Category: Projects

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Barbados is very likely to soon have another desalination plant according to minister of agriculture, food, fisheries and water resource management, David Estwick.

Egypt opts to grow desalination plant

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Egypt’s cabinet economic committee, under prime minister Sherif Ismail, has agreed to provide the funds required to complete expansion in works and production capacity at a seawater desalination plant in Hurghada.

Masdar green desalination competition kicks off

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All four participants in the competition to develop sustainable means to meet the United Arab Emirates’ potable water demand have begun operating small-scale experimental desalination plants at a pilot facility set up by the competition organizer, Masdar, in Abu Dhabi.

Point Lisas back in action

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Trinidad’s Point Lisas desalination plant has resumed operation following the completion of extensive planned maintenance work by its owner, the Desalination Company of Trinidad and Tobago.

Boart Longyear wins slant well deal

Nov 30, 2015

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California American Water (CalAm) has selected drilling firm, Boart Longyear, to construct seven to nine source water slant wells that would draw ocean water for a desalination facility proposed as part of CalAm’s US$ 320 million Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project.

Veolia tops targets in Masdar desalination pilot programme

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Interim findings by engineering giant, Veolia, from trials designed to up efficiency and develop renewable energy-driven desalination have already outstripped energy reduction targets the company has reported.

Australian island rigs up solar powered desalination

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Rottnest Island, off the Western Australian coast, is constructing a solar power source for the island’s population including its desalination plant.

Evoqua bags municipal deals worth US$ 20 million

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in Desalination, Projects

Water treatment firm, Evoqua, has won contracts worth more than US$ 20 million supplying its Memcor microfiltration and ultrafiltration product line to six US and Canadian municipalities. The deals were for filtration, water reuse, drinking water treatment, and reverse-osmosis pre-treatment applications.

Chile’s copper mines will turn to desalination for half their water

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Desalination will provide half the water demand of Chile’s copper mining industry by 2026, according to findings in a report by the Chilean state copper commission, Cochilco.

Monterey desalination project seeks four-year deadline extension

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