Category: Projects
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Sacyr-led group wins Oman deal
A consortium led by Sacyr subsidiary Valoriza Agua has won a US$ 1.2 billion, design, construction, operation and maintenance deal for a 250,000m³/d reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant in Sohar on Oman’s Batinah coast.
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Korea and Iran in desalination deal
An agreement to construct a new 60 Ml/d desalination plant in Iran is one of three deals worth some US$ 1.6 billion signed by Iran and South Korea recently.
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Desalination’s ‘hidden assets’
Renewable hydropower generated at desalination plants and other existing infrastructure could bring economic and environmental benefits to Australia’s biggest cities, according to research findings from Griffith University.
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IDE buys out Hadera operator partner
Desalination developer, IDE, is buying out its partner in the Hadera desalination plant operating company in a NIS 80 million (US$ 20 million) deal.
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Cyprus mobile desalination dismantled
A €30 million (US$ 33 million) mobile desalination unit constructed to supply the city of Paphos on Cyprus’s southwest coast is being disassembled after years of near idleness, according to local press.
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Drought stricken California county looks to nuclear plant desalination plant
California’s San Luis Obispo County board of supervisors has approved a sewage reclamation project that could add treated wastewater to an aquifer and the expansion of a desalination facility at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant as emergency water supply options.
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Mississippi researchers win funding for low-temperature desalination
Mississippi State University (MSU), is to use US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding to work on a low-cost desalination process.
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Oman signs US$ 300 million water project agreement
Oman Power and Water Procurement Company, the sultanate’s sole procurer of new power generation and water desalination capacity, has signed water project agreements worth 115 million rial (US$ 300 million).
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Antigua seawater desalination plant poised for start
West Indies island, Antigua is currently testing a reverse osmosis seawater desalination facility which could come on stream in March.
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Australian state approves temporary desalination plant
Australia’s Queensland state government has approved a US$ 7 million temporary desalination plant to supply a community near Townsville on Palm Island with water for nine months.