accu-Pac biological media, tube
settlers, evaporative cooling, VOC
stripping, aerobic and anaerobic
biological treatment, biological nitrogen
removal.
Pennsylvania, USA
Caribbean Electric Service, Inc.
B61
Distribución, venta y reparación de
equipo eléctrico industrial, generadores,
motores eléctricos y todo
tipo de bombas de agua. Balance
dinámico computadorizado y
“machine shop”. Se recoge en toda
la Isla.
Mayagüez, PR
Centrysis Corporation
B62
High performance dewatering centrifuges
skid or trailer mounted.
Pennsylvania, USA
CH Caribe / CH2M Hill
B17
For cost-effective, full-spectrum
strategy, planning, design, designbuild,
operations and maintenance,
forward-thinking, program management
services and innovative
solutions to all your project needs.
San Juan, PR
CIB Corporation
B50
C.I.S.C.O. Inc.
B43
Especializados en instrumentación,
diseño y manufactura en sistema de
control automático y procesos de
agua potable y aguas usadas.
San Juan, PR
Control Power Solutions
B40
System integrators, instrumentation,
electrical services, chemical skid
manufacturing, control panel builders,
machine builders, engineering
consultants.
Cayey, PR
Cortés Industrial Organization
B55, B56
Cortés Industrial Organization, establecida
hace 35 años, se dedica
a la reparación y mantenimiento
de motores eléctricos, bombas y
generadores de todos tamaños. La
empresa rinde estos servicios en su
planta de 50,000 pies cuadrados
o en las facilidades de nuestros
clientes. Además, nuestra división,
Cortés Power Equipment distribuye
reconocidas marcas de bombas,
motores y generadores.
San Juan, PR
Engineering Parts and
Services, Inc.
B14 - B16
EPS te tiene la solución completa
para sistemas de agua potable y
tratamiento de aguas residuales.
Nos acompañarán representantes
de E+H, Emerson, Vaughan, AWI y
American Turbine.
Vega Alta, PR
Entech, Inc.
B01
ETAG Corporation
B20, B21
Operation and maintenance services
for drinking water and wastewater
treatment plants. Contract
operations, process control and
optimization specialists.
Caguas, PR
Excellent Engineering
Equipment, Inc.
B34, B35
Representantes y distribuidores de
equipos e instrumentación: medición
de flujo, presión, nivel y análisis
de agua potable, crudas y alcantarillados.
Medición de cilindros e inyección
de cloro, bombas de agua,
dosificación de químicos líquidos
y sólidos. Válvulas de control y seguridad,
“recorders / data loggers”.
Detectores de fugas, sistemas de
calibración, gerencia de señales
remotas.
Mayagüez, PR
Florida Aquastore
B60
Bolted glass-fused-to-steel and
epoxy-coated tanks, turnkey package
wastewater treatment plants.
Florida, USA
Green Innovation Technologies
B09
Ayudar a nuestros clientes a tener
mejor control de su proceso, reducir
sus costos operacionales y conservar
el recurso agua.
Guayama, PR
Gulbrandsen Puerto Rico, Inc.
B13
En Gulbrandsen ofrecemos soluciones
técnicas con productos y
servicios especializados en el área
de Control de Procesos y Tratamientos.
Además con tamos con
diez localidades adicionales de
manufactura que les garantiza una
respuesta inmediata a las necesidades
de nuestros clientes.
Dorado, PR
Herpla Engineering Corp.
B25
Huber Technology
B64
Rotomat screens, screening
treatment, complete plants, grit
treatment, screw thickener, rotary
filters.
North Carolina, USA
Industrial Scientific Corp.
B46
Empresa proactiva dedicada por
más de 40 años a proveer soluciones
a la industria de alimentos y
purificación / tratamiento de aguas
a través del suministro efectivo de
aditivos y químicos que cumplen
con las reglamentaciones de orden
global, y que le permiten al cliente
sostener la calidad y costo competitivo
de su producto final.
Cataño, PR
Ineco
B65
JP Industrial Sales Company,
Inc.
B02
Micro Tech Systems and
Controls, Inc.
B07
Micro Tech is a manufacturer’s
representative firm dedicated to
serving multiple industries for Puerto
Rico and the Caribbean, especially
water and wastewater. As a premier
supplier for these industries, we
provide high quality sales, services
and training. Our full range of products
includes flow, analytical gas
and liquid, instrumentation, controls
and automation.
San Juan, PR
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New Technology Systems
B08
NTS con más de 10 años de
experiencia dedicados a ventas,
instalación y servicio de equipos
para tratamiento de agua, enfocados
a procesos de conservación de
energía, protección del ambiente
y cumplimiento con las agencias
reguladoras, utilizando tecnologías
verdes costo-efectivas.
