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station flowmeter demonstration software
Demonstration software called Model 301 flowmeter has been developed by Marsh-McBirney Inc. The Model 301 is suited to flow monitoring and pump/lift station monitoring and accurately measures inflow, outflow totalization. As the Model 301 does not utilize flow sensors, fouling and grease build up problems are eliminated. Flow measurements are determined Contact: Marsh-McBirney Inc. by changes in known wet well 4539 Metropolitan Court Frevolume. Wet well changes are derick, MD 21701, USA. used in a unique algorithm Tel: +l 301 874 5599; during the “pump on” cycle to Fax: + 1 301 874 2172. update pump performance characteristics. These characteristics, along with changes in I UKPumP the wet well level, determine distributor inflow and outflow during pump acquired “on time”.
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Stockholm Water Prize awarded to WaterAid
WaterAid, UK, has been awarded the 1995 Stockholm Water Prize. The prize amounts to US$150 000. WaterAid received the prize for bringing water and sanitation facilities Axe1 Johnson International AB, to over three million people in announced today that through the world’s poorest countries, its subsidiary AxFlow AB, it has during the last three years. acquired London-based Alpha “Water-Aid has become a standard-bearer for all non-governTechnical Services Ltd. in the Alpha Technical markets and mental organisations distributes positive displace- water and sanitation sector,” ment pumps. Its main product said Alf-G6ran Dahlberg, chairlines are Waukesha circumfer- man of the Stockholm Water ential piston pumps manufac- Prize Nominating Committee. Water-Aid was chosen by a tured in the USA, and Bredel nominating committee of 5 peristaltic pumps manufacmembers appointed by the Natured in the Netherlands. AxFlow is represented in the tional Committee for Water UK by its London-based sub- Management Research within sidiary George Meller Ltd - one the Royal Swedish Academy of of the UK’s leading distributors Sciences and one person from of positive displacement pumps. the international water associaMeller’s directors will be joining tions IWSA (International Water the board of Alpha Technical. Supply Association) and IAWQ Curt Kallstrom, AxFlow’s (International Association on Managing Director said, “The Water Quality). The monitoring acquisition of Alpha Technical committee has also two cowill further strengthen Meller’s opted members, one representamarket position, not only with tive each from IVA (Swedish its additional product lines Academy of Engineering Scienbut also by opening-up new ces) and IWRA (International Water Resources Association). market sectors.”
Children at handpwmp, Mbabala - Water Aid has been awarded the 1995 Stockholm Water Prize for bringing water and sanitation facifftfes to more than 3 million people.
WORLD PUMPS
MAY 1995
Contact; George Meller Ltd, Publicity Offfce, Orion Park, Northfield Avenue, Ealing, London W13 9SJ UK. Tel: -t44 181 579 2111; Fax: + 44 181 578 7328.
Contact: MS Ann-Charlotte England, Stockholm Water Foundatfon, Amiralitetshuset, Skeppsholmen Sill 49 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel: +48 8814 3400; Fax: +46 8679 6465.