Tag: Caribbean
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Global demand for desalination to rise each year until at least 2020
Desalination capacity is expected to grow by 8 per cent annually to 140 million m3/d by 2020, new research shows.
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St Kitts and Nevis ponders desalination
Caribbean dual-island state, St Kitts and Nevis’ minister of public infrastructure, Ian Liburd has revealed that the government is considering seawater desalination as one of two options for tackling water shortages on the islands that have led recently to rationing.
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St Kitts ponders desalination plant to counter dry periods
A proposal to build a new desalination plant was among strategies being pursued by the St. Kitts and Nevis ministry of public infrastructure to ensure water supply can meet the growing demand of the population of the Caribbean island duo.
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Barbados ponders more desalination to tackle water scarcity
Barbados is very likely to soon have another desalination plant according to minister of agriculture, food, fisheries and water resource management, David Estwick.
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New IDA board elected
The International Desalination Association (IDA) has elected its 2015-2017 board of directors.
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GE wins desalination plant deal for Caribbean island
GE is to supply its Procera water filtration equipment package for a seawater desalination plant expansion project in Hato on the Caribbean island of Bonaire, a Netherlands- governed municipality, 80 km north of Venezuela.
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Six Chinese firms sign Venezuelan desalination deal
The Venezuelan government has signed agreements with six Chinese companies to install water desalination plants at coastal sites in the Latin American country.
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Caribbean desalination expansion completes tests
The Desalination company of Trinidad and Tobago (Desalcott) has recently completed a performance test of its expanded Point Lisas seawater reverse osmosis plant.
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Grenada government tries again with RO desalination
The report on the Grenada government’s website on 21 May 2014 that it was building reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination plants on the islands of Carriacou and Petite Martinique might not be quite as good as it sounds.
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Comparison of three 2013 Caribbean SWRO desalination systems
Florida-based Seven Seas Water commissioned three desalination plants in the Caribbean in 2013. This article looks at the technical differences between the plants and the challenges in commissioning them. This article first appeared in the February/March 2014 issue of Desalination & Water Reuse magazine.