Three years later she decided to go directly into selling her own water-treatment systems.
Working out of a small office with two employees, she started by distributing water-treatment equipment.
The trouble, says the government, is that the country's water-treatment plants are in disrepair.
Starting with small projects, such as a water-treatment system for Singapore's bird zoo, she gradually got bigger and better projects.
Lum is now actively looking to break into India, where authorities may finally allow foreign companies to bid for water-treatment projects.
The Paulton side includes a mechanic, a water-treatment engineer and three players who work for manager Jones at his wholesale flower business in Bristol.
Their firms are hobbled by the costs of building their own infrastructure: backup generators, water-treatment plants and fleets of buses to ferry staff to work.
One problem with the water-treatment industry: extra-long sales cycles.
When the Department of Environmental Protection noticed hydrogen sulfide in the city's water supply, Stephen Hollowell, general manager of Steinhatchee's chlorine-based water-treatment plant, and his board were willing to a take a chance on new technology.
In the early 1990s, when privatisation was still heresy in Brazil, Mr Palocci, then mayor of Ribeirao Preto, a city in Sao Paulo's farmbelt, sold the municipal telephone company and called on private investors to build a water-treatment system.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which funds subsidized housing, is demanding that Galveston build 569 low-income units as part of mixed-income developments, not old-fashioned projects or risk losing more than half a billion dollars in storm-recovery funds the city needs to rebuild infrastructure, such as a water-treatment plant, roads and sidewalks.
Because the company is a leader in its field of water and waste-water treatment in China, it has enjoyed access to bank financing in the past, and has even been able to raise capital in the United States by selling its shares on NASDAQ.
Buenos Aires and its suburbs have only three waste-water treatment plants for 10m residents, and often suffer flash floods that drench entire avenues.
Nafa Kalaf Al Janabie, an Iraqi-American praised by Mr Powell, is the president of Detroit Contracting, a waste-water treatment company that recently opened an office in Baghdad, where it hopes to benefit from American and United Nations contracts.
His soldiers guard 150 facilities in the city -- including power stations, water treatment plants, schools and banks -- and have found more than 500 ammunition caches in schools and residential areas, he said.
But as Brazil grows--and in fact, as Latin America grows--fundamental features underlying all of the growth include good, clean water as well as sewage-treatment capability, which is also one of this company's other related activities.
Hydro Industries is a high-tech company specialising in the design, manufacture and operation of electro-based water treatment products.
It also scores points for being designed to earn Platinum LEED certification, with features like a rainwater-harvesting project and in-house water treatment plant to ensure 100 percent recycling of water.
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He and his top engineers meet several times a week with U.S. officials, including Crear, on how to repair existing equipment, like the 100, 000-gallon-a-minute water treatment plant near Gharmat Ali, essential to restoring water injection into the Rumallah oilfields.
Also, to comply with prevailing U.S. emissions standards on nitrogen oxides, or NOx, these big diesels require fairly complicated systems of postcombustion treatment with a water-based urea solution, called AdBlue.
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Imagine water pouring into a sink and a really tiny stopper trying to hold it all back--that's our treatment program--and there's nothing slowing the amount of water pouring into that sink.
McNulty added that he believes the water treatment industry is a compelling long-term investment.
Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the U.S. Mission in Bangladesh, anticipating the storm, pre-positioned 16 Zodiac boats, water treatment systems, water ambulances and food for a more rapid response.
The capital's main surgical hospitals and water treatment plants now rely solely on back-up generators because the normal power supply has been cut, an untenable situation, Doumani said.
For all patients, old-fashioned diuretics, or water pills, are the preferred first treatment.
He cites lack of water treatment, sewage and planning, and says the film-makers will likely leave the island in better condition than before they arrived.
That made it easier to purify the rainwater that in Singapore is fastidiously collected wherever it can be in streets and ponds, even on tall buildings and bridges before being taken by drains to reservoirs, and thence to treatment plants where it is cleaned to drinking-water standards.
At this point, private backing of city projects have been one-off numbers a highway, a recycling center, a water treatment plant, a fleet of parking meters, say.
In addition to creating the sill, officials are planning to take 2.5 million gallons of fresh water from farther north in the river -- past mile marker 100 -- then carry it by barge southward "and suck it into our water treatment facilities, " Laigast said.
Infrastructure investments could include bridge and highway construction and repair, new commuter and high-speed rail lines, upgrading communications systems, renovating or building new schools, community colleges and state-of-the art job training facilities, investing in dams, waterways and water treatment facilities, reclaiming key wetlands, and improving the basic livability of impoverished neighborhoods.
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