Category: Projects
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Spanish opposition calls for end to paralysis of giant desalination project
Opposition politicians in Alicante, Spain have called on the country’s central government to implement the completion of two, long-delayed reverse osmosis desalination plants to avoid urgent problems in the province amid a current drought.
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Venezuela’s largest desalination plant to start this year
Venezuela state-owned oil firm PDVSA expects by the end of the year to start operating a US$ 200 million seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant to provide water for oil refineries on the Paraguaná peninsula and drinking water for local communities.
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Delayed Tarpon Springs reverse osmosis plant nears completion
Construction of a long-awaited US$ 45 million brackish water reverse-osmosis plant at the US city of Tarpon Springs, Florida is close to completion a few weeks behind schedule.
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China ups desalt capacity by 16%
China increased its desalination plant capacity by about 16% last year, according to a government statement this month.
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US city seeks to buy itself out of ‘albatross’ desalination deal
The mayor of US city, Brockton in Massachusetts has proposed an US$ 88 million bid by the city to buy its near-unused Dighton desalination plant to free it from a 20-year contract with the plant owner.
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Nine desalination studies bag US$ 1.4 million funding
Nine research projects and pilot studies will share US$1.4 million in funding under a desalination and water purification research programme set up by the US Bureau of Reclamation.
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Oman plans desalination for Duqm
Oman’s Public Authority for Electricity and Water has requested Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) to initiate procurement for a new 30,000 m³/d independent water project to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2017 according to OPWP annual report.
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CalAm awaits result of US$ 1 million fund bid
California American Water (CalAm) is awaiting the results of its application for US$ 1 million in funding for subsurface intake testing for its proposed Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project under the Department of Water Resources Proposition 50 desalination grants programme.
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Joint venture wins Perth groundwater replenishment contract
Western Australia’s Water Corporation has awarded a contract to design, construct, and commission a full-scale advanced water replenishment plant (AWRP) to a joint venture between CH2M Hill,and engineering company Thiess. The project will help secure Perth’s drinking water supplies through 2060
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Abengoa signs desalination deal with Chilean power group
Chilean generator AES Gener signed a contract with Spanish engineering firm Abengoa for a water desalination plant that will supply the power for the Angamos northern coal-fired power plant. And a water utility also in the north of country has pledged to forge ahead with a desalination project despite public opposition.