AMERICA WATER IN BRIEF

* Chilean centre-left MP Adriana Muñoz filed a motion in early October requiring large mining companies to use desalinated water in their production processes.

 The draft legislation is designed to free up valuable water resources for domestic and agricultural use.

 
* ITT Corporation has agreed to acquire Blakers Pump Engineers, an Australian distributor of its Goulds Pumps brand. Blakers’ revenues in the year ended 30 June 2011 were approximately $27 million.
 
* Andrew Benedek, the founder of wasteto- energy generator Anaergia Inc., has been busy staffing ...

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