Tag: Environment
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IDA 2015 World Congress draws 1,700 delegates
More than 1,700 delegates from 63 countries attended the International Desalination Association’s (IDA’s) 2015 World Congress held in San Diego recently according to the association’s key metrics published this week. Awards for papers and presentations topped US$ 30,000.
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Home desalination market to top US$ 24 billion by 2020
The market for domestic countertop water treatment devices and other point-of-use treatment systems is estimated to reach US$ 24.5 billion by 2020. And the compound annual growth rate for the market is forecast at 9.86%, from 2015 to 2020 according to a report by market analyst, MarketsandMarkets.
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Singapore to build fourth desalination plant
Singapore’s national water agency, PUB, has tendered for the provision of consultancy services for a desalination plant in Marina East – the country’s fourth.
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Seven groups bid for giant Oman scheme
Seven multinational company-led consortiums have pitched for the Oman’s largest independent water desalination project. The 330 Ml/d scheme will include two sites at Barka and Sohar on Oman’s Batinah coast.
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Nine water purification projects bag US$ 1.49 million in funding
The US Bureau of Reclamation has selected nine projects to receive US$ 1.49 million under its Desalination and Water Purification Research programme.
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IDA awards 2015 fellowship to environmental researcher
The IDA has awarded its prestigious 2014-15 Fellowship to Dr Raed AI Bashitialshaaer, of Lund University, Sweden.
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California district probes impact of possible giant desalination plant
California’s West Basin Municipal Water District board of directors has voted to begin an environmental impact report as part of its research towards the construction of a seawater desalination facility in the South Bay.
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IDA World Congress in California
A pivotal event in the global desalination and water reuse sector will be held at the US industry’s epicentre amid an historic drought when the 2015 IDA World Congress on Desalination and Water Reuse convenes in San Diego, California at the end of August 2015. The “location, theme and timing could not be more appropriate,”…
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Kuwait launches its largest desalination management project
Kuwait University’s faculty of engineering has launched the Gulf state’s largest ever water desalination and management project.
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CH2M reuse promotion drive picks up Stockholm prize
Colorado-based service and engineering company, CH2M, has won the 2015 Stockholm International Water Institute’s (SIWI’s) Stockholm Industry Water Award, for developing and advancing methods to clean water and increasing public acceptance of recycled water.