Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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SWRO corrosion pre-conference workshop for CaribDA
A workshop on Understanding and Preventing Corrosion in Caribbean SWRO Plants will take place in Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, on 19 May 2012, prior to the 2012 Conference of the Caribbean Desalination Association (CaribDA).
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Australian workshop on desalination intakes and discharges
An international workshop on intakes and discharges for seawater desalination is to be held by the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia is in Adelaide on 16-17 May 2012.
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American Water gets WRRF reuse management investigation
WateReuse Research Foundation has awarded a US$ 377,578 research contract to American Water to develop best management practices to control potential health risks and other issues associated with storage and distribution of reclaimed water.
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Guinea desalination project changes hands
Nevada-based Dhanoa Minerals Ltd is to acquire a 75% majority interest in a 5 MGD (19,000 m³/d) seawater desalination project in the Republic of Guinea in West Africa.
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SDCWA confirms Carlsbad agreement ‘by spring’
San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) in California confirmed on 26 January 2012 that a water purchase agreement for the Carlsbad seawater desalination plant would be available for comment ‘by this spring’.
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Judge tells Cal Am to produce Monterey plan
California America Water (Cal Am) has until the start of March to come up with a new plan for providing water to the Monterey peninsula, according to a ruling by an administrative court on 25 January 2012.
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Control contract as GWRS expansion breaks ground
KDC Systems has been awarded a contract to install and/or integrate process control systems for the expansion of the membrane-based Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS) for Orange County Water District, which broke ground on 17 January 2012.
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Santa Cruz desalination EIR scheduled for April
Santa Cruz City Council in California, USA, approved a fifth contract on 24 January 2012 with consultant Kennedy/Jenks for work on its proposed seawater desalination plant.
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Patents indicate ‘significant advances’ in desalination, says report
Significant advances are being made in decreasing the cost of desalination and increasing its energy efficiency, says a report on the patent landscape of desalination technologies just published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
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Veolia installing evaporator in Alberta oil sands
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies is currently installing an evaporator/crystallizer system at Southern Pacific Resource Corp’s STP-McKay project currently under way in northern Alberta, Canada.