ISEC has been organising space elevator conferences for the past ten years will be held in Seattle later this month. They are attended by scientists, engineers and students from around the world, including those from various national space agencies like Nasa. There are also annual conferences in Europe and Japan and technical papers on various aspects of space elevators are published every year.

Very recently, the Ministry of Rural Development and the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation appointed Vidya as the brand ambassador of sanitation. ().

The market was flat for most of the session but fell sharply after Reid's comments, a signal that investors remain skittish about the wrangling in Washington. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, rose on Reid's words.

McGinnis also suggests that future water desalination plants using Oasys Water technology could be placed near power plants, where they could benefit from wasted heat. Currently, desalination plants do sit near power plants, but they usually need extra energy to force water through the dense reverse-osmosis membranes. Additionally, there won't be any need for expensive equipment such as high-pressure pipes, making the produced water even cheaper.

The EBRD was facing calls to be closed down, merged with the European Investment Bank or to pay its shareholders a dividend from the profits made from its largely private sector investments.