Tag: Environment
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Siemens working on MBR system and low-energy desalination
Siemens may launch a new membrane bioreactor (MBR) based wastewater treatment and reuse system in 2011. It will also be delivering a demonstration low-energy desalination unit to Singapore’s Environment & Water Industry Development Council (EWI) by the end of the year.
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Giant solar-cell factory to have HERO water purification
The largest silicon solar manufacturing factory in the world is to use a high-efficiency reverse- osmosis (HERO) ultra-pure water treatment system supplied by GE. SunPower Corp selected GE to supply the new SunPower-AUO joint-venture solar-cell fabrication plant in Malaysia.
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USEPA tightens monitoring rule for TC in drinking water
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on 17 June 2010 that it is proposing to revise the 1989 Total Coliform Rule to incorporate improvements recommended by a federal advisory committee.
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Schlumberger partners EAD in Abu Dhabi aquifer-recharge symposium
Schlumberger Water Services today announced that it is partnering the Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi to organize the 7th International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge (ISMAR7), which will be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on 9-13 October 2010.
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GE signs up for Indian industry wastewater reuse partnership
GE and Ramky Enviro Engineers, the Indian environment and waste management organization, have signed emergency water and industrial wastewater treatment agreements specifically designed to address India’s industrial wastewater treatment and recycling needs.
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Marin voters could decide desalination future
Marin Municipal Water District in California will have to seek the permission of consumers to proceed any further with its investigations into the possibility of desalination, if a ballot later this year is successful.
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Met-Pro Pump Group rebranded
The Met-Pro Pump Group, which includes the Fybroc® division, is to be rebranded as Met-Pro Global Pump Solutions™.
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Peruvian mine desalination ‘viable’ says Southern Copper
The construction of a desalination plant for Southern Copper’s US$ 1 billion Tia Maria copper mine, in the Islay province of Arequipa in Peru, is “a viable option”, according to the company’s executive president Oscar Gonzales, quoted by Reuters on 24 May 2010.
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Saudis in talks about Yemen desalination project
The chairman of Saudi water and power company ACWA Power International, Mohammad Abunayyan, was received by Yemen’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, on 23 May 2010 for talks about the second Mocha seawater desalination project.
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CCC to rule on Cambria desalination plant studies
California Coastal Commission (CCC) staff have advised the commission at its meeting this week to agree to a US Army Corps of Engineers proposal to test a beach in the Cambria region, near San Luis Obispo, for use as beach wells for a desalination plant.