Tag: Environment
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Biwater wins reuse treatment plant contract in Morocco
UK contractor Biwater has been awarded a turnkey project to design and construct a new wastewater treatment plant in the city of Aourir, a tourist destination close to Agadir on Morocco’s Atlantic coast.
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Public meeting set for San Joaquin water reuse EIS
The US Bureau of Reclamation has set a public scoping meeting for 13 May 2014 as part of the environmental impact statement (EIS) process for the proposed North Valley Regional Recycled Water Program (NVRRWP) in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
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Gulf red-tide early-warning system funding ‘soon’
A new early-warning system in the Gulf for harmful algal blooms (HABs), also known as red tides, using satellite imagery, remote sensing, and modeling could be one result of a conference on HABs held on 16‑17 April 2014 by the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC).
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memsys and Horizon combine to reduce ZLD costs
A pilot trial is due to start in May 2014 of a method to reduce the costs of zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technology at a coal to chemical (CTX) project in northern China.
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August Rocky Mountain reuse workshop set for Golden
This year’s Rocky Mountain Water Reuse Workshop is to be held at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, on 14 August 2014.
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Florida water expert appointed WateReuse director
A former deputy secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection has been appointed as the executive director of the WateReuse Association and the WateReuse Research Foundation.
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Nanchong chemical park to use advanced treatment/reuse
A project to treat the effluent from a chemical industrial park in Nanchong, in north-east Sichuan, China, is involving multiple processes including a reuse system involving ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis. This build-operate-transfer project is the first industrial wastewater treatment project for Berlinwasser China Holdings, a company jointly established by Berlinwasser International AG and Metito Group…
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Sanz and Awerbuch to lead IDA WEX sessions
The International Desalination Association (IDA) has released details of the two desalination sessions it is organizing as a Support Partner for WEX Global – the Water and Energy Exchange in Madrid.
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Solar power installed soon for Nauru desalination plant
Singapore’s Hitachi-Aquatech has awarded a contract to two New Zealand companies for a 131 kWp solar system to power a desalination plant for the Pacific island of Nauru.
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IM&E at desalination intakes studied by WateReuse Assoc
The WateReuse Association has just published a report on The Impingement Mortality and Entrainment (IM&E) Reduction Guidance Document for Existing Seawater Intakes, for which the principal investigator was Timothy W Hogan of Alden Research Laboratory Inc.