Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Cooling water system can treat brackish water
Lower quality brackish or surface water sources and even recycled wastewater can be treated to a standard suitable for makeup water needs using a new Advanced Cooling Solution introduced by GE Water & Process Technologies.
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Public opinion restricts Queensland water reuse
The Queensland state government in north-east Australia has had to tell the Queensland Water Commission that reused wastewater can only be recycled to Wivenhoe dam in emergencies.
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Dublin desalination is one option of ten
Dublin City Council invited views on 21 November 2008 on 10 options for augmenting existing water sources for the Dublin region, including desalination of water from the Irish Sea.
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Mobile water treatment service for Saudi
Siemens Water Technologies has established its first mobile water treatment installation outside North America to Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia.
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Reuse milestone for West Basin district
West Basin Municipal Water District (WBMWD) in California, USA, produced its 100 billionth gallon of reused wastewater in November 2008.
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Food for thought for delegates at EDS conference
The continuously queuing water tankers in the road servicing the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre and its four adjacent hotels leave visitors in no doubt that Jordan is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world.
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Spanish/Australian consortium wins 2nd Perth plant
Australia’s Water Corporation has announced that the Southern SeaWater Alliance (SSWA) is the preferred consortium to build and operate Western Australia’s second seawater desalination plant near Binningup.
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Dow UF is sole pretreatment for Chinese cogen plant
China’s ShanXi DaTong Co-gen has selected Dow ultrafiltration (UF) membranes for its 300MW heat/electricity cogeneration plant in DaTong in ShanXi province.
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Desalination “unavoidable” for Jordan
Desalination is “an unavoidable option” for Jordan, said Prof Mousa Mohsen from The Hashemite University, when he addressed the opening ceremony of the EuroMed Conference on the shores of the Dead Sea on 10 November 2008.
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SWCC hires privatization advisors
Seven letters of intent have been signed by the governor of Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), Fehied F Al Shareef, to hire international and local advisors for the state desalination company’s Privatization & Restructuring Implementation Program.