Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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H₂O Innovation appoints new top brass
H₂O Innovation has appointed Marc Blanchet as chief financial officer and Guillaume Clairet as chief operating officer.
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Santa Barbara starts desalination rebuild
Work has started on the US$ 47 million replacement of a 30-year old, virtually unused desalination plant in Santa Barbara, California to make way for a new plant after the city gave the go ahead for a return to desalination as a means to address drought.
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Xylem plans to up acquisitions this year
Water technology firm, Xylem, has told analysts that it will seek to achieve “above-market organic growth” along with “accelerated acquisition activity.”
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Adionics salt extraction pinpoints ions
Salt extraction technology specialist, Adionics, has launched a selective ion extraction method for water deionization.
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Egypt researchers unveil new low-cost membrane for desalting
Researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt have published what they claim to be a new low-cost-desalination technology that uses little energy and cheap membrane materials.
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Santa Barbara forges desalination partnership
Californian city, Santa Barbara, has agreed to discuss inviting Montecito Water District to join its desalination plant project currently under construction. Santa Barbara recently received the regulatory green light for the project.
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Xylem keeps place in US top sustainability league for fourth year
US water technology company, Xylem, has continued a run of inclusions in high-profile lists of companies showing outstanding performance in their environmental and social measures.
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Xylem treatment boosts Chesapeake water quality project
Water technology firm, Xylem, has won a contract to provide advanced treatment to an existing wastewater treatment plant in the city of Frederick, Maryland and play a key role in an initiative focused on improving water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Chennai to get third desalination plant
India’s Tamil Nadu state government has pushed ahead plans to build a third desalination plant at the city of Chennai with investment from German government funding agency, Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW).
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IDA 2015 World Congress draws 1,700 delegates
More than 1,700 delegates from 63 countries attended the International Desalination Association’s (IDA’s) 2015 World Congress held in San Diego recently according to the association’s key metrics published this week. Awards for papers and presentations topped US$ 30,000.