Category: Disinfection
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Thomas Will becomes Aquarion Group COO and MD
Switzerland’s Aquarion Group announced on 14 April 2014 that Thomas Will had joined the company as chief operating officer and managing director.
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GE and Aramco launch desalination energy challenge
GE ecomagination and Aramco Entrepreneurship launched a worldwide open technology challenge on 15 April 2014 to speed up efforts to improve the energy-efficiency of seawater desalination.
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WRRF finds metrics perception divide in water-reuse studies
A difference in the way agencies carrying out water-reuse case-studies view metrics compared with a more general set of stakeholders has been identified by a study carried out by the WateReuse Research Foundation (WRRF).
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Alamagordo adds projects, hosts desalination contest
Three more desalination research projects have been added to the program being undertaken at the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility (BGNDRF ) in Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA.
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Funding for reuse offered by Bureau of Reclamation
The US government’s Bureau of Reclamation has announced a funding opportunity for feasibility studies of water reclamation and reuse for non-federal government entities, indian tribes, water districts, wastewater districts or rural water districts in the 17 western US states and Hawaii.
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California board offers low-interest water‑reuse finance
California’s Water Resources Control Board (WRCB) has approved new low-interest financing terms for water-recycling projects that can be completed within three years of governor Jerry Brown’s drought declaration on 17 January 2014.
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Is the axial piston pump the next big efficiency gain?
More and more SWRO plants running parallel trains Danfoss RO Solutions, Netherlands Two articles on the same theme: are we about to see a move away from large high-pressure centrifugal pumps for RO desalination in favour of multiple modules with smaller pumps? The first reviews modular positive-displacement waterlubricated axial-piston pump systems, revealing that this new…
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B&V’s Rimer joins board of WateReuse Research Foundation
Alan Rimer, director of water reuse for Black & Veatch, was recently elected to the WateReuse Research Foundation board of directors.
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Asian agricultural water-reuse risk ‘exceeds WHO limits’
Australian researchers have found that wastewater used to irrigate vegetable plots in Asian countries poses health risks that may exceed World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.
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August Rocky Mountain reuse workshop set for Golden
This year’s Rocky Mountain Water Reuse Workshop is to be held at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, on 14 August 2014.