BNamericas Launches Water & Waste Industry News Service for Latin America.Business Editors SANTIAGO, Chile--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2001 Latin American business and industry news provider BNamericas.com has launched a daily online news service covering the region's water and waste industries, which was spun off from the company's existing Environment and Infrastructure sectors. "This cost effective service has been devised to provide accurate and timely reporting to professionals in Latin America's fast growing environmental sanitation sector, thereby laying the foundations for a sector-specific online community," BNamericas.com sales director James Newbold said. "We'll be keeping company executives, investors, consultants and analysts abreast of opportunities in construction and engineering projects, as well as equipment and technology to expand waterworks waterworks: see water supply. and waste treatment services across Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. ," Water & Waste editor David Casallas said. Latin America's general lack of basic sanitation services means the regional environmental sanitation services market will be worth some US$18bn through 2005, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent study by Washington D.C.-based CG/LA Infrastructure. In Brazil alone, revenue from the water/wastewater industry will surpass US$5.5bn this year, while the services and equipment market will add US$2.2bn, a 20% increase over record 2000 levels. BNamericas.com's Water & Waste coverage will span drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. supply, construction and financing of the necessary infrastructure, concessions, privatizations and rates. Sewage treatment will also feature, as will irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. , desalination desalination or desalting Removal of dissolved salts from seawater and from the salty waters of inland seas, highly mineralized groundwaters, and municipal wastewaters. and waterway remediation. On the waste side, coverage will include solid waste (residential, industrial and hospital) collection, treatment and final disposal, including landfills, incineration incineration the act of burning to ashes. , recycling, waste-to-energy and waste reduction programs. Liquid waste coverage will include collection, treatment and final uses given to domestic and industrial waste liquids. ABOUT BNAMERICAS.COM Since its inception five years ago as Latin America's first online industry-specific news provider, Business News Americas (BNamericas.com) has built up a loyal client base of top-level executives. Today the company's 35 journalists, editors and researchers - based in Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Argentina - produce 180 stories per day, following company, project and industry developments. Last month, readers of Latin Trade magazine voted BNamericas.com the best online source of business news for CEOs. Articles are published online in English, Spanish and Portuguese, in 10 clearly defined sectors: Telecommunications, Ecommerce, Banking, Privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned , Electric Power, Oil & Gas, Mining, Metals, Infrastructure and now Water & Waste. Online access is complemented by a company profile database called FactFile, searchable archives and financial information. |
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