TAPPING AGENCY'S EXPERTISE : FOREIGN VISITORS TOUR WATER TREATMENT PLANT.Byline: Teresa Jimenez Daily News Staff Writer Iskander Holmuradov traveled thousands of miles from his home in Uzbekistan, part of the former Soviet Union, only to end up in the same dry climate he left - but it's been the best part of the journey for the water expert who knows California's resource problems well. Holmuradov and 16 others, who were chosen by the U.S. Department of Commerce for its Special American Business Internship internship /in·tern·ship/ (in´tern-ship) the position or term of service of an intern in a hospital. internship, n the course work or practicum conducted in a professional dental clinic. Training program, toured the facilities of the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District on Wednesday, hoping to glean glean v. gleaned, glean·ing, gleans v.intr. To gather grain left behind by reapers. v.tr. 1. To gather (grain) left behind by reapers. 2. knowledge and ideas they can implement back home. For Holmuradov, that meant getting ideas about technology and education programs that will allow him to provide a reliable water source to residents of Buchara City, a dry region that, like Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , relies on imported water from hundreds of miles away. For the Las Virgenes water district staff, it meant showing off their top-quality facilities as part of a national program created in 1990 through the Freedom Support Act designed to help the Newly Independent States New·ly Independent States Abbr. NIS The countries that until 1991 were constituent republics of the USSR, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. with restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). following the Cold War. ``The water district has won awards, but to have the U.S. Department of Commerce say, `This is what we want to show others,' it validates what we've done. And (to think that the interns  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . ) want to be where we are,'' said Arlene Post, public information officer for the water district. The visit to the Calabasas water district, which buys water from the California Water Project but treats wastewater and recycles, provided Holmuradov with an abundance of ideas for conserving water and changing distribution. The two-month-long internship program included stops in Norfolk, Va., the Wisconsin Dells Wisconsin Dells may refer to:
``Everything was interesting up until now, but the highlight has been here in California,'' Holmuradov, director of industrial management for the Vodokanal in Buchara City, said through an interpreter A high-level programming language translator that translates and runs the program at the same time. It translates one program statement into machine language, executes it, and then proceeds to the next statement. . ``I'm working on problems with 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. treatment. We need to solve the problem of importing water. One solution I saw today was the man-made reservoir. The water is treated before it goes into the reservoir, which makes it easier. We bring it in untreated and then treat it in the city. It makes it much more difficult.'' Holmuradov observed other methods, as well. In Uzbekistan, water is transported to fields through canals rather than pipes, causing a good portion of the resource to be wasted. Holmuradov said he'd like to change that. He also would like to see more recycled water at home used to water fields, just as the Las Virgenes district does. ``I saw a very fine plan and implementation of water conservation here,'' Holmuradov said. ``Water is very expensive in Uzbekistan because it is such a limited resource.'' The 17 interns went through a competitive application process to participate in the program, which pays for the participants' airline flights, food, transportation and housing, said Liza Shields, international trade specialist for the U.S. Department of Commerce who organizes the program. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--Color) Visitors from the Special American Business Internship Training program tourthe Tapia Water Reclamation Reclamation A claim for the right to return or the right to demand the return of a security that has been previously accepted as a result of bad delivery or other irregularities in the delivery and settlement process. Facility in Calabasas on Wednesday. (2--Ran in Simi edition only) At the Tapia Water Reclamation Facility, foreign water officials got ideas about new technologies. Andy Holzman/Special to the Daily News |
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