Category: Projects
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Sweetwater starts US$ 42 million desalination upgrade
Sweetwater Authority has begun its US$ 42 million expansion of the Richard Reynolds Groundwater Desalination facility in Chula Vista.
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RWL consortium wins Baja California desalination deal
Mid market water treatment firm, RWL Water, in a consortium with Mexican partners, Libra Ingenieros and RJ Ingenieria, has won a contract to build a 22,000 m³/d seawater desalination plant in San Quintín, Baja California.
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Oman plant goes down for third time this year
Water production at Sohar Power Company’s (SPC’s) desalination plant in Oman failed for the third time this year due to “unspecified technical problems”.
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Ghana union calls for review of Teshie-Nungua water purchase deal
Ghana’s Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) has called for a review of a water purchase agreement between supplier, Ghana Water Company (GWC), and Korean firm, BEFESA Desalination Developments Ghana, explaining that the current agreement jeopardized the water supplier.
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Kuwait shortlists seven for power and water project
Kuwait has shortlisted seven consortiums for the second phase of the Az Zour North Complex independent water and power producer (IWPP) project.
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Researchers reconsider osmotic power prospects
Researchers at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia claim to have demonstrated sound prospects for harnessing the energy created in salinity gradients – where, for example, freshwater meets the sea. Earlier studies failed to provide convincing indications that the vast theoretical potential of this renewable source of power could realise an economical return.
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Jersey contracts ACWA to upgrade desalination plant
Utility, Jersey Water, has contracted international water and wastewater treatment firm, ACWA Services, to carry a out a £6 million (US$ 9 million) upgrade of the Channel Island’s La Rosière desalination plant in a bid to cut operating costs and meet rising demand.
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San Diego pilot go ahead – marines may hit the beach
San Diego County Water Authority has given the go ahead for a US$ 4 million project to build a two-year pilot to test methods of desalinating seawater into potable water. The deal is part of the authority’s agreement with the US Marine Corps on a means to study how a desalination plant might be built…
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Santa Barbara starts desalination rebuild
Work has started on the US$ 47 million replacement of a 30-year old, virtually unused desalination plant in Santa Barbara, California to make way for a new plant after the city gave the go ahead for a return to desalination as a means to address drought.
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Santa Barbara forges desalination partnership
Californian city, Santa Barbara, has agreed to discuss inviting Montecito Water District to join its desalination plant project currently under construction. Santa Barbara recently received the regulatory green light for the project.