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LONDON, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Waterhound Futures Limited, a leader in water and wastewater data analytics, announced today that Sheetal Mehta Walsh will join Waterhound Futures as a Board Advisor.

Waterhound Futures provides deep tech software solutions to industry and municipal water and wastewater treatment customers, while Sheetal will advise on multi-source funding strategies and build commercial collaborations to scale the company in North America and EMEA.  

Sheetal brings over 25 years of experience working with start-ups and as an impact investor. Sheetal worked directly with Bill Gates to create and implement Microsoft’s first corporate VC relations strategy, which she managed first from Silicon Valley and later managed the EMEA from London.  She also brings 14 years of experience as Deal Maker for the British Government’s Global Entrepreneur Programme where she facilitated fundraising of £1 billion for over 900 companies.

«We are honoured to announce that Sheetal has joined Waterhound’s Advisory Board. Sheetal was our original Deal Maker at the UK Department for International Trade Global Entrepreneur Programme. The energy she brought to our work with the GEP and as our champion and connector inside the DIT, as well as with prospective clients was amazing.  After she left the GEP, we asked if she would consider joining Waterhound as a Board Advisor.  She enthusiastically agreed and we couldn’t be more excited to continue to benefit from her experience as an entrepreneur and founder in her own right,» said Julie King, CEO for Waterhound Futures Limited. «The blend of Sheetal’s experience in investment banking, impact investing, microfinance, as well as the 14-years she worked with start-ups as a Deal Maker at the GEP is invaluable. We are very pleased to have Sheetal as a key member of our team.»

Ms. Walsh declared, «From the moment I met Julie in 2019, I was impressed and excited by her resilience as a global entrepreneur and her passion for digital water. Waterhound Futures Ltd is an important and timely innovation not just for the UK but also for the world. As one of the most abundant and valuable resources on the planet, we humans would perish without it. Aside from basic survival water is used in many industries which affect our everyday lives from oil and gas to mining to food and beverage, just to name a few.  How we treat and maintain water needs to be at the forefront of our innovation strategies.»

About Waterhound Futures Limited

Waterhound Futures Limited (www.waterhoundfutures.com) proprietary software applies machine learning and AI in an integrated environment to water and wastewater treatment, water reuse and recycle and energy recovery and management. Engineers, operators and managers are able to optimise performance and reduce operating and lifetime costs for water and wastewater treatment assets. Founded in 2019 by Julie King and Michael Levey with the simple vision of eliminating contamination of freshwater resources by untreated wastewater.  The company won The Water Council’s AI Tech Challenge, joined the UK Department of International Trade Global Entrepreneur Programme and won a CalSEED grant award from the California Energy Commission for the application of machine learning to energy efficiency in wastewater treatment in 2020.

About Sheetal Mehta Walsh

Sheetal is co-founder of SoHo Ventures. She is also President of Shanti Life, a UK charity focussed on providing safe sanitation for vulnerable women in India through a recycling microfinance fund.

Sheetal joins Stuart Orr, Head of WWF International’s Freshwater Practice and Jacob Tompkins OBE, CTO of The Water Retail Company, London as Board Advisors for Waterhound Futures.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — 2020 was a challenging year to which several local government agencies rose to the occasion to ensure their citizens were being served. Counties are working tirelessly to improve resident – government interactions across every channel and Cities are serving residents while empowering employees to excel at their jobs. Both are enabling cross-agency collaboration and empowering a remote workforce to provide faster, easier, smarter government services.

Suffolk County New York, City of Virginia Beach Virginia, and City of Dallas Texas were among the list of local governments who drove and continue to drive their digital initiatives forward. Suffolk County NY launched their 311 call center taking a phased approach, enabling their platform to also be utilized when the County was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Suffolk 311 system became the way the County managed their response with citizens and businesses. The County also launched their citizen facing self service web portal as another channel for citizens and businesses for COVID-19 response. Suffolk is re-opening and expanding departments using 311 to include Human Services.

Suffolk has 63 active Service Request types configured in the 311 Capsule including service request types for Covid-19. The county is required to provide shared services for other jurisdictions within the County. Users can be alerted to which jurisdiction owns that specific issue at that location. The multi-jurisdictional functionality allows for more flexibility and configurability of the distribution of tickets could be adjusted as things evolve. Multi-jurisdictional functionality also provides the ability to track constituent issues to meet needs and security options to limit views of information as required by the county.