San Juan, PR
Performance Chemicals Company,
Inc.
B45
Our company is synonymous of
customer confidence, service,
reliability and quality. It is one of the
main providers in Puerto Rico and
the Caribbean in specialty chemicals
and products such as ion-exchange
resins, pharmaceutical and paint
raw materials, biochemicals, electroplating
chemicals and filters, among
others.
Cataño, PR
Phoenix Industrial Sales, Inc.
B66, B68
Puerto Rico Alum Corporation
B24
PRAC es una empresa puertorriqueña
con 25 años de experiencia
en el servicio, distribución y manufactura
de productos certificados
NSF para el procesamiento de agua
potable y usada, además y servicio
para torres de enfriamiento y aguas
residuales.
Peñuelas, PR
Rafael Benítez Carrillo, Inc.
B59
Distribuidor de partes y repuestos
tales como motores eléctricos, mangas
acoples, herramientas, filtros,
correas, rodamientos, lubricantes,
controles, cilindros neumáticos e hidráulicos,
bombas de agua y mucho
más.
San Juan, PR
Red Flint Sand & Gravel, LLC
B23
Filtration media: full line - sand,
gravel, anthracite, garnet and
greensand plus. Producers of sand
and gravel since 1917. Specializing
in low uniformity coefficients and
custom sizing exceeds AWWA and
ANSI / NSF specs. Package - 50-lb
bags to supersacks. Ship worldwide,
shortest lead time.
Wisconsin, USA
Roberts Filter Group
B49
Gravity filters, residuals and pretreatment,
sludge collectors, sludge
dewatering, instrumentation and
controls.
Pennsylvania, USA
Sena Corporation
B52
Severn Trent Services
B47
Siemens Industry - Water Technologies
B05
Siemens Water Technologies designs
and manufactures a broad range
of membrane products, delivering
reliable water and wastewater
treatments to municipal, industrial,
commercial and institutional customers.
Pennsylvania, USA
Tomás Cuerda, Inc.
B41, B42
TCI provides WTP and WWTP
instrumentation sales, calibration,
validation & integration along with
technical knowledge, training and
startup services for distribution
water control valves, non’revenue
water consulting (as per the AWWA
Water Audit method) and leak detection
equipment and services.
San Juan, PR
Tonka, Charlatte
B67
Universal Steel Trading
B27
USA Blue Book
B03
Ventor Corporation
B30
Founded in 1984 as a family owned
and operated business, providing
wholesale commercial, industrial
and municipal plumbing supplies.
Today, the company has evolved
into a full service plumbing supplier
(residential, commercial and industrial)
and distributor to the utility and
cosntruction industries, with branches
in Carolina and Ponce.
Ponce, PR
Viatek Corporation
B22
Fabricante, diseñador, instalador y
operador de sistemas de alcantarillado
sanitario a vacío Viavac.
San Juan, PR
VWR International
B19
VWR is a distributor for the pharma,
biotech, industrial and academia
markets in laboratory supplies,
consummables, chemicals, equipment,
laboratory furniture, safety
and production supplies and water
treatment and analysis products.
VWR also provides technical services,
calibration and storage space.
Manatí, PR
Wachs Utility Products
B06
E.H. Wachs equipment is used to
isolate, exercise and analyze water
distribution valves to address valveturning
requirements. Vacuums for
valve box excavation, extended
reach machines to operate valves
and software to manage distribution
system assets.
Illinois, USA
WACO Products
B53
Aluminum slide crates, hatches,
aluminum-fabricated specialties.
Maryland, USA
Waste Environmental
Technologies
B39
WesTech Engineering, Inc.
B54
WesTech Engineering celebrates
40 years as a recognized leader
in the manufacture of liquid-solids
separation equipment for municipal
and industrial process applications.
Surface waters, groundwater, water
reuse, drinking water, wastewater
treatment and industrial process
equipment technologies, ISO9001certified.
Utah, USA
Xylem Water Solutions - FLYGT
Products
B63
Xylem Water Solutions - FLYGT Products
is the leader in submersible
solids handling, grinders and axial
flow pumps as well as submersible
and top entry mixers and agitators.
