Author: Water. Desalination + reuse

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Interim findings by engineering giant, Veolia, from trials designed to up efficiency and develop renewable energy-driven desalination have already outstripped energy reduction targets the company has reported.

Australian island rigs up solar powered desalination

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Rottnest Island, off the Western Australian coast, is constructing a solar power source for the island’s population including its desalination plant.

Indian oil firm builds effluent treatment plant to cut freshwater use

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in Desalination

Indian Oil’s Gujarat refinery is investing Rs 160 crores (US$ 24.1 million) in setting up a reverse osmosis (RO) plant at its 13.7 million-tonnes-a-year refinery.

Evoqua bags municipal deals worth US$ 20 million

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in Desalination, Projects

Water treatment firm, Evoqua, has won contracts worth more than US$ 20 million supplying its Memcor microfiltration and ultrafiltration product line to six US and Canadian municipalities. The deals were for filtration, water reuse, drinking water treatment, and reverse-osmosis pre-treatment applications.

Chile’s copper mines will turn to desalination for half their water

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Desalination will provide half the water demand of Chile’s copper mining industry by 2026, according to findings in a report by the Chilean state copper commission, Cochilco.

Monterey desalination project seeks four-year deadline extension

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US water supplier, California American Water (CalAm), along with local stakeholders has sought more time to complete its Monterey Peninsular desalination project.

LG Chem bags five orders worth US$ 8 million

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in Water reuse

LG Chem has acquired new orders for water purification filters totalling US$ 8 million under exclusive deals with five desalination projects. The projects are at sites in Israel, Spain, Malta, Egypt and Mexico, the company said.

Veolia signs Kazakhstan deal

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Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kazyna Capital Management to implement jointly a seawater desalination plant in Kazakhstan.

Qatar ups desalination capacity

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Qatar has upped its desalination capacity by 144 Ml/d after Qatar Electricity and Water’s (QEWC’s) inauguration of its US$ 504 million, Ras Abu Fontas multi-stage flash distillation plant A2. And QEWC has commenced construction work on its Ras Abu Fontas A3 desalination plant at Ras Abu Fontas, near Al Wakra.

PUB picks HSL Constructor for Singapore’s third plant

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