Dallas, Texas ranked in the top 10 most populous cities in the United States, needed to rapidly implement enterprise level, scalable, Low Code/No Code platform-based solutions to provide uncompromised customer service to the Public and a safe environment for their employees. The City of Dallas successfully launched three critical applications to aid with tackling and providing the technology support needed for city employees to serve their constituents during COVID-19. Success for The City of Dallas means, city wide proactive reporting, public appointment scheduling with city departments online, and increasingly digitized forms and applications.  City of Dallas departments currently leveraging these solutions include 311, Community Care, and Code Compliance. These apps play a crucial role in supporting the city as they continue to serve their constituents during these challenging times.

Virginia Beach, one of the nation’s top award winning digital cities, placed third in the Annual Digital Government survey in 2020. When the City sought an off-the-shelf, configurable software-as-a-service system to aid in COVID-19 relief, they turned to the recently purchased 311 Capsule CRM solution and repurposed that traditional 311 solution project to meet their urgent pandemic response needs. Launched on time and on budget by Incapsulate, the City has remotely deployed this project in multiple phases, prioritizing COVID-19 response. The first phase focused on short-term rentals and COVID-19 donations and disaster relief. Virginia Beach equipped their Emergency Communications and Citizen Services operations with the ability to review and accept community-based donations of personal protective equipment (PPE) and supplies.

In the second phase, the City implemented COVID-19 a suite of Financial Relief Applications (Public Utilities Payment Assistance) and the Board of Commissioner Online Appointment Scheduler. Virginia Beach is leveraging the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for two COVID-19 relief fund programs: City Services Bill Pandemic Relief, VA State CARES relief and Emergency Debt Repayment Plan. Citizens who lost their jobs or income due to COVID-19 may use the online portal to submit and track their applications for assistance. Departments are empowered to collaborate on application review, validation and approval. The reporting process is streamlined by collecting and processing applicant progress reports digitally. Virginia Beach also implemented Incapsulate’s Remote Appointment Scheduling Application, which helps digitize the delivery of mission-critical services provided by the City’s Commissioner of the Revenue.

The latest phase includes the City’s COVID-19 Vaccine Management System. The City of Virginia Beach stands ready to support the Virginia Department of Health’s vaccination program, as the system integrates with the State of Virginia’s Vaccine systems. Residents are able to pre-register online and input their information to generate a request for the vaccine that is then sent to the state health department. Online notifications are then sent to residents to schedule an appointment. The city also provides relevant information on the availability of the vaccine, who is eligible and where they can go to get vaccinated.

In 2021 local government agencies continue to rise to the occasion to ensure their citizens are being served. As we have seen with Suffolk, Dallas and Virginia Beach; cities and counties are working tirelessly to improve resident – government interactions across every channel. They continue to enable cross-agency collaboration and empower a remote workforce to provide faster, easier, smarter government services.

About Incapsulate
Since 2008, Incapsulate has helped organizations realize true digital transformation and achieve lasting results with the Salesforce Platform. With expertise in a wide range of cloud-based technologies, agile methodologies, digital analytics, and mobile solutions, we serve clients ranging from the Fortune 500 companies to Federal, State & Local governments across the United States.  As of January 1st, 2021, Incapsulate has over 200 employees, with over 450 Salesforce Technical Certifications, and an additional 50 technical certifications in other cloud platforms.  Incapsulate is a Certified Partner of  Mulesoft, Vlocity, Tableau, Clariti, Box, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services and ESRI.  Headquartered in Washington DC, Incapsulate has additional offices in Boston, Toronto, Ahmedabad, and Hyderabad.

For more information please contact Incapsulate at
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BOSTON, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The global market size for CO₂ utilization will reach a market value of $70 billion by 2030, increasing to $550 billion by 2040. In its newest report, «CO₂ Capture & Utilization: The Emergence of a Carbon Economy,» Lux Research, a global provider of tech-enabled research and advisory services, forecasts the adoption of CO₂ utilization in the buildings, chemicals, materials, fuels, and food sectors.