North Carolina, USA
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EXHIBITION HOURS:
EXHIBITION HOURS: SEMINAR HOURS:
May 22
8:00am to 5:00pm
May 23
8:00am to 5:00pm
May 24
8:00am - 3:00pm
May 22
May 21
8:00am to 5:00pm
8:30am to 4:45pm
May 23
May 22
8:00am to 5:00pm
8:30am to 4:45pm
May 24 May 23
8:00am - 3:00pm 8:30am to 4:45pm
May 24
8:30am to 4:45pm
SEMINAR HOURS:
May 21
8:30am to 4:45pm
May 22
8:30am to 4:45pm
May 23
8:30am to 4:45pm
May 24
8:30am to 4:45pm
SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE
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AEMEAD
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SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE
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FEMA
Almuerzo
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FEMA
PUERTO RICO CONVENTION CENTER, SAN JUAN, PR
WEDNESDAY MAY 22, 2013 - DAY 1
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
9:45 AM -10:30 AM
10:30 AM- 11:15 AM
11:15 AM -11:30 AM
11:30 AM -1:30 PM
1:30 PM -2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM -3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM-4:15 PM
4:15 PM-6:00 PM
REGISTRATION OPEN
19TH DRINKING WATER SEMINAR
PRELIMINARY CONFERENCES ROOM A SCHEDULE
PUERTO RICO CONVENTION CENTER, SAN JUAN, PR
WELCOME/SEM INAR OVERVIEW
WEDNESDAY MAY 22, 2013 - DAY 1
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM (1) REGULATION UPDATE REGISTRATION OPEN
Eng. J. Alan Roberson Director of Federal Relations AW WA
ROOM A
(2) EPIDEMIOLOGIC TRENDS IN DRINKING W ATER
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
OUTBREAKS WELCOME/SEM INAR OVERVIEW
Dr. E. García UPR- RCM
ROOM A
(1) REGULATION
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
ROOM B
UPDATE
Eng. J. Alan Roberson Director of Federal Relations AW WA
9:45 AM -10:30 AM
(3) REVISED TCR: A HELPFUL
TO OL FO R PUBLIC HEALTH
PROTECTION
Eng. J. Alan Roberson Director
of Federal Relations AW WA
10:30 AM- 11:15 AM
(2) EPIDEMIOLOGIC TRENDS IN DRINKING W ATER
ROOM (4) O A& M OF UV SYSTEM S ROOM B
Eng. S. Je coat, CH 2M
(3) REVISED TCR: A HELPFUL
TO OL FO R PUBLIC HEALTH
PROTECTION
Eng. J. Alan Roberson Director
of Federal Relations AW WA
EXHIBIT HALL OPEN
AW ARDS LUNCHEON
11:15 AM -11:30 ROOM AM A EXHIBIT ROOM HALL B OPEN
(6) DEMOSTRATING DUAL
11:30 AM -1:30 PM
AW ARDS LUNCHEON
USE. USING SECURITY
(5) DEVELO P. OF COST
MONITO RING TECH. TO
EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE ROOM A ROOM B
TECH
ENHACE OPERATIONS AND
(6) DEMOSTRATING DUAL
QUALITY IN THE DIST.
Dr. I. Padila, UPR-RCM
USE. USING SECURITY
(5) DEVELO P. OF COST SYSTEM
1:30 PM -2:00 PM
MONITO RING TECH. TO
EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE K. Craig, HACH
TECH
ENHACE OPERATIONS AND
(7) DOING MORE WITH LESS:
QUALITY IN THE DIST.
Dr. I. Padila, UPR-RCM
SYSTEM
HOW SM ALL SYSTEM S CAN (8) SECURITY ISSUES AND BP
K. Craig, HACH
SO LVE W ATER NEED S & FO R W/WW FACILITIES -
COMPLIANCE (7) DOING MORE J.Hayes, WITH LESS: Beijer Elec.
HOW SM ALL SYSTEM S CAN (8) SECURITY ISSUES AND BP
Eng. J. Torres, RCAP
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM SO LVE W ATER NEED S & FO R W/WW FACILITIES -
COMPLIANCE
J.Hayes, Beijer Elec.
