Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Giant solar-cell factory to have HERO water purification
The largest silicon solar manufacturing factory in the world is to use a high-efficiency reverse- osmosis (HERO) ultra-pure water treatment system supplied by GE. SunPower Corp selected GE to supply the new SunPower-AUO joint-venture solar-cell fabrication plant in Malaysia.
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Water authority seeks to buy Carlsbad desalination water
The San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) in California voted on 24 June 2010 to work on a contract with Poseidon Resources to purchase water from Poseidon’s Carlsbad Desalination Project.
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Karachi cantonment plans 2 MGD desalination stopgap
Karachi’s Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) is planning to establish a 2 MGD (9,000 m³/d) reverse-osmosis desalination plant to mitigate some of the 7 MGD (32,000 m³/d) water shortage in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA), CBC CEO Muhammad Hayat Mahr told a meeting in the Pakistan capital on 23 June 2010.
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Sorek desalination plant will reach 300 million m³/year
Israel’s government on 20 June 2010 approved construction of the Sorek desalination plant, which could end up as one of the largest in the world.
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Coquina Coast desalination agreement revised
An amended and restated memorandum of agreement relating to the proposed Coquina Coast Seawater Desalination Project in Florida, USA, was agreed by Palm Coast city council, the project leader, on 15 June 2010.
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IDA Congress exhibition sold out
The exhibition which will accompany next year’s International Desalination Association World Congress has completely sold out.
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USEPA tightens monitoring rule for TC in drinking water
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on 17 June 2010 that it is proposing to revise the 1989 Total Coliform Rule to incorporate improvements recommended by a federal advisory committee.
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San Diego IPR demonstration project held up
Approval of a contract with Camp Dresser & McKee (CDM) for construction of an indirect potable water-reuse demonstration project in San Diego failed to pass a meeting of the Californian city’s Natural Resources & Culture (NRC) committee on 16 June 2010.
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Membrane antiscalant receives sodium benzoate infusion
Professional Water Technologies, the California-based business unit of H2O Innovation, has developed a new method of infusing its dendrimer antiscalant technology, developed for reverse-osmosis and membrane filtration markets, with sodium benzoate, a bacteriostatic and fungistatic preservative widely used in food and beverage applications.
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Chairman appointed for Australian desalination centre
Graeme Rowley, a former executive director of Fortescue Metals, has been appointed chairman of the National Centre for Excellence in Desalination at Murdoch University, Australia.