Tag: California
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Huntington Beach councillors oppose desalination plan
The City of Huntington Beach in California voted on 6 May 2013 to allow council members to individually send letters to the California Coastal Commission (CCC) opposing the coastal development permit (CDP) for a seawater desalination plant which the previous council had approved in 2010.
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Pacific Institute reports on desalination energy use
The Pacific Institute has published the next instalment of its series on Key Issues For Seawater Desalination in California, this time looking at energy requirements and associated greenhouse gas emissions for desalinated water.
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HTI joins Stanford University board for ReNUWIt program
Forward-osmosis specialist Hydration Technology Innovations LLC (HTI), was recently selected to serve on the Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) of the Stanford University Engineering Research Center (ERC) for the USA’s Re-inventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt) program.
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Chinese visitors for West Basin water-reuse plant
California’s West Basin Municipal Water district announced on 26 April 2013 that earlier in the month it had received a visit from a group of public and private administrators from China interested to learn about water recycling facilities and the management experiences of US enterprises in wastewater treatment.
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Key Issues for Seawater Desalination in California: Cost and Financing
The Pacific Institute published a controversial paper, Desalination, With A Grain Of Salt, in June 2006, assessing seawater desalination in California. Report author Heather Cooley updated her work in an article in Desalination & Water Reuse(August/September 2007), while Nikolay Voutchkov, then associated with the Carlsbad project, wrote a response to the report in D&WR (November/December…
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GRA web seminar to look at California salt plans
CalDesal, the California desalination non-profit organisation, is joining a web seminar on Workflow for Salt and Nutrient Plans on 15 May 2013 presented by the Groundwater Resources Association with the Association of California Water Agencies.
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Industrial WateReuse conference to be held in Long Beach
The WateReuse Association (WRA) has issued a call for abstracts for its first Industrial Reuse Specialty Conference.
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Puretec acquires Layne Christensen’s DI assets
California-based Puretec Industrial Water announced at the end of March 2013 that it had acquired the assets of Layne Christensen’s Arizona-based deionization water purification and water system maintenance services as from 1 April 2013.
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Santa Cruz prepares for desalination EIR release
The Californian city of Santa Cruz and Soquel Creek Water District are holding a special joint study session on 7 May 2013 at the City Council Chambers to receive information on the scwd2 Regional Seawater Desalination Project draft environmental impact report (EIR) which is expected to be released in mid-May.
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Design/build RFQ issued for Monterey desalination plant
A request for qualifications (RFQ) was issued on 1 April 2013 by California American Water (Cal Am) for the desalination infrastructure component of its Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project.