(9) FREQ UENCY OF SELF- Eng. J. Torres, RCAP
REPORTED ACUTE GI (10) STAGE 2 D/DBP
ILLNESSES IN NON PRASA (9) FREQ UENCY COMPLIANCE OF SELF- AT LO W COST
SYSTEM S REPORTED ACUTE Eng. GI K.Be l, CDM (10) STAGE 2 D/DBP
2:30 Dr. PM J. -3:00 Arce, PM UPR-Cayey ILLNESSES IN NON PRASA COMPLIANCE AT LO W COST
SYSTEM S
Eng. K.Be l, CDM
Dr. J. Arce, UPR-Cayey
REFRESHM ENT BREAK
OUTBREAKS
Dr. E. García UPR- RCM
(4) O & M OF UV SYSTEM S
Eng. S. Je coat, CH 2M
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
REFRESHM ENT BREAK
ROOM A
ROOM A
(11) PRASA INITIATIVES: COST REDUCTIONS, SUSTAINABILITY
AND ENVIRONM (11) PRASA ENTAL INITIATIVES: RESPONSIBILITY COST REDUCTIONS, SUSTAINABILITY
3:30 PM-4:15 PM
Eng. L. Ramírez, PRASA Executive AND Director ENVIRONMof ENTAL Infrastructure RESPONSIBILITY
Eng. L. Ramírez, PRASA Executive Director of Infrastructure
4:15 PM-6:00 PM NETW ORKING IN EXHIBIT NETW ORKING HALL IN EXHIBIT HALL

19 Wastewater and Environmental Seminar Preliminary
Conferences Schedule
Puerto Rico Water Environment Association
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - Day 1
TH DRINKING WATER SEMINAR
PRELIMINARY CONFERENCES
19
SCHEDULE
Wastewater and Environmental Seminar Preliminary
PUERTO RICO CONVENTION CENTER, SAN JUAN, PR
Conferences Schedule
THURSDAY MAY 23, 2013 - DAY 1
Puerto Rico Water Environment Association
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - Day 1
TH DRINKING WATER SEMINAR
PRELIMINARY CONFERENCES SCHEDULE
PUERTO RICO CONVENTION CENTER, SAN JUAN, PR
THURSDAY MAY 23, 2013 - DAY 1
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM -10:30 AM
10:30 AM- 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM -12:00 PM
12:00 PM -1:30 PM
1:30 PM -2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM -3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM-6:00 PM
REGISTRATION OPEN
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
REGISTRATION OPEN
ROOM A
ROOM A
(12) W ATER: ENERGY FO R LIFE
Mr. James Cha e, 8:30 President-Elect AM - 9:30 AMAW
WA 2012-2013 (12) W ATER: ENERGY FO R LIFE
Mr. James Cha e, President-Elect AW WA 2012-2013
(13) PLAN DE RECURSO DE AGUA EN LO S PROXIMOS 4 AÑOS
Hon. Carmen Guerrero -Secretaria DRNA (13) PLAN DE RECURSO DE AGUA EN LO S PROXIMOS 4 AÑOS
9:30 AM -10:30 AM
Hon. Carmen Guerrero -Secretaria DRNA
ROOM A ROOM B
(14) WHERE ARE WE NOW WITH
(15) NEW USEPA GUIDELINES FO R
THE LT2?
(14) WHERE ARE WE NOW WITH
W ATER REUSE AND ROLE OF UV
Eng. Javier Torres, Director 10:30 AM- 11:00 AM
THE LT2?
PRDOH Drinking Water Division
Eng. K. Eng. Be l, Javier CDM Torres, Director
PRDOH Drinking Water Division
(16) CORRECTIVE ACTIONS
REQUIREMENTS UNDER GW R AND (17) SELECTING, (16) CORRECTIVE SIZING & ACTIONS
TCR Eng. J. Alan Roberson Director DESINGNING REQUIREMENTS UV SYSTEM UNDER S GW R AND
Director of Federal 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Eng. S. TCR Je Eng. coat, J. CH Alan 2MRoberson
Director
Relations AW WA
Director of Federal
Relations AW WA
EXHIBITO RS
11:30 AM -12:00 PM
LUNCH & EXHIBITO RS
12:00 PM -1:30 PM
ROOM A ROOM B
(18) A NEW OPERATIONAL (19) BEST OPERATING PRACTICES
STRATEGY TO HELP UTILITIES FO R POTABLE (18) W ATER A NEW PUMP OPERATIONAL
LO WER DBP'S 1:30 PM -2:00
STATION
PM
TROUBLESHOOTING
STRATEGY TO HELP UTILITIES
LO WER DBP'S
Eng. O. Koelman, PAX
Mr. J. González
Eng. O. Koelman, PAX
(20) ADVANCES IN UV
(21) MONITO RSOURCE
TECHNOLO GY AND ENERGY
(20) ADVANCES W ATER UV IN UV
254 TO ENHANCE
CONSIDERATIONS
TECHNOLO OPERATIONS GY AND ENERGY
2:00 PM - 2:30 PMMs.