Despite unprecedented action against climate change over the past decade, global emissions witnessed steady growth and only fell in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. All projections have emissions returning to their upward trajectory unless drastic measures are taken across the entire energy system. While CO₂ is a significant contributor to climate change, interest in a potential carbon economy is growing from governments, industry, and the investment community. Carbon capture and utilization remains a crucial technology to not only remove but even recycle CO₂ from the atmosphere.

CO₂ can convert into six types of products: building materials, chemicals, carbon additives, fuels, polymers, and proteins. «The projected growth will be driven by the building materials sector. For example, CO₂ can be used to produce aggregates to mix with cement or injected directly into wet concrete for curing,» explains Runeel Daliah, Analyst at Lux Research and the lead author of the report. «Building materials will become the largest sector for CO₂ utilization, capturing 86% of the total market value by 2040. Technologies for CO₂ utilization in the building industry have low technical barriers – adoption will only be impeded by regulatory constraints.»

«Fuels, chemicals, and carbon additives provide vast potential for CO₂ utilization, but it will not be reached without extensive innovation or regulatory support for widespread adoption,» adds Daliah. «The polymers and protein sectors will remain niche applications of CO₂ utilization despite the expected success of the technology in these sectors. Successful deployment for polymers remains small, while CO₂ utilization for proteins is still in the development stage, with adoption driven by the rising demand for alternative proteins.»

Lux’s new report shows the vast promise CO₂ capture and utilization holds for recycling CO₂ emissions into valuable products. For more information on this research, download the report Executive Summary.

Media Contact:
Jessica Bonner
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — In response to the threat of mis- and disinformation on democracy and public health, Voto Latino, the largest Latinx voter registration organization in the U.S., and Media Matters for America, the nation’s premier media watchdog organization, are announcing the launch of the Latino Anti-Disinformation Lab. The collaborative effort will work to better understand and strategically combat misinformation at all stages and on all mediums, seeking primarily to influence Latinx individuals.

The Latino Anti-Disinformation Lab will be chaired by Voto Latino co-founding President and CEO María Teresa Kumar, Media Matters for America President and CEO Angelo Carusone and former Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez. It will, for the first time, establish the systems and network necessary to help combat mis- and disinformation that further polarizes and isolates Latinx voters.

The need for this initiative is clear. In the months leading up to the 2020 general election, voters were subject to higher levels of mis- and disinformation than ever before. Spanish and English language voter fraud misinformation, fear mongering tactics, and disinformation about COVID-19 spread throughout the media and on mainstream social platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp, YouTube, and other online communities. This included a significant increase in false information targeting communities of color, disproportionately impacting Spanish-speaking audiences over the age of 40.

«For decades, disinformation has been a weapon that corrupt governments in failing states use against their own people,» said Voto Latino’s Maria Teresa Kumar. «But now that same weapon is aimed at the most vulnerable in the United States, exploiting some officials’ moral weakness and social media’s deliberate lawlessness to sow greater distrust of our critical institutions than ever before. The spread of lies around the COVID vaccine is proof positive that disinformation has become a life and death issue if not curbed and addressed.»

The Latino Anti-Disinformation Lab is the largest investment in combatting disinformation in Latinx communities to date. It will combine Media Matters’ media intelligence and disinformation expertise with Voto Latino’s deep knowledge of Latinx communities and digital-first savviness to inoculate impacted audiences across all mediums against targeted misinformation. As part of this effort, Media Matters will expand its monitoring of Spanish-language media and online communities, which a dedicated team will analyze to produce research that will catalyze strategic communications actions for Voto Latino. Voto Latino will invest heavily in data and infrastructure needed to effectively identify and communicate with at-risk Latinx voters.

«Whether its public health, political campaigns or policy  debates – the way the media approaches the issue will greatly influence the outcome,» said Media Matters President Angelo Carusone. «The right-wing sphere has spent years building a misinformation machine to target the Latinx community, which has resulted in a rising tide of disinformation. Despite how overwhelming it may seem, it is both possible and absolutely necessary to confront misinformation head on. This partnership will provide an essential check on that rising tide of disinformation.»

