Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Desalination paper wins student NWRI/SCSC fellowship
A paper on the use of nanostructed polymers in desalination has won a California student a two- year US$ 10,000 fellowship from the National Water Research Institute (NWRI) and the Southern California Salinity Coalition (SCSC).
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Tianjin boosts desalination supply to beat shortage
Tianjin has become the first Chinese city to transport a large amount of desalinated seawater through its current water supply network after the city had to increase its desalinated supply to cope with an acute water shortage over the New Year holiday period.
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Gold Coast desalination plant replacing poor-quality floodwater
In an ironic reversal of its intended use for droughts, the Gold Coast desalination plant in Queensland, Australia, has been brought out of mothballs to provide water at full capacity to replace surface water full of sediment caused by large-scale flooding.
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French loan for two desalination evaporators in Kazakhstan
France is to loan Kazakhstan US$ 32 million to build two desalination plants to help supply water for the west of the country.
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Eyre Peninsula desalination site choice delayed
Identification of a site for the proposed Eyre Peninsula desalination plant in South Australia has been put back three months, according to an Australian press report.
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Al Ghubrah mobile desalination plant onstream in Oman
The 27,000 m³/d mobile desalination plant being built at Al Ghubrah, Oman, for the Public Authority for Electricity & Water (PAEW) has gone onstream, the Oman Observer reported on 26 December 2010.
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Magtaa desalination turbocharger delivery complete
Delivery of 25 TurboCharger energy recovery devices for the largest seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant in the world has been completed by Energy Recovery Inc (ERI).
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STS Apliclor to open new Madrid office
Barcelona-based Severn Trent Services – Apliclor, a leading supplier of water and wastewater solutions in Spain, has announced a range of strategic initiatives to expand the scope and geographic range of its business.
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Further funding for San Antonio BWRO desalination project
Initial project construction for the brackish groundwater desalination program planned by San Antonio Water System (SAWS) in the USA will now be possible following a US$ 24.6 million loan from the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB).
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Membrane-based reuse to be studied in Vietnam project
Development of membrane-based water-reuse technologies will be the focus of a pilot project started by the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT) in Vietnam, the Thailand-based Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the Institute National des Sciences Appliques (INSA) in France.