Tag: Environment
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Nanomaterials for safer water reuse – Clarke Prize lecturer
Nanomaterials offer opportunities to develop next generation applications for drinking water disinfection and safer water reuse – this is the message that Dr Pedro Alvarez of Rice University will present in his 2012 Clarke Lecture in California on 2 November 2012.
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CH2M Hill reports to USEPA on industrial water use
Water reuse is one of a number of trends for water usage in American industry identified in a report just published by engineering company CH2M Hill for the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA).
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Monterey consultant can’t choose between projects
The Monterey Peninsula Regional Water Board (MPRWA) in California still has to decide between three competing seawater desalination projects for the area after its Technical Advisory Committee accepted on 17 September 2012 a report by consultants Separation Processes Inc of Carlsbad.
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UF/RO desalination pilot project for Dow/SWCC
The Dow Chemical Company and the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) of Saudi Arabia announced on 17 September 2012 a commercial agreement for research collaboration in desalination technologies.
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Stockholm event highlights Gaza desalination urgency
A meeting to present the proposed Gaza Desalination Project was held at the Stockholm Water Week at the end of August 2012.
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Sorek desalination – Low water costs, high environmental profile
The Sorek seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant will be among the world s largest when it is completed in Israel next year. To achieve this capacity while simultaneously delivering the lowest possible water price and a minimized environmental footprint, IDE Technologies incorporated a broad range of technological and financial engineering innovations into the plant s design.…
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Aquatech system reuses Indian auto-plant effluent
A contract to provide a membrane-based effluent recycling system for an automotive manufacturing facility located in North India’s National Capital Region (NCR) has been awarded to Aquatech.
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USEPA reuse guidelines to be previewed in webcast
A preview of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s 2012 Guidelines for Water Reuse will be one of two webcasts presented by the WateReuse Research Federation in September 2012.
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IWA schedules nanotechnology symposium for China
The International Water Association is to hold a regional symposium on Nanotechnology And Water Treatment in China in 2013.
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New clarifier solves Virginia UF membrane problems
Funds from the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) have enabled completion of a new pretreatment system for an ultrafiltration membrane system at the Fairmont Water Filtration Plant in West Virginia.