Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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IDA opens call for papers for reuse event
The international Desalination Association (IDA) has opened its call for papers for its International Water Reuse Conference.
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Xylem to join US trade mission to India
Water technology company, Xylem, has been selected to participate in the US Department of Commerce’s Smart Cities Infrastructure Business Development Mission to India, 8-12 February.
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Indian city retail quarter to get desalination plant
The giant retail quarter of Indian city Chennai, Thyagaraya Nagar is expected to get a new 41 Ml/d desalination plant that would supply some 300,000 residents.
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St Kitts and Nevis ponders desalination
Caribbean dual-island state, St Kitts and Nevis’ minister of public infrastructure, Ian Liburd has revealed that the government is considering seawater desalination as one of two options for tackling water shortages on the islands that have led recently to rationing.
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Membranes attract LG Chem investment focus
Korean chemical giant, LG Chem, is focusing its investment on its water treatment operation built on its acquisition of NanoH2O as one of three business strands chosen as “more promising” and showing “growth potential”.
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Lanxess’ new space feeder cuts costs
Specialty chemicals company, Lanxess, has launched new reverse osmosis (RO) elements from its Lewabrane product line with improved performance “thanks to innovative feed spacers”. The new elements bring “considerable cost-cutting potential” said Lanxess.
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Inge’s ultrafiltration technology wins place in desalination upgrade
Subsidiary of chemical giant, BASF, Inge, will supply its ultrafiltration technology for San Jose Water Company’s upgrade of its 40-year old Montevina Water Treatment Plant. Inge forecast the project will be “well noted in the industry.”
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Fifth project enters the Masdar trial
An ongoing energy efficiency trial, in Abu Dhabi, of four new desalination plant designs is to get a fifth participant.
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Rejected slant well could work
A water intake system previously rejected for a proposed desalination plant at Huntington Beach could be viable if it is used differently, according to environmental organisation, Orange County Coastkeeper.
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Fund pledges US$ 200 million desalination loan to Egypt
The Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) has pledged to lend US$ 200 million this year, to Egypt to finance drilling wells and building desalination projects in Sinai.