Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Changes to IDA affiliations in China
The International Desalination Association has made changes concerning its relationship with desalination associations in China.
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Massive health grant aids Chino desalters expansion
California’s Western Municipal Water District announced on 28 June 2012 that it had received a “monumental” US$ 51 million grant from the state’s Department of Health towards the US$ 130 million expansion of the Chino desalination plants.
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Desalination featured on redesigned SAWS website
San Antonio Water System (SAWS) has featured its brackish-water reverse-osmosis desalination project as one of the headlines on its newly redesigned website.
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Registration opened for AMTA/SEDA costs workshop
Information and registration for the workshop on Reducing Costs at Membrane Plants to be held jointly in Florida by the American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) and the Southeast Desalting Association are now available on the AMTA website.
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Kuwait discusses seawater desalination with Algeria
Algiers was the setting on 12 July 2012 for the first meeting of the Kuwait-Algerian committee for seawater desalination, which aims to establish cooperation between the two nations on the technology.
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Florida RO chemical pretreatment workshop for SEDA
A technology-transfer workshop on Chemical Pretreatment for Reverse Osmosis Technology is to be held in Dunedin, Florida, by the Southeast Desalting Association (SEDA).
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New Zealand city commissions MBR wastewater upgrade
The city of Rotorua on New Zealand’s North Island has become the first city in the country to use a membrane bioreactor (MBR) for wastewater treatment on a major scale.
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“First water” video for Victorian desalination plant
The Aquasure consortium building the much delayed Victorian desalination plant for Melbourne, Australia, has released a video to celebrate the production of first water on 30 June 2012.
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Powerplant costs raise Singapore desalination bill
Singapore’s water supply agency, PUB, has approved an increase in the cost of the 318,000 m³/d Tuaspring desalination project asked for by contractor Hyflux Ltd.
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Arizona RO plant gets solar energy boost
The Arizona town of Gila Bend is to build a 460 kW photovoltaic solar‑energy system to power its 1 MGD (3,785 m³/d) reverse‑osmosis (RO) water treatment system.