Researchers from the Department of Environmental Science & Engineering at South Korea's Gwangju
Institute of Science & Technology (GIST) sent several human-powered nanofiltration (NF) water-
treatment systems to the earthquake victims of Haiti in January.
The directors of the Santa Clara Valley Water District in California, USA, approved two agreements
with the City of San Jose on 23 February 2010 to build a new advanced water treatment facility
involving microfiltration, reverse osmosis and ultraviolet disinfection.
Singapore's largest membrane bioreactor (MBR) plant is to be built by Hyflux Ltd under a Sing$ 35.8
million (US$ 25.4 million) contract announced on 23 February 2010.
Design of a hybrid reverse-osmosis (RO) system is included in the latest version of Woongjin
Chemical Co's latest version of its CSMPro desalination system design software.
Desalination membrane manufacturer Nitto Denko/Hydranautics announced new appointments to its Sales division on 8 February 2010. Brian Smeeton becomes general sales manager and Gil Turner account executive in the Gulf Region.
Reports deriving from the Southern California Regional Brine-Concentrate Management Study -
Phase 1 have been made available on the website of the US Bureau of Reclamation (USBR).
D&WR readers involved in environmental studies for seawater desalination plants may be
interested in a series of briefings just published via the European Union's Science for Environmental P...
