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World Environment Day 2010 June 04, 2010 09:50
World Environment Day promotes positive, environmental action. Giving a human face to environmental issues enables people to realise not only their responsibility, but also their ability to become agents for change in support of a sustainable future.
United Nations World Environment Day
World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Another resolution, adopted by the General Assembly the same day, led to the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Commemorated each year on June 5, World Environment Day is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. With thousands of events in UNEP's six global regions, namely, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, West Asia and Europe, World Environment Day is considered one of the largest environmental events of its kind. Since 1972, 36 World Environment Day celebrations have been held around the globe. World Environment Day 2010 in Pittsburgh will mark the 37th annual celebration.
Think Water
Water is the most important natural resource in the world since without it life cannot exist and most industries could not operate. However, it’s only in the last decade that environmental sustainability has become endemic in mainstream media. Indeed, every month we are now exposed to a plethora of environmental monitoring-related topics in the media, and of accelerated climate change, for which the two aspects are inextricably linked, meaning that the public interest in this area continues to grow exponentially.
Generating an estimated four to six per cent of the world’s greenhouse gases, the management of the water sector is crucial to the world’s economy. Indeed, nearly every industry from electric power to agriculture requires a regular supply of clean water. In light of the global economy more than doubling in size over the past 50 years, the current models for industrial development and water supply are not sustainable with respect to meeting climate change management targets.
In the BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia, India and China), the market for water products is growing at approximately 20% per annum. These countries constitute 15% of the economic size of today’s G6, but they are expected to grow to surpass today’s G6 in less than 40 years’ time. As we have witnessed over the past several decades, unchecked industrial development can have profound detrimental effects on environmental standards, with water pollution often the source of wider reaching economic and public health effects.
Pollution Control
Wagtech's extensive experience in manufacturing field monitoring instruments, is now supported by that of Palintest Ltd, a leading manufacturer of both water quality instruments and reagents. The Wagtech-Palintest product range provides our customers with a complete range of tools to monitor the quality of water for assessing it's potability and to predict potential contamination. New products launched this year include the Maji-Meter, portable multi-parameters water quality meter.
Developed and designed in the UK, Wagtech and Palintest experts have created a cost effective solution for the in-situ and simultaneous monitoring of 11 key parameters of water quality: Conductivity, Depth, Dissolved Oxygen, ORP, pH, Resistivity, Salinity, Seawater Specific Gravity, Total Dissolved Solids, Temperature, and Turbidity.
This is just one of a whole range of new products being developed by Palintest, and Wagtech customers will now continue to receive the high level of service quality they are used to from Wagtech, supported by industry leading research and development at Palintest.
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