Florida Rural Water Association
2970 Wellington Circle
Tallahassee FL 32309
850.668.2746
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40th FRWA Annual Conference
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 August 5-7, 2019
Daytona Beach FL 32118
Reservations: 386.254.8200 or
It is hard to believe that this year the Florida Rural Water Association celebrates its 40th year! We've come a long way from the original incorporation to being 2,000 members strong!
We hope that you will join us as we celebrate forty years of advocating and servicing the water and wastewater utilities of Florida at the Fortieth Annual FRWA Annual Conference
With a sold out Exhibit Hall of over 100 booths and over fifty training topics to choose from, this Conference is well on it's way to exceeding all expectations! The Conference is packed full of training, door prizes, and plenty of food! There is something for everyone as well as an opportunity to a earn 1.5 CEUs by attending both the Pre-Conference and the Conference sessions.
For a complete agenda, click here.
Don't forget to bring your water sample to the Registration booth before 2:00 on Tuesday to participate in this year's Best Tasting Water Contest. The winner will be announced at the Exhibitor Social in the Exhibit Hall on Tuesday evening and will have the opportunity to represent Florida in the Great American Taste Test in Washington DC in February.
For more information click here.
These and other activities will keep you informed, inspired, and motivated so that we can help you to make sure the future of the water and wastewater industry in Florida is bright!
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This Week in Water History
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French Water Filter Patent Issued
July 23, 1800: French patent granted to James Smith, 'Citizen' Ciuchet and Denis Monfort for an elaborate filtration device consisting of layers of wool, 2 inches crushed sandstone, 12 inches coarse powdered charcoal pressed into a solid with river sand, and 12 inches of sand or crushed sandstone.
"In 1800, the basic Smith-Cuchet-Montfort patent was granted by France and, in 1806, the Quai des Celestins filters, which operated for a half century or more, were established in Paris. James Smith, a gunsmith from Glasgow, for a short time helped Richard Younger of Edinburgh, formerly a brewer, to assemble filters, the manufacture of which Younger began in or about 1795. These filters, wrote John Wilson, in 1802, were the most remarkable of the devices proposed up to that time to purify water by the use of charcoal, in accordance with the proposals of Lowitz (see Chap. 111) and others.
Smith, having brought the Lowitz process to the attention of the French Minister of Marine "as an important secret," says Rochon, was sent to Brest. Numberless experiments were made there in the presence of twelve representatives of different branches of the Marine Department. An official report on the experiments was made in 1798. Smith went to Paris and, with others, took out a filter patent."
For more articles on what went on this week in water history, click here.
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