N. Cáceres, PRASA
Eng. K. Be l, CDM
CONSIDERATIONS
Eng. K. Be l, CDM
(23) UNNACCOUNTED FO R W ATER
(22) EUTROPHICATION - TO A
EVALUATION
VACA LAKE RESTORATION CASE
(22) EUTROPHICATION AND
- TO A
IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTROL
STORY C. González, GIT
VACA LAKE RESTORATION CASE
2:30 PM -3:00 PM
MEASURES- EL STORY YUNQC. UE González, PROJECT GIT
Eng. A. Ayuso, CSA
REFRESHM ENT BREAK
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
ROOM A
(24) CEPD PRESENTATION
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
CEPD
NETW ORKING IN EXHIBIT HALL
4:15 PM-6:00 PM
ROOM A ROOM B
EXHIBITO RS
LUNCH & EXHIBITO RS
(15) NEW USEPA GUIDELINES FO R
W ATER REUSE AND ROLE OF UV
Eng. K. Be l, CDM
ROOM A ROOM B
REFRESHM ENT BREAK
ROOM A
(24) CEPD PRESENTATION
CEPD
NETW ORKING IN EXHIBIT HALL
(17) SELECTING, SIZING &
DESINGNING UV SYSTEM S
Eng. S. Je coat, CH 2M
(19) BEST OPERATING PRACTICES
FO R POTABLE W ATER PUMP
STATION TROUBLESHOOTING
Mr. J. González
(21) MONITO RSOURCE W ATER UV
254 TO ENHANCE OPERATIONS
Ms. N. Cáceres, PRASA
(23) UNNACCOUNTED FO R W ATER
EVALUATION AND
IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTROL
MEASURES- EL YUNQ UE PROJECT
Eng. A. Ayuso, CSA
SCHEDULE
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
SCHEDULE
RegistraLon
Exhibitors
Lunch
Exhibitors
Cocktail
Dioxide
Coral
RegistraLon
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Lunch
Exhibitors
Cocktail
Dioxide
Coral

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Conferences Schedule Conferences Schedule
Puerto Rico Water Environment Puerto Rico Water Association Environment Association
Friday, May 24, 2013 Friday, - Day May 2 24, 2013 - Day 2
SCHEDULE
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
SCHEDULE
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plantas
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Lunch
President
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Cocktail
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President
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$ 100.00 $ 150.00
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Wastewater Workshop: “Taller Práctico Wastewater Interactivo Workshop: del “Taller Práctico Interactivo del
Sistema de Control de Procesos para Sistema Aguas Usadas” de Control de Procesos para Aguas $ 100.00 Usadas” $ 150.00
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Drinking Water Seminar Day One:
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Drinking Water Seminar Day Two:
Thursday, May 23, 2013
$ 150.00 $ 200.00
$ 150.00 $ 200.00
Wastewater & Environmental Seminar Wastewater Day One: & Environmental Seminar Day One:
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
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Friday, May 24, 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013
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In Solar Power Lies Path to
Reduce Water Use for Energy
Nicholas L. Cain
Circle of Blue
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California’s Mojave Desert, which drivers cross on Interstate 15 between Los Angeles and Las Vegas,
encompasses 20 million acres of land and three national parks, hosts 2,500 species of plants and
animals, is shadowed by mountain ridges that rise to nearly 12,000 feet, and has the largest collection
of solar thermal power plants in the world.
Between 1984 and 1991, Luz International Ltd., a Los Angeles—based engineering company, developed
and built nine solar electricity generating stations in the Mojave that produce a total of 354 megawatts,
about the same amount as a small coal-fired utility.
Six years ago Arnold Goldman, the founder of Luz, formed BrightSource Energy, moved the company
to Oakland, and got busy modernizing the design and preparing for the biggest dash for cash ever
seen in the solar thermal industry.
Developers have presented the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which oversees almost
all of the Mojave, with 75 applications to build solar facilities in the desert that could affect 647,000
acres, according to Here Comes The Sun, a March 2009 study by Oregon State University graduate
students. The California Energy Commission is close to final decisions on the first five solar thermal
plants—including one proposed by BrightSource—that together would span 22,000 acres, generate
2,470 megawatts and cost roughly $15 billion.
The BLM is reviewing 33 other solar power plant applications in Arizona that cover 452,000 acres of
federal land in the Sonoran Desert, mostly in the south and southwest sections of the state, according
to a 21-page report released in July by Senator John Kyl (R-Ariz.). Of those proposed plants, 29 would
use some form of solar thermal technology. Ten more applications for solar plants are under review by
state environmental authorities in Arizona.
Southern Nevada is the focus of 63 utility-scale solar plants, according to the BLM.
Solar’s Water Risks,
Alternatives
Tens of billions of dollars are
on the table for steam generator
builders like Siemens
and General Electric Co., for
contractors like Bechtel Corp.,
and thousands of skilled workers
anxious to earn paychecks
building big showcases of
what’s possible in the emerging
clean energy economy. But also
in play is the credibility of the
Obama administration, which is
issuing billion-dollar loan guarantees
and fast tracking projects
on federal land, as well as
whether utility-scale solar plants
can significantly reduce environmental
risks and still provide
southern California home and
business owners competitivelypriced
electricity.
