Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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New distributors and EU compliance for PWT
Membrane chemicals supplier Professional Water Technologies (PWT), the US arm of Canada’s H2O Innovation, recently signed agreements with two new distributors in Brazil and Argentina, increasing its presence in South America.
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IDA appoints Awerbuch as Academy dean
The International Desalination Association (IDA) on 28 May 2012 named Leon Awerbuch the interim dean of the IDA Desalination Academy, which will offer its first courses in conjunction with the 2012 Singapore International Water Week (1-5 July 2012).
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WRA seeking proposals for potable reuse web tool
The WateReuse Association has issued a request for proposals to develop an online web tool to make documents related to potable reuse studies more accessible to potential project sponsors.
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Monterey authority seeking desalination choice help
California’s Monterey Peninsula Regional Water Authority (RWA) has been recommended to hire a consultant to held the authority choose which of three alternative desalination plans it should be backing.
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VWS buys inge UF modules for oil rig
VWS Westgarth has awarded a contract to BASF subsidiary inge GmbH for 600 dizzer® ultrafiltration (UF) modules for an oil rig.
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NF desalinated water ‘improves marginal agriculture’
Agricultural experiments conducted at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel consistently show that irrigation with desalinated water promotes a higher productivity of resources such as water and inorganic fertilizers per unit of marketable yield compared with current practices.
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Final draft of San Diego water-reuse scheme published
The City of San Diego, California, has published the final draft of its Recycled Water Study – the culmination of a two-year process to develop a new vision for water reuse in the San Diego region.
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Cyprus desalination failure ‘setback for European aid’
Failure to implement the seawater desalination plant at Sirianokhori/Kumköy in the Turkish part of Cyprus represents a significant setback for the overall European Community assistance programme to this region, according to the European Court of Auditors (ECA).
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Azerbaijan desalination plant
Azerbaijan will activate a 20,000 m³/d desalination plant on the Caspian Sea in four months time, according to a report by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua.
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Low-cost desalination development gets EPA funding
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded more than US$ 79,000 from its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to Okeanos Technologies LLC of Covington, Kentucky, to develop a low-cost desalination system.