Tag: Australia
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US$ 2.9 billion Melbourne desalination contract goes to Degremont group
The Suez/Degremont-led consortium Aquasure has been awarded the contract to build the 150 million m³/year seawater desalination plant for Melbourne, Australia.
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DRACE wins Melbourne recycling design contract
City West Water, the water supply company for Melbourne, Australia, has awarded Spanish contractor DRACE medioambiente, in joint venture with Tedagua, an Aus$ 36.5 million (US$ 30.4 million) design contract for a water recycling system.
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Study starts on salinity reclamation of W Australian river
Mitigation measures such as desalination and diversion could be proposed for the Collie river basin in Western Australia as a result of an independent review of possible strategies for salinity recovery, which has just been started by consultants KPMG and Worley Parsons.
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Commission to investigate Antiguan desalination repayment
The chief justice of New South Wales, Australia, James Jacob Spigelman, is to head a commission of inquiry in Antigua into the repayment by the government of Antigua & Barbuda of a US$ 29.75 million loan from Japanese desalination supplier IHI to the Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA), the government announced on 24 July 2009.
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Australians to demonstrate JetWater CSG treatment
EESTech Inc has awarded the exclusive Australian rights for its JetWater thermal desalination system to Australian water treatment company Impulse Hydro.
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Desalination designers need to note new salinity equation
Experts attending the 25th assembly of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in Paris on 24 June 2009 recommended that the entire oceanographic community adopt the Thermodynamic Equation of Seawater and the use of Absolute Salinity.
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Some Gold Coast desalination issues still unresolved
A large number of non-compliance issues relating to the Gold Coast seawater desalination plant in Queensland, Australia, have been listed in a letter sent on 2 July 2009 by Keith Davies, CEO of WaterSecure, who are taking over the project, to the Queensland Department of Infrastructure & Planning.
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South Australia adopts state-wide desalination policy
A state-wide desalination policy to guide future proposals and a target to recycle up to 75 million m³ of stormwater are among 90 strategies outlined by the government of South Australia (SA) in a comprehensive plan to guarantee the state’s water security to 2050 and beyond.
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Second Perth desalination plant starts in three weeks
Less than a week after getting federal government clearance, the contract for the Southern Seawater Desalination Plant was signed on 30 June 2009.
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State visit signing for Adelaide desalination expansion
The AdelaideAqua consortium, led by Spain’s Acciona Agua, has received a contract from the state government of South Australia to double the production capacity of the Port Stanvac (Adelaide) desalination plant.