Tag: California
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South Orange desalination project moves forward
The Municipal Water District of Orange County (MWDOC), California, USA, announced on 3 February 2010 the award of a US$ 1.05 million dollar contract for Phase 3 of the South Orange Coastal Ocean Desalination Project.
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Carlsbad desalination gets US$ 530 million bonds
The California Debt Limitation Allocation Committee (CDLAC) voted on 27 January 2010 to allocated US$ 530 million in private activity bonds (PABs) to the Carlsbad Desalination Project.
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Carlsbad legal challenge loses Surfrider Foundation.
One of the two groups staging a last-ditch challenge to the Carlsbad desalination plant, Surfrider Foundation, has abandoned its legal challenge to the California State Lands Commission’s approval of the project.
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Monterey desalination plant moves forward
Desalinated water could come to the Monterey coast of California “as soon as 2012”, according to the Marina Coast Water District.
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Stover quits ERI ‘to pursue other endeavours’
Dr Richard Stover, one of the key figures in the rise of Energy Recovery Inc in the last decade, has resigned from the company “to pursue other endeavours”.
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Mexico seeks investment for Ensenada desalination plant
Mexico is looking for funding to build a desalination plant in Ensenada, Baja California, to supply drinking water to 96,000 people.
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Coastal Commission reaffirms Carlsbad desalination permit
By a 9:3 majority, the California Coastal Commissioners on 10 December 2009 voted to dismiss the request to revoke the Carlsbad Desalination Project’s Coastal Development Permit (CDP).
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Are you ready for CaviGulation?
Cavitation Technologies Inc, which has been touting its nano technologies around various industries over the past year, has announced the development of the CaviGulation system, designed for physico-chemical reactions used in water treatment and desalination in particular.
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Another carbon nanotube desalination system launched
A carbon-nanotube technology for water desalination and other liquid-based-separations has been licensed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the USA exclusively to Porifera Inc of Hayward, California, a company set up in 2008 to market the technology.
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Makhzoumi elected IDA president for 2009-11
The International Desalination Association (IDA) announced on 12 November 2009 that Imad Makhzoumi had been elected its new president for 2009-2011.