Author: Water. Desalination + reuse

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Environmentalist Philippe Cousteau will be the keynote speaker at the Gala Dinner for the 2011 International Desalination Association (IDA) World Congress on Desalination & Water Reuse, in Perth, Australia, on 4-9 September.

Liberatore becomes GE’s main membrane man

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Frederick Liberatore, who has been leading GE’s process membrane business for the past two years, has been given an expanded role as commercial domain leader for spiral-wound and flat-sheet membranes – water and process technologies.

Consolidated bidding for Mexican SWRO desalination

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Consolidated Water Co (CWCO) has declared itself to be one of the tenderers for the El Salitral desalination plant in Baja California, Mexico. Bids are due by June.

Fossil seawater causing desalination problem

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Increasing salinity in a groundwater source for desalination in North Carolina has been traced to fossil seawater, not recent seawater intrusion, as had been feared.

Tri-Tech planning forward-osmosis pilot plants

May 14, 2011

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Chinese water and wastewater treatment company Tri-Tech Holdings announced on 13 May 2011 that its current plans include constructing and operating one or more forward-osmosis (FO) pilot units using technology licensed from Arizona-based Hydration Technology Innovations (HTI).

Nuclear filter developed for portable water treatment

May 11, 2011

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A radiological filter for portable water treatment which removes 100% of major nuclear contaminants in drinking water has been developed by California-based Seychelle Water Filtration Products.

Acciona to build RO plant for Chile mines

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Spain’s Acciona Agua has been selected by Grupo CAP to design, build, bring into service and operate for 20 years a seawater desalination plant to service mining operations in the Copiapó Valley in Chile’s Atacama Region III.

ERI pumps and ERDs selected for Bahamas desalination expansion

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High-pressure pumps and energy-recovery technology are to be provided for the 18,500 m³/d expansion to the Blue Hills seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant in the Bahamas by Energy Recovery Inc (ERI).

ONEIC to manufacture its own RO desalination plants

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Oman National Engineering & Investment Company (ONEIC) is planning to manufacture reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination plants in Oman as the demand for water in the country is expected to grow by about 8% each year until 2017.

Fujairah F2 desalination plant inaugurated

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