Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Australian public lack desalination and reuse info says survey
A quarter of all Australians are “not at all informed” about water reuse or desalination, according to a national survey carried out by the Australian Water Association.
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PWT completes its new membrane antiscalant factory
Canadian membrane treatment company H2O Innovation Inc announced on 14 October 2010 that its California business unit Professional Water Technologies (PWT) had completed the build-out and renovation of its dendrimer antiscalant production facility in Vista, CA.
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CaribDA to sponsor Chile desalination seminar
The Caribbean Desalination Association (CaribDA) announced on 14 October 2010 that it would be a sponsor of a seminar on Desalination, Innovations & Sustainable Development to be held in Antofagasta, Chile, during 29 November – 1 December 2010.
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Reclamation Bureau’s water recycling and reuse funding criteria published
The US government’s Bureau of Reclamation published on 15 October 2010 the funding criteria under its Title XVI – Water Recycling & Reuse Program for two new funding opportunity announcements in fiscal year 2011.
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HTI deal takes forward osmosis to China
The world’s only commercial manufacturer of forward-osmosis (FO) membranes, modules and systems, Hydration Technologies Innovations LLC (HTI), reached an international distribution, services and cooperation agreement for FO technology with Chinese company Tri-Tech Holding Inc.
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PoU reverse-osmosis planned for US city’s households
The City of Andrews, USA, is likely to submit a proposal to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) at the end of this year for installation of point-of-use (PoU) reverse-osmosis (RO) water treatment on 4,500 city homes.
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Fedco pressure-booster beats 80% efficiency
“We’re now ready to go after any project in the world,” Eli Oklejas, president of Fedco, told D&WR, after he had announced that a performance test on the company’s hydraulic pressure booster (HPB) energy-recovery device for desalination had surpassed 80% efficiency.
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Three hundred Fybroc seawater pumps ordered for giant aquarium
The Global Pump Solutions business unit of Met-Pro Corporation has received an order to supply more than 300 corrosion-resistant glass-fiber centrifugal pumps for a marine life park at a world-class casino resort complex in the heart of Southeast Asia.
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Twelve sewer-mining wastewater-reuse plants in Sydney
The government of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, has awarded a water-recycling licence to Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies to build a recycled water plant at the Aus$ 500 million (US$ 490 million) Darling Quarter development.
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UTEP gets desalination grants from Reclamation
The US Bureau of Reclamation has made grants worth US$ 650,000 to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) College of Engineering under its Desalination & Water Purification Program.