Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Commission warns Australia about gas-production wastewater
Handling the wastewater resulting from coal-seam gas (CSG) production in Australia is likely to require a precautionary approach that will demand innovation from water managers and planners, and significantly greater coordination with existing project approval processes, the National Water Commission warned in December 2010.
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Minister launches IDA environmental symposium in Bahrain
The desalination industry must better understand its role in changes currently occurring in the Arabian Gulf, Bahrain’s minister of electricity and water affairs, Eng Fahmi bin Ali Al Jowder, told an environmental symposium in Manama on 6 December 2010 organised by the International Desalination Association.
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WRF issues four new RFPs
The WateReuse Research Foundation has issued four requests for proposals (RFPs) under its Solicited Research Program and Feasibility Studies Program. Contractors are selected through a competitive process.
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Gold Coast desalination plant placed offline
Just two months after its official handover, the 125,000m³/d Gold Coast desalination plant in Queensland, Australia, is to be placed on “stand-by” mode, according to a state government announcement on 5 December 2010.
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Colorado desalination system produces hydrogen as well
A bioelectrochemical systems (BES) to concurrently desalinate salt water, produce hydrogen gas and potentially treat wastewater is being developed at the University of Colorado Denver, USA.
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Haverstraw RO pilot plant starts operations
Operation of United Water’s Haverstraw Water Supply Project desalination pilot study located in West Haverstraw, New York, began on 23 November 2010.
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Permit sought for RO discharge to Great Salt Lake
A proposal from the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District (JCWCD) in Utah, USA, to discharge reject brine from a 7-14 MGD (26,000-53,000 m³/d) reverse-osmosis desalination (RO) plant into the Great Salt Lake is out for public comment from 1 December 2010 as part of the permit process.
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Monterey desalination gets commission green light
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) authorized plans on 2 December 2010 to develop the 10 MGD (37,850 m³/d) Regional Desalination Project, which will be built on the California central coast north of Monterey.
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Two Spanish desalination plants get ERI PX devices
Energy Recovery Inc (ERI) is to supply energy recovery-devices for two new seawater reverse-osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants currently under construction along the Mediterranean coast of Spain.
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Hunter Water to look at desalination/reuse again
Desalination and water reuse are back on the table as options for the future water supply of the Hunter Valley area of New South Wales, Australia, following the state government’s axing of the Tillegra dam on 28 November 2010.