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  • Fla. drought renews pressure to fix Glades (USA Today)The 18-month dry spell means continued pressure on Florida's utilities to find alternative sources of clean water, such as desalinizing sea water. It also has put renewed pressure on water managers to hasten efforts to engineer nature to work more naturally.


  • Engineer Injured By Exploding Firecracker Tossed Into Train (WISN TheMilwaukeeChannel.com via Yahoo! News) A freight train engineer was seriously injured when a couple of teenagers hurled firecrackers into a moving train, police said..


  • MDOT names new district engineer (Hattiesburg American)The Mississippi Department of Transportation has announced the appointment of Steve Twedt to the position of district engineer for the Sixth District headquartered in Hattiesburg, according to Deputy Executive Director Harry Lee James.


  • Drain deaths: Kin of victims to get Rs 1 lakh (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News)While the Vadodara Municipal Corporation authorities might have dismissed it as an unfortunate incident, there is some relief for Afsar Saiyed, the Uttar Pradesh based engineer who drowned to death in a rain water filled stormwater drain. Vadodara District Collector Rajiv Topno said the kin of Saiyed and another rain related death victim, will be given Rs 1 lakh each as compensation as per the ...


  • Jay Monroe; engineer who invented Tensor lamp; 80 (San Diego Union-Tribune)Jay Monroe, an engineer whose wife's discontent over the strong light he needed for bedtime reading provoked him to invent a high-intensity, low-voltage mini-lamp whose use spread to desks, jewelers' worktables, limousines and far beyond, died June 12 at his home in Sands Point, N.Y. He was 80.


  • 842nd Engineer Company getting new leader - Military News, Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, ... (Army Times)SPEARFISH, S.D. ? The 842nd Engineer Company of the South Dakota Army National Guard is getting a new commander Sunday. Capt. Steven Polzen of Rapid City will take charge of the unit during a change of command ceremony at the Donald E. Young Sports and Fitness Center in Spearfish.


  • Columbia resident inducted into Order of the Engineer at UT-Martin (Columbia Daily Herald)University of Tennessee at Martin engineering graduates were inducted into the Order of the engineer at a ceremony prior to spring commencement. Graduates pledged to be ethical and impartial and adhere to safety codes as they enter the engineering profession.


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