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Smart Utility Systems Addresses Drought Crisis Through Silicon Valley Water & Energy Innovation Center And Smart H2O Mobile App

2015-07-30 08:37:00| publicworks Home Page

Smart Utility Systems (SUS), an award-winning provider of SaaS technology solutions for utilities, recently announced two important milestones in its commitment to solving today’s most critical water and energy conservation challenges, with the inauguration of its Water & Energy Innovation Center in Santa Clara and the launch of its new Smart H2O mobile app.

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Sao Paulo water crisis adds to Brazil business woes

2015-02-12 03:15:18| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Sao Paulo's water crisis hobbles Brazilian business

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Sao Paulo water crisis adds to Brazil business woes

2015-02-12 03:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: Renato Soares has seen all sorts of problems in the 33 years he has been running a small laundry in a middle-class neighbourhood in Sao Paulo. But with Brazil's biggest city facing potential water rationing, he thinks his biggest headache may be about to arrive. "We have survived recession, hyperinflation, arbitrary changes in legislation and a complex bureaucracy and tax system," Mr Soares says. "We were also robbed twice. So at this point I didn't think a day would come in which I would...

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Election-year water crisis taking toll Brazil's economy

2014-11-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: After a grueling election campaign in which officials faced fierce criticism for downplaying the effects of a year-long drought, Brazil's most populous state is finally coming to terms with an uncomfortable reality: it is running out of water. So Paulo state accounts for a third of Brazil's economy and 40 percent of its industrial production, and the water crisis is already crimping factory and farm output as well as the service sector in a stagnant economy. "There is absolutely no doubt that...

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