Category: Projects
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Omani nationals offered stake in Al Ghubra desalination plant
Muscat City Desalination Company (MCDC), the joint venture set up to run Al Ghubra desalination plant, Oman, is publicly offering its shares for sale.
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Scheider Electric and Egypt in talks over desalination plans
Schneider Electric, the French energy management group, is in talks with Egypt’s ministry of housing, utilities and urban communities about investing in desalination and wastewater treatment projects, reports Almal News.
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Water Corporation prepares to expand Perth desalination plant
Water Corporation of Western Australia has acquired 15.2 hectares of land adjacent to Perth desalination plant for a possible expansion of capacity, reports The West Australian.
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Ocean conservationists challenge Huntington Beach decision in court
A coalition of environmental groups in California has filed a lawsuit challenging the State Lands Commission on its decision to approve amendments to Poseidon’s environmental impact study for the Huntington Beach desalination project.
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FCC Aqualia buys back shares in Czech business
FCC Aqualia is buying back a 49 per cent stake in its water business in the Czech Republic that it sold to Mitsui in 2013.
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Samsung files for arbitration against SWCC over Yanbu 3 cancellation
Samsung Engineering has asked the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) to begin arbitration proceedings against Saudi Arabia over the cancellation of its contract on Yanbu 3 water and power project.
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Acciona and GS Inima submit EoIs for desalination project in Fortaleza, Brazil
Cagece, the water utility of Ceara state, northeast Brazil, has received two expressions of interest for a 86,400 m3/d capacity seawater desalination plant to serve the metro region of state capital city Fortaleza.
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GMVP opened the SWRO-PRO pilot plant of recovering the salinity gradient energy
GMVP recently opened the SWRO-PRO pilot plant at Nambu wastewater treatment plant located in Korean port city of Busan. The pilot is used to demonstrate the technical feasibility of PRO (pressure retarded osmosis) to recover the salinity gradient energy.
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Sri Lanka issues RfP for desalination PPP at Hambantota
Sri Lanka Ministry of Development Strategies and International Trade has issued a request for proposals (RfP) on a seawater desalination plant at Hambantota, in its Southern Province.
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Red Sea-Dead Sea tender held up by diplomatic row
The Red Sea-Dead Sea project has hit a block after Israel’s embassy in Jordan was closed in response to a shooting in July 2017.
