Category: Projects
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Xylem wins US$7.3 million Bahrain wastewater upgrade deal
Switzerland-based water technology company Xylem has signed a US$7.3 million contract with Bahrain’s Ministry of Works to upgrade a wastewater treatment facility in the Bahrain capital Manama.
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Greece ponders desalination for Aegean islands
The Greek government is pondering a strategy to boost desalination on the Aegean islands after a new plant on Hydra cut the price of water there by two thirds.
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Black and Veatch win funding for US direct potable water study
The US Water Reuse Research Foundation recently awarded funding to conduct a direct potable reuse (DPR) water quality study to the Black and Veatch Corporation.
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Bids for giant Dubai power and desalination plant get more time
Dubai’s state-owned utility has extended the deadline to receive bids for the expansion project at its M-Station power production and desalination plant by one month to October 15.
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Israeli group to build desalination plants in Dar-es-Salaam
Water authorities in Dar-es-Salaam are planning to work with an Israeli consortium in constructing two reverse osmosis desalination plants to alleviate water shortage in the Tanzanian commercial capital.
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Water Reuse California appoints new managing director
WateReuse California has appointed Jennifer West as managing director of the California Section.
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Dithering over desalination threat to Western US
Indecision over desalination and water reuse projects will hit western US water supplies in the short term an analyst with market researcher Frost and Sullivan has warned.
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Spain’s Inexa to build Arab shipyard desalination plant
Bahrain’s Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard company (Asry) has awarded a US$ 8.6 million contract to Gulf Marketing House for the completion and upgrading of a reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant at Asry’s yard in the Bahrain capital, Manama. Under the build-operate-transfer deal Spanish engineering firm, Inexa, will construct the plant.
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Chemical giants strike Shanghai reuse deal
Bayer Material Science and Shanghai Chlor-Alkali Chemical (SCAC) have entered into a preliminary agreement for the reuse of wastewater from Bayer’s polycarbonate production in Shanghai.
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Hinman to take chair at CH2M Hill
President and chief executive officer of engineering consultant CH2M Hill, Jacqueline Hinman, will take up her new appointment as chairman of the board at the company on 18 September.