On that last point there is some
dispute. In the competition between
energy and water, none
of the market-ready energy
alternatives are free of environmental
risks, and only a handful
eliminate concerns about water
withdrawals from lakes, rivers
and aquifers, as well as water
consumption from evaporation.
Solar photovoltaic power, which
generates energy directly from
sunlight, uses virtually no water.
Six utility-scale solar PV plants were put online last year in the United
States, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), a
trade group.
The U.S. wind energy industry, which generated 35,000 megawatts
last year, and has been growing by more than 35 percent annually
over the last five years, uses no water. The American Wind Energy
Association (AWEA), a trade group, said in its annual report that wind
generators prevented emissions of 62 million tons of carbon last year,
and saved 20 billion gallons of water.
Also coming online is energy generated from wave power that does
not use fresh water. The country’s first utility-scale wave power project
is the 1.5-megawatt wave energy park located 2.5 miles off the
Oregon coast near Reedsport. It uses PowerBuoys, manufactured in
Oregon, that move up and down with wave motion, causing an internal
piston-like structure to drive an electrical generator.
Solar thermal designs that focus sunlight on water to generate steam
to power turbines eliminate climate-changing emissions. They also
eliminate the need to produce coal, natural gas and uranium, all of
which are significant sources of land damage, as well as air and water
pollution.
But utility scale plants cover thousands of acres. The Center for Biological
Diversity and the local chapter of the Sierra Club assert that the
big solar plants, photovoltaic or concentrated solar power (CSP), will
damage sensitive plants and put more pressure on the endangered
desert tortoise.
More significantly, researchers at several federal agencies and in
Congress have expressed concern about supplies of water that the
concentrated solar plants use for cooling, water that is already scarce
in the desert regions of California, the Southwest and the Rocky
Mountain states. Solar thermal plants that use conventional cooling
technology withdraw 98 percent less water from aquifers and rivers
than coal and nuclear plants, and 90 percent less than natural gasfired
power plants, according to the Department of Energy. But they
consume through evaporation from cooling three times as much water
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as a coal-fired power plant. A conventionally cooled solar thermal plant uses
740 to 890 gallons to generate one megawatt hour of electricity. A conventionally
cooled coal plants uses 200 to 300 gallons, according to the Energy
Department.
In May, Sen. Kyl issued a report on water supplies and solar thermal plants
that further clarified these concerns. The Energy Department’s National
Renewable Energy Laboratory, said the report, estimated that by 2050 CSP
plants could produce 53 gigawatts of electricity—enough to power tens
of millions of homes in states like Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada
and Texas. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service estimated that
the total water use for these projects, using conventional cooling methods,
would be 164 billion gallons of water a year. That’s roughly the same amount
of water that the entire U.S. coal-fired utility industry consumes in 50 days.
Arizona, California Set Solar Pace
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In Arizona, the CSP plants would
consume about a third — an
estimated 53 billion gallons of
water a year — “representing the
largest percentage of any state’s
water requirement to produce solar
power,” according to the Kyl report.
National Park Service Director Jon
Jarvis warned the BLM in a formal
memorandum last year that federal
approval of dozens of solar plants in
southern Nevada could affect water
supplies across the region.
“Arizona lawmakers have an
obligation to protect the state’s
limited water supply and put its
water resources to their highest and
best use,” said the authors of the
Kyl report.” Using Arizona’s water
supplies to produce conventional
CSP that will most likely be exported
out of state does neither.”
“Despite the seriousness of water
constraints,” the report added,
“solar power companies have
largely ignored water concerns and
continue to propose water-intensive
conventional CSP plants in Arizona.”
Solar photovoltaic power plants use
virtually no water
In California, the state energy
commission has responded to
such concerns by requiring waterconserving
air-cooled systems.
BrightSource’s proposed 370-megawatt
Ivanpah Solar Electrical
Generating System plant will use
100 acre-feet or 32.5 million gallons
of water a year, or about what a
similar-size coal-fired plant consumes
in a few days.
“One hundred acre feet of water is
not a lot of water, but given the arid
location, project developers and
regulators must ensure there are
no irreversible local impacts,” said
Peter H. Gleick, president of the
Pacific Institute, one of the nation’s
foremost water research organizations
and Circle of Blue’s parent.
Indeed, say authorities, when
compared to conventional coal and
nuclear powered thermal plants,
the BrightSource solar generating
station by itself is a water miser.
