Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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ERI chief looking to a bigger future
Energy Recovery Inc (ERI), manufacturers of energy-recovery equipment for desalination plants, announced the appointment of Tom Rooney to succeed GG Pique as CEO back in February 2011. D&WR caught up with Rooney at the International Desalination Association’s World Congress in Perth and asked him how he saw the company’s present situation and its future. This…
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Online registration open for EDS solar desalination course
Online registration is now available for the European Desalination Society’s course on Desalination with Solar Energy in Almeria, Spain, on 18-20 April 2012, which can be combined with the EDS conference in Barcelona on 23-26 April.
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German water-polishing licence granted to Aquatech
Aquatech International Corporation of the USA has finalized a cooperation agreement with WasserBauGesellschaft Kulmbach GmbH (WBG), a leading water technology company based in Germany, to hold the exclusive North American license for WBG’s RSR Plus® Condensate Polishing Technology.
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Land set aside for Gaza desalination project
The Palestinian Water Authority has been instructed by the government to allocate 30,000 m² of land in Gaza for a desalination facility with a capacity of 100 million m³/year.
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Adelaide desalination consortium fined by SA Water
SA Water has imposed financial penalties on the builder of the 100,000 m³/d Adelaide seawater desalination in South Australia for failing to deliver water on time.
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Osmoflo commissions 4,000 m³/d SWRO desalination plant
A 4,000 m³/d seawater reverse-osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant has been commissioned in Whyalla, South Australia, for steel manufacturer OneSteel.
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Djibouti ‘planning desalination plant with EU aid’
The government of Djibouti in east Africa is planning to build a 45,000 m³/d desalination plant with European Union (EU) finance, according to a report in Gulf News on 4 December 2011.
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Acciona Agua in bidding for Sydney desalination lease
Acciona Agua of Spain is part of one of at least three consortia bidding for leases on the Sydney seawater desalination plant in Australia.
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Saudi-Japanese agreement on solar-thermal desalination research
A research cooperation agreement was signed on 30 November 2011 in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, between the Desalination Research Institute, part of the Saline Water Conversion Corporation, and Hitachi Zozen of Japan.
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Exhibitor/sponsor registration open for CaribDA conference
The Caribbean Desalination Association (CaribDA) has announced the opening of registration for exhibitors and sponsors for its 2012 Conference and Exposition 80 Years of Desalination Makes for One Happy Island.