Tag: Energy
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Studies start for Jordan’s first desalination plant
Jordan’s first desalination plant is expected to be operational by 2010, supplying the port city of Aqaba with 10 million m³/year, Aqaba Water Company (AWC) announced in August. The AWC has signed an agreement with Bank Muscat to study siting a plant on Aqaba’s southern coast to desalinate Red Sea water.
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Siemens seeks 50% reduction in desalination energy
Siemens Water Technologies is using a Sing$ 4 million (US$ 2.9 million) from Singapore’s Environment & Water Industry Development Council (EWI) to develop an innovative seawater desalination technology, which it claims could cut energy consumption by at least 50% compared with existing desalination technologies.