Category: Projects
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Osmoflo wins Australian port desalination deal
Desalination specialist, Osmoflo, has won a contract to build a desalination facility and supply water to Fortescue Metals Group at Port Hedland in Australia.
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Acciona venture wins Qatar deals
Spanish desalination firm, Acciona Agua, has won two major desalination contracts in Qatar worth US$ 525 million as part of a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation and Toyo Thai Corporation.
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Ras Al Khair bags best desalination plant prize
The Ras Al Khair project in Saudi Arabia has won the “Desalination Plant of the Year” award at the 2015 Global Water Awards.
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Mine wants state desalination plant despite OK for own project
Namibian mining company, Rössing Uranium, has restated its preference for procuring water from national water utility, Namwater, despite having completed a feasibility study of its planned desalination plant north of Swakopmund.
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Sohar desalination plant problems could cost US$ 1.8 million
Sohar Power Company (SPC) has said its water desalination plant will be brought back to full capacity by 20 June following earlier operational problems that will cost between OMR 0.7 million (US$ 1.82 million) and OMR 1.4 million, depending on the outcome of remedial actions, the company said in an online statement.
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Rio Tinto mine mulls building Namibian desalination plant
Rio Tinto’s Rossing Uranium mine in Namibia is planning an environmental impact study for its proposed water desalination plant.
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Orange County officials nod towards Huntingdon deal
Orange County water officials have moved toward buying water from Posiedon’s proposed giant desalination plant at Huntingdon Beach.
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Dubai invites bids for turnkey solar-powered reverse osmosis desalination project
The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has issued a tender inviting bids for the design, installation and testing and commissioning of a pilot photovoltaic-powered pumping and reverse osmosis water desalination system.
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Texas passes bill to deliver water resources
Texas has referred a major bill designed to boost desalination projects in the state to the Senate Agriculture, Water and Rural Affairs Committee.
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California adopts new rules for checking desalination applications
California regulators have adopted the states’ first rules for the permitting of seawater desalination projects.