In addition to Media Matters and Voto Latino, former DNC Chairman Tom Perez, the son of first-generation immigrants from the Dominican Republic, will lend his voice and support to the effort to combat misleading information targeting the Latinx community.

«Misinformation targeting the Latino community is a very real and growing threat. We’ve got to address this threat head on with a substantial, focused, and concerted effort. That’s why I am so excited to be a part of this Voto Latino/Media Matters partnership. It leverages Media Matters’ unique capacities and expertise at media monitoring and research with Voto Latino’s extraordinary organizing and strategic communications capabilities,» added Tom Perez. This is the kind of lasting investment in communications infrastructure within the Latino community that is necessary to respond to the threat of misinformation as well as harness durable political and civic power.»

Voto Latino is a grassroots political organization focused on educating and empowering a new generation of Latinx voters, as well as creating a more robust and inclusive democracy. Through innovative digital campaigns, culturally relevant programs and authentic voices, we shepherd the Latinx community towards the full realization of its political power.

Media Matters for America is a nonprofit media watchdog dedicated to monitoring and exposing conservative misinformation. Through real-time monitoring, comprehensive research and analysis, and rapid response work, Media Matters combats lies, propaganda, and extremism to ensure that all Americans have access to truthful information.

CONTACT:
Danny Friedman, dfriedman@votolatino.org
Laura Keiter, LKeiter@mediamatters.org

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CORK, Ireland, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer George Oliver, and Vice President and Chief Sustainability, Government and Regulatory Affairs Officer Katie McGinty will speak at Baird’s 2021 Sustainability Conference held virtually on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021 at 1:50 p.m. EST.  A live webcast of each presentation will be available on the company’s website at: http://investors.johnsoncontrols.com/news-and-events/events-and-presentations.

About Johnson Controls:

At Johnson Controls, we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. From optimizing building performance to improving safety and enhancing comfort, we drive the outcomes that matter most. We deliver our promise in industries such as healthcare, education, data centers and manufacturing. With a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries and over 130 years of innovation, we are the power behind our customers’ mission. Our leading portfolio of building technology and solutions includes some of the most trusted names in the industry, such as Tyco^®, York^®, Metasys^®, Ruskin^®, Titus^®, Frick^®, Penn^®, Sabroe^®, Simplex^®, Ansul^® and Grinnell^®. For more information, visit www.johnsoncontrols.com or follow us @johnsoncontrols on Twitter.

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OAK BROOK, Ill., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Federal Signal Corporation (NYSE: FSS) («the Company»), a leader in environmental and safety solutions, today announced the completion of the acquisition of OSW Equipment and Repair, LLC («OSW») for cash consideration of $52.5 million.

OSW is a leading manufacturer of dump truck bodies and custom upfitter of truck equipment and trailers, and is headquartered in Snohomish, Washington, with an upfitting location in Tempe, Arizona. The acquisition also includes the operations of Northend Truck Equipment («NTE»), which are co-located with OSW, and Western Truck Body («WTB»), based in Edmonton, Canada. Both NTE and WTB are wholly owned subsidiaries of OSW.

«Since acquiring TBEI, the geographic expansion of our existing platform of market-leading dump bodies and trailers has been a strategic objective,» said Jennifer L. Sherman, President and Chief Executive Officer. «The acquisition of OSW represents a highly strategic transaction, adding three premier brands that serve attractive infrastructure, construction and other industrial end-markets on the West Coast, in Arizona and in parts of Canada.»

«I have been a long-time admirer of OSW and the strength of its brands», said Robert E. Fines, Vice President and General Manager, Truck Bodies and Equipment International. «The acquisition provides considerable opportunity for long-term value creation through operational improvement initiatives, organic growth and additional acquisitions.»

About Federal Signal
Federal Signal Corporation (NYSE: FSS) builds and delivers equipment of unmatched quality that moves material, cleans infrastructure, and protects the communities where we work and live. Founded in 1901, Federal Signal is a leading global designer, manufacturer and supplier of products and total solutions that serve municipal, governmental, industrial and commercial customers. Headquartered in Oak Brook, Ill., with manufacturing facilities worldwide, the Company operates two groups: Environmental Solutions and Safety and Security Systems. For more information on Federal Signal, visit: www.federalsignal.com.

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