Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Suez acquires GE Water for Euro 3.2 billion
Suez and Canada’s CDPQ (Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec) are to buy GE Water & Process Technologies for Euro 3.2 billion ($3.37 billion) in cash.
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AquaSure breathes sigh of relief as VDP fault is fixed
AquaSure has fixed a fault at the Victorian Desalination Plant (VDP) which threatened to prevent it from fulfilling its first water order of 50 gigalitres by 30 June 2017.
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Spanish firms visit Egypt on project-led trade mission
Desalination was on the agenda at the Egypt-Spain Multilateral Partnership 2017 Forum, held in Cairo, 6 to 7 March 2017.
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IDE India to deliver desalinated water to proposed new city
Karnataka State, Southwest India, is proposing to build four new desalination plants with IDE Technology India and Indian firm Vagas, as part of a project to build new city Kolar Gold Fields, reports New Indian Express.
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"We are selecting the best presentations from 323 abstracts"
Miguel Sanz, chair of the technical program for IDA World Congress 2017, introduces the main themes and highlights to look forward to at this year’s event in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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How we delivered Az Zour North phase one
"With hindsight we were very lucky to get everything through on time and that our construction partner Hyundai Heavy Industries was on time. Fortunately we escaped a lot of those little wrinkles that need sorting out during construction, and can drag on and on, and so we kept to time," says Andy Biffen, chief executive…
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Qatar’s first big seawater RO plant is nearly complete
The first large scale seawater RO plant in Qatar, Ras Abu Fontas A3, is to complete by the end of March 2017, reports Gulf Times.
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Suez buoyed by strong International division
Suez has reported organic revenue growth of 1.1 per cent for the year ended December 2016, driven by a 4.7 per cent rise at its International division.
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Opportunities await at IDA World Congress 2017 in Brazil
Latin America, and particularly Brazil, is a big user of desalination and water reuse technology, and there is huge potential for the growth of these technologies in the region, writes Emilio Gabbrielli, president of the International Desalination Association (IDA).
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Koh Brothers bags Marina East subcontract
Keppel Seghers has subcontracted Singapore’s Koh Brothers Building & Civil Engineering as construction partner on the Marina East desalination plant project.








