Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Cape Town ponders giant desalination project as resources dwindle
Cape Town, South Africa is nearing completion of its feasibility study for a 450 Ml/d desalination plant that could be built near Koeberg on South Africa’s west coast within the next 10 years at a cost of some R14.9 billion (US$ 1.23 billion).
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Containerized plant resolves district’s drought difficulties
Membrane filtration company, H2O Innovation, has delivered a 3,200 m³/d containerized water treatment system to the Cambria Community Service District, California to “resolve promptly” the community’s difficulties amid its tenth year of drought. The system treats a mix of brackish water, freshwater and secondary effluent to be injected into a groundwater basin.
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AMTA NEWS Novel sub-nanofiltration ceramic membrane production uses DNA
A novel method for creating ceramic reverse osmosis membranes with sub-nanometre pores by using the genetic material, DNA, as a template former, overcomes the poor reproducibility encountered in conventional methods according to the developer of the technology, Cerahelix.
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SWCC to invite tenders for new desalination capacity
Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) is poised to invite tenders for its planned increase in water production in the kingdom to meet is soaring demand for potable water according to a recent report in MEED.
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Israel and Jordan seal water-swap deal
Israel and Jordan have signed a bilateral agreement to exchange water and pipe Red Sea desalination brines to the shrinking Dead Sea.
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First stage of Gaza desalination project completed
The European Union and UNICEF have marked the completion of the first component of their joint project with Palestine’s water utilities to construct a Euro 10 million (US$ 11.2 million) desalination plant which will provide over 75,000 Palestinians with drinking water in Gaza.
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Oman assigns special tag to two desalination projects
Oman has assigned “special project” status to two under-construction water desalination schemes on its Batinah coast to get around legal obstacles.
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Acciona forecasts Chilean desalination surge on back of revitalized copper mining
Spanish clean energy and water company, Acciona, has forecast a surge in demand for desalination plants in Chile as the country’s copper mining industry expands.
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3M wraps up Polypore filtration business for U$ 1 billion
Multinational conglomerate, 3M, has signed an agreement to buy the separations media business of membrane specialist Polypore International for US$ 1billion cash.
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Microbubble membrane cleaning stems fouling
In spring 2014 we published an article on how Genesys developed its microbubble-based membrane cleaning system. In this follow up Genesys presents results from a case study of the technology in a wastewater reverse osmosis plant. This article first appeared in the February 2015 issue of Desalination & Water Reuse magazine.