Category: Instruments & controls
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Sinai development continues with plans for new desalination capacity
Egypt’s Ministry of International Co-operation and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development have signed a deal to build a new desalination plant in East Port Said.
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Wilson joins Water Planet in business development role
Water Planet has appointed Thomas Wilson as senior vice president of business development, to help drive the company’s growth strategy.
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WE&RF appoints chief to run multi-million dollar research portfolio
Jeff Mosher has joined the Water Environment & Reuse Foundation (WE&RF) as chief research and strategic planning officer to lead its integrated water research programme.
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Tajikistan to host symposium on best practice in water management
The Republic of Tajikistan and the United Nations department of economic and social affairs are running a symposium on sustainable water management on 9 August, in Tajik’s capital city, Dushanbe, reports Tehran Times.
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Palestine to receive desal plant as part of Turkey-Israel deal
Palestine is receiving a new desalination plant as part of a deal struck between Israel and Turkey to repair relations following the killing of 10 Turkish activists on a ship bound for Gaza six years ago.
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Water scarcity stokes civil unrest in rural India
The Times of India is reporting a series of protests about a lack of drinking water by groups of hundreds of people in rural areas of southern India.
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Israel connects desalination plants into national water system
Mekorot National Water Company of Israel is laying a pipe to connect the desalination plant in Ashdod, with plants in Soreq and Palmachim, reports Globes.
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UAE is eyeing alternative energy sources to power desalination
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority is seeking proposals to study the feasibility of powering desalination by geothermal energy, reports The National.
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MIT researchers host Reddit Ask Me Anything session on photovoltaic EDR system
Researchers at MIT have developed a solar-powered electrodialysis system that could "provide 250 million people in India with safe and affordable water," MIT News reports.
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India’s ONGC seeks secure water supplies for oil and gas production: reports
A memorandum of understanding signed by India’s Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) with the Singapore government, on sharing technology for water recycling, could help MIDC in bidding for a new desalination project in Uran, reports the Times of India.
