Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Aqualia wins SWRO contract in Chile
Spanish company Aqualia has been awarded a contract worth about € 17 million to design and supply seawater reverse-osmosis equipment for a desalination plant in Chile, its first work in that country.
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US reclamation bureau seeks water reuse proposals
Funding for development of feasibility studies for water reclamation and reuse projects within the 17 western US states and Hawaii has been made available by the US Bureau of Reclamation.
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Japanese desalination forum program announced
The program has been announced for the Japan Desalination Association (JDA) 2011 Forum in Tokyo on 16 February 2011.
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Carlsbad desalination plant survives another appeal
California’s Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, on 10 December 2010 upheld the Superior Court’s ruling that the State Lands Commission had complied with environmental laws when it approved the Carlsbad Desalination Project.
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Scottish company wins order for North Sea RO units
Aberdeen-based Monitor Systems Scotland has won a contract to supply six 50 m³/d reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination units for three North Sea offshore platforms operated by TAQA Bratani, owned by Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PSJC.
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STW Resources gets Aquatech mobile units for oil/gas treatment
US water reclamation services company STW Resources Holding Corp has signed an agreement with Aquatech International to purchase and/or lease a fleet of mobile units for the treatment and reclamation of hydraulic fracture flow-back and produced waters from oil and gas production.
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Israeli water venture-capital firm signs up with GE
A strategic collaboration to help commercialize innovative water technologies was agreed on 1 December 2010 by Kinrot Ventures, an Israeli venture capital company specializing in forming and growing water companies, and multisectoral giant GE.
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Ceramic nanofiltration company gets big investor
ItN Nanovation AG, a start-up company in Saarbrucken, Germany, making nanofiltration ceramic products for the water industry, announced on 9 December 2010 a framework investment agreement with the US investment fund YA Global Master SPV Ltd, part of the Yorkville Group.
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Sumitomo allies with VA Tech Wabag
Japan’s Sumitomo Corp announced on 7 December 2010 an alliance agreement with India-based VA Tech Wabag Ltd, under which the two companies will strategically cooperate in multiple areas within the water infrastructure industry
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Norit UF membranes for Swedish water treatment
A surface-water treatment plant that will be used to supply Göteborg, Sweden’s second largest city, is to use ultrafiltration (UF) technology supplied by Norit X-Flow of the Netherlands.