Category: Projects
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Aquatech installs Emirates desalination plant
Water and wastewater technology company, Aquatech, has installed a 60 Ml/d seawater reverse osmosis-based desalination plant at Ghalilah, in Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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Carlsbad ahead of schedule
The giant Carlsbad seawater desalination plant in California is about a month ahead of schedule for completion with a start date now in October according to its builder, Poseidon Water.
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Singapore to build fourth desalination plant
Singapore’s national water agency, PUB, has tendered for the provision of consultancy services for a desalination plant in Marina East – the country’s fourth.
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Population surge to reinstate mothballed desalination
Population growth in the Gold Coast region of Queensland, Australia, could lead to the reinstatement of a controversial, mothballed seawater desalination plant at Tugun from summer 2020.
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IDE supplies evaporators to groundbreaking Chinese project
Bomo Environmental Engineering has purchased two evaporators from IDE Technologies as part of China’s first produced water treatment plant. The facility in Karamay, Xinjian will be the first in China to operate under a Build Operate Own (BOO) model. The win marks IDE’s bid to raise its profile in the oil and gas sector, the…
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CONGRESS NEWS Desalination industry embraces conservation as vital ally
Desalination industry leaders this week declared emphatic support for the role of sustainable measures alongside advances in desalination to address growing water scarcity. Opening speakers at the IDA World Congress in San Diego emphasized the importance of conservation and water recycling in meeting an escalating global challenge from water scarcity.
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South Africa looks to the sea
South Africa’s Department of Water and Sanitation is considering desalinating seawater to help ease the country’s water problems as it struggles amid its worst drought in more than 20 years.
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Israel to join top ten water stressed by 2040
The US-based World Resources Institute has forecast that Israel will be among the world’s ten most water stressed regions by 2040. Almost half of those regions will be in the Middle East according to recent report by the institute.
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Oman trial plant eases water scarcity
Trial operation of a new desalination plant near the Oman capital, Muscat, is already alleviating water scarcity there according to the Oman’s Public Authority for Electricity and Water.
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Biofouling – a new start
This article first appeared in the August 2015 issue of Desalination & Water Reuse magazine.