The same is true for the $6 billion,
1,000-megawatt Blythe Solar
Power Project in Riverside County
that is nearing final federal and
state approval. It will use 196 million
gallons of water a year. The nearly
same size 995-megawatt Cholla
Power Plant in northeastern Arizona
near Holbrook, withdraws and uses
nearly 43 million gallons of water a
day.
California, according to the Energy
Information Administration, is home
to 1,102 megawatts of utility-scale
solar generating capacity, which is
most of the solar generating capacity
in the U.S. The next highest state
is New Jersey, with 128 megawatts
of solar generating capacity. Last
year, according to the Energy
Department, 25 new solar thermal
and photovoltaic plants came on
line or began construction, and will
add 145 megawatts of generating
capacity. This year, 13 more solar
plants are scheduled to come online
or begin construction, and add 468
megawatts of capacity.
When compared to development
in the fossil fuel sector, solar’s
additional capacity is tiny. In 2009
and 2010, utilities added 25 new
coal-fired plants that have a generating
capacity of 11,000 megawatts,
said the Energy Department. And
186 natural gas-fired plants were
under development during the same
period that generate over 21,000
megawatts.
The sun, in other words, accounts
for well under one percent of all
electricity in a country that has over
1 million megawatts of electrical
generating capacity, according to
the Energy Department.
California authorities are anxious to
change that. On August 25, the California
Energy Commission approved
the construction of the proposed
250-megawatt Beacon Solar
Energy Project, the first solar thermal
power project permitted in 20
years. The last solar thermal power
plants that the Energy Commission
approved were Luz Solar Electric
Generating Systems (SEGS) IX and
Luz SEGS X in February 1990.
Earlier, on Aug. 3 a three-member
panel of the California Energy
Commission recommended that
the full five-member board grant
BrightSource a construction permit
for the Ivanpah plant. The BLM
must also approve construction.
But that decision is expected to
be a formality. The BLM earlier this
month released a favorable environmental
impact statement, and in
February, the Obama administration
awarded BrightSource a $1.37
billion loan guarantee to build the $3
billion plant.
The BrightSource design could set
a new industry standard for electrical
generation and water conservation.
It uses a “power tower”
surrounded by curved mirrors to
focus solar energy on a boiler. In
filings with the state, BrightSource
said it will obtain the water needed
by the facility from on-site wells.
Water will be filtered before being
used to rinse mirrors or added to
the generation process. Runoff from
mirror-washing will be used to irrigate
landscaping.
“One of the significant advantages
of power tower technology,” according
to Keely Wachs, the company’s
senior director of communications,
“is the ability to produce superheated
steam, which reduces the
efficiency impact to the overall plant
when dry cooling.”
Weighing the Environmental Costs,
Benefits
Ileene Anderson, a biologist and
public lands director for the Center
for Biological Diversity (CBD), a wildlife
conservation group, still worries
about “overdrawing groundwater
aquifers in the Mojave” and nearby
regions and that the Ivanpah project
is “in the wrong location.”
“Springs in the Clark Mountains are
just south and west of the project
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site,” Anderson said. “We’re very much in favor
of solar energy and getting off fossil fuels,
but the projects must be sited appropriately.”
BrightSource, in response, noted that it
selects sites that are “near roads and existing
transmission lines.” The Ivanpah project
is within five miles of an existing natural gas
power plant and is “bisected by a transmission
corridor containing three power lines,”
said the company in an email message.
The Natural Resources Defense Council
(NRDC), in a January 2009 letter to the energy
commission, noted that other area users
of groundwater, including a neighboring golf
course, had suffered from brackish water
intrusion to their wells. Brackish water often
contains salt or other minerals and is thus not
usable for irrigation.
As to concerns raised by the NRDC that an
increase of groundwater pumping could harm
the Primm Valley golf course, Gleick noted
that, “If I had a choice of where to ‘spend’ my
water in the desert, and we do, as a state, I’d
far rather see it go to producing solar energy
than lush golf greens.”
Indeed, in the competition between energy
and water, other states are also grappling
with the solar tradeoffs. Solar Millennium AG,
a developer of utility scale solar projects,
recently decided to change the design of
a large solar thermal project it planned for
Nevada from wet to dry cooling.
Environmentalists are mixed about whether
the affects of solar-thermal outweigh the
benefits.
“Sierra Club supports the most efficient
power generation technology, but we look at
individual projects on a case-by-case basis,”
noted spokesman David Graham-Caso.
“We’re looking for anything that can help
utilities move off coal.”
Anderson of the Center For Biological Diversity
notes that although the scale and potential
affects of planned solar-thermal projects are a
concern, in the “appropriate places” the projects
should go forward because “species will
be affected by climate change as well, even in
the Mojave area. “
Nicholas L. Cain is an environmental researcher
who is studying for a PhD in political
science at Claremont Graduate University. He
is a former employee of the Pacific Institute.
