Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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150,000 m³/d Thames estuary BWRO plant opens in London
To maintain the supply-demand balance within London, a 150,000 m /d reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination facility has been constructed to treat brackish water abstracted from the estuary of the river Thames. The plant is located on the north shore of the river at Beckton, east London, and was opened on 2 June 2010. The plant was…
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Desalination promotion part of Colorado river agreement
Mexico and the USA agreed to promote cooperation on desalination technology through the construction of more competitive desalination plants as part of an agreement on the use of the Colorado river signed on 20 December 2010.
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Titanium supplier chosen for Ras Azzour desalination plant
Uniti LLC, a US-Russian industrial titanium venture jointly owned by Allegheny Technologies Inc and Verkhnaya Salda Metallurgical Production Association, announced on 16 December 2010 that it has been chosen to supply a significant portion of the commercially pure (CP) titanium to be used in the Ras Azzour desalination plant in Saudi Arabia.
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Pentair to acquire Brazilian water-filter maker
Pentair Inc announced on 17 December 2010 an agreement to acquire Hidro Filtros do Brasil, a leading manufacturer of water filters and filtering elements for residential and industrial applications operating in Brazil and neighboring countries.
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Norit to supply UF membranes for Singapore waterworks
Norit Asia Pacific is to supply of X-Flow XIGA™ ultrafiltration (UF) membranes to the Lower Seletar Waterworks project in Singapore to be constructed by Sembawang Engineers & Constructors.
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Adelaide desalination plant’s first water delayed 3 months
AdelaideAqua, the Acciona-led consortium building the Adelaide desalination plant, has told South Australia (SA) Water that, following a recent review of the construction program, first water will not now be supplied until July 2011.
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Aquatech wins Mongolian ZLD job
Aquatech has been awarded a contract for a 2,400 m³/d zero liquid discharge (ZLD) plant for a coal-to-chemicals facility in Hailer in Inner Mongolia.
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Methane to power Queensland CSG desalination plant
A desalination plant in southwest Queensland for the burgeoning coal-seam gas (CSG) industry is to be built by a consortium of GE and Laing O’Rourke for leading Australian gas explorer and producer QGC.
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Arizona panel makes water-reuse recommendations
More than 60 recommendations including many on wastewater reuse have been forwarded to the governor of the US state of Arizona by a “Blue Ribbon” panel formed by the governor, Jan Brewer, in 2009.
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Siemens to supply 88,000m³/d UF pretreatment for Scottsdale
Siemens Water Technologies announced on 14 December 2010 a US$ 7 million contract to supply 11 Memcor CP membrane filtration systems for the City of Scottsdale Water Campus Advanced Water Treatment (AWT) Facility expansion in Arizona, USA.