Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Chinese industrial wastewater job won by United Envirotech
Singapore-based United Envirotech Ltd, a membrane-based water and wastewater treatment company, announced on 8 February 2011 that it had signed a transfer-operate-transfer agreement with the management committee of the Nanpu Economic Development Zone in China to provide a 80,000 m³/d wastewater treatment plant and a 40,000 m³/d wastewater recycling plant.
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Doosan to build world’s largest MED desalination unit
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has signed an agreement with the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) in Saudi Arabia to co-build what will be the world’s largest single multi-effect distillation (MED) desalination unit.
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Industry Interview:
How IDE uses innovation to stay ahead of the fieldThe recent EuroMed conference in Tel Aviv organized by the European Desalination Society provided an ideal chance for the industry to meet the key players in the burgeoning Israeli desalination industry on their home ground. D&WR editor Robin Wiseman spoke to Avshalom Felber, CEO of IDE Technologies about technology and how his company kept at…
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Desalination plants part of Palestine agreement
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement on 4 February 2011 agreeing to improvements in water, sewerage and electricity in Palestinian areas, following a meeting with Tony Blair, representative of the “Quartet” (USA, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union).
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Seprotech appoints new CEO and president
Ottawa-based Seprotech Systems Inc, developer of CrystalBlue™ membrane-based water recycling systems, announced a new chairman and CEO on 27 January 2011,
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USEPA chief briefs Senate on dangerous contaminants
Perchlorate, chromium-6 and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in drinking water were all discussed by the US Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator, Lisa P Jackson, in testimony before the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works on 2 February 2011.
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Mobile BWRO system aids Greek power-station completion
Completion of a power-station water treatment project based on mobile brackish-water reverse-osmosis (BWRO) desalination systems was announced in on 3 February by Swiss-based Ecolutia Services, part of the Stulz/Hager & Elsässer group.
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Visalia wastewater upgrade will be largest MBR in California
The City of Visalia, USA, is upgrading its wastewater treatment plant with membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology and will be the largest MBR plant in California when it enters service in 2013.
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Webcast to feature water-reuse ‘call to action’
A call to action for all water industry leaders about water reuse will be the subject of a webcast to be presented by the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the WateReuse Association on 23 February 23 2011.
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GE expands HERO licensing agreement
GE Power & Water announced on 1 February 2011 that it has completed a new expanded licensing agreement to allow it to continue offering High Efficiency Reverse Osmosis (HERO™) systems to help more of its industrial customers increase their water usage efficiency and reuse capacity.