Tag: Desalination
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Largest desal plant in the West gets the green light in Mexico
Consolidated Water’s Mexico subsidiary NSC Agua, in consortium with the Mexican entities of NuWater and Degremont, has won a contract to build a seawater RO desalination plant at Rosarito Beach, from the government of Baja California, Mexico.
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Hyflux secures financing for new SWRO plant in Qurayyat, Oman
Qurayyat Desalination SAOC, a subsidiary of Hyflux, has secured non-recourse finance of $185 million for a seawater RO plant in Qurayyat, Oman.
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Spiral scoops innovation award for its ‘disruptive’ automatic self-cleaning filter
Spiral Water has picked up an Innovation Award from BlueTech Research for its automatic self-cleaning water filter, a "disruptive" new filter technology according to Spiral chief executive Ashwin Gulati.
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Saudi Arabia outlines desalination strategy as part of economic reforms
Saudi Arabia is to increase the proportion of desalinated water produced by private operators from 16 to 52 per cent by 2020.
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LG Chem wins contract to supply new Sohar plant with reverse osmosis membranes
LG Water Solutions is to provide its high rejection NanoH20 reverse osmosis membranes to the new 250,000 m3/d desalination plant that is slated to be built in Sohar, Oman, by 2019.
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Australia’s Water Corporation weighs the options for climate-independent water
Australia’s Water Corporation is looking at "a range of options" for its next climate-independent source of water for western Australia, as it reaches the halfway mark of a 10-year strategy to ensure a climate-independent water supply.
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Italmach acquires Compass, adds manufacturing base in North America
Italmach Chemicals has acquired Compass Chemical International, adding a strategically important site in Texas that it hopes will support its growth in the oil and gas industry.
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Energy Recovery unveils $5.4 million contract for Middle East ‘mega projects’
US supplier Energy Recovery has won $5.4 million of contracts to supply desalination "mega projects" in the Middle East.
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Egypt plans five desalination plants by 2019
Egypt is to build five new desalination plants to serve the drinking water needs of residents in the Sinai Peninsular.
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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.