Read more of our Choke Point: U.S. coverage
on Circle of Blue.
Desarrollando a los Futuros Ingenieros, Arquitectos
y Gerentes de Construcción de Puerto Rico
Lourdes Morales, PE
Gretchen Gonzalez, EIT
Jorge Rodríguez, EIT
Melissa Pomales, PE
Emeliz Torres, EIT
Orlando Sánchez
En agosto de 2012 MP Engineers
of Puerto Rico (MPPR) comenzó su
participación en el ACE Mentor Program.
A través de este programa
nuestro equipo, compuesto por seis
ingenieros con diversas preparaciones
y con diferentes niveles de
experiencia, ofrece mentoría a estudiantes
de escuela superior para
inspirarlos y motivarlos a perseguir
una carrera en los campos de la
ingeniería, arquitectura y la gerencia
de la construcción. Este es nuestro
primer año participando en el
programa y hemos tenido la dicha
de trabajar con seis estudiantes de
12mo grado de la Escuela Especializada
en Ciencias y Matemáticas
University Gardens High School
(UGHS) localizada en Río Piedras,
San Juan.
Como parte de los trabajos
del programa, los
estudiantes
deben identificar y trabajar un
proyecto que les permita desarrollar
destrezas y aplicar conceptos relacionados
a estas tres profesiones.
Luego de evaluar diferentes alternativas,
el equipo de MPPR-UGHS
escogió un proyecto enfocado en
el área de tratamiento de agua
potable. El proyecto consiste en
evaluar posibles alternativas para
mejorar el servicio de agua potable
en el sistema de agua público (non-
PRASA) de la comunidad Pepe
Hoyos localizada en el municipio de
Cayey. Los estudiantes completaron
la planificación conceptual para dos
alternativas: (1) mejoras al sistema
existente operado por la comunidad
y (2) conexión al sistema existente
de agua potable de la Autoridad de
Acueductos y Alcantarillados de PR
(AAA).
El pasado viernes, 1 de marzo,
se realizó una visita técnica a la
comunidad Pepe Hoyos y a dos
instalaciones de la AAA.
Personal de la AAA y
del Departamento de
Salud (DS) nos acompañó
durante el día.
El personal de la AAA
ofreció
detalles sobre el monitoreo remoto,
los parámetros que se recopilan,
y los análisis que se ejecutan para
optimizar la operación de las plantas
con el objetivo de proveer agua
potable segura a todos sus clientes.
Por otra parte, el personal del
DS ofreció una charla sobre los
conceptos básicos incluidos en la
reglamentación de agua potable, y
sobre la importancia del buen uso
del agua y de la protección de las
fuentes de abasto para evitar la
contaminación.
La visita técnica continuó con un
recorrido y levantamiento de datos
en la comunidad Pepe Hoyos. Allí
los estudiantes tuvieron la oportunidad
de inspeccionar los distintos
componentes del sistema comunal,
incluyendo la fuente de agua cruda
y el tanque de distribución, y de
entrevistar a miembros de la comunidad.
Los estudiantes tomaron
medidas, distancias y puntos de

georeferenciación para el desarrollo de las
alternativas.
Concluimos la visita técnica en la Planta de
Filtros (PF) Cayey Urbana donde el personal
de la AAA brindó una orientación sobre el
proceso de tratamiento convencional típico
en las PF y luego se llevó a cabo un recorrido
por las instalaciones.
Esperamos completar el desarrollo de las
alternativas y planificación conceptual para
mayo de 2013. Los estudiantes tendrán la
oportunidad de presentar su análisis y sus
recomendaciones a un foro multisectorial.
Los estudiantes con el mayor desempeño y
dedicación durante el programa serán elegibles
para obtener becas para sus estudios
universitarios.
Queremos agradecer al personal de la AAA y
del DS que nos dieron el apoyo durante este
esfuerzo; al Sr. Jorge Burgos de la Comunidad
Pepe Hoyos; val Sr. Norberto Hernández
maestro de matemáticas de UGHS; y sobre
todo a los estudiantes que forman parte de
este gran equipo de trabajo.
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COMPETENCIA
DE SABORES DE AGUA 2013
La mejor agua es de Guzmán
La planta de tratamiento de agua potable Guzmán Arriba de Río
Grande fue la ganadora en una cerrada contienda en el tradicional
Tap Water Taste Test, celebrado el pasado 22 de marzo en
Plaza Las Américas. Aquí les dejamos con algunas imágenes del
evento.
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