Tag: Environment
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Desalination course just misses quake
Earth tremors felt during the European Desalination Society’s fouling and scaling course in L’Aquila, Italy, last week, were obviously precursors of the major earthquake that struck the town at 03:30 on 6 April causing over 190 deaths.
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Australian govt conditionally approves Melbourne desalination plant
The seawater desalination plant which will supply up to 150 million m³/year of drinking water for Melbourne was given conditional approval by Australia’s environment minister Peter Garrett on 20 March 2009.
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Ionizable hydrophobes behind new IBM desalination membrane
US computer giant IBM, Tokyo-based Central Glass and the King Abdul Aziz City for Science & Technology (KACST) unveiled a novel desalination membrane technology at the World Water Forum in Turkey on 16 March 2009.
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Final go-ahead for Adelaide desalination plant
Adelaide’s 150,000 m³/d desalination plant was given the final go-ahead on 26 February 2009 by the South Australia state government.
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Amy appointed director of KAUST desalination center
The King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has appointed Dr Gary L Amy as director of the Water Desalination Research Center and professor of environmental engineering, starting in June 2009.
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Adelaide size may be doubled as Acciona emerges in front
The consortium led by Spain’s Acciona Agua was announced as preferred bidder for the Adelaide desalination project on 19 February 2009, as Australian media reported that the capacity of the new plant was to be doubled from 150,000 m³/d to 300,000 m³/d.
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World faces water bankruptcy, says Davros report
The world is on edge of water bankruptcy in many places “with no way of paying the debt back.” That is the conclusion of a report published as a result of the World Economic Forum meeting at Davros at the end of January 2009, which warns that “the consequences for regional economic and political stability…
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State budget cuts delay Carlsbad desalination approval
Cuts to the California state budget prevented officials of the San Diego County Regional Water Quality Control Board preparing recommendations regarding the proposed Carlsbad desalination plant for the board to vote on at a meeting on 11 February 2009.
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“Significant” impacts from Monterey desalination says draft report
Whichever of the three desalination-based proposals for future water supply on the Monterey peninsula in California is eventually implemented, there would be “significant and unavoidable” environmental impacts.
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Environment review released for West Australia’s 2nd desalination plant
Western Australia’s Water Corporation released an environmental review of its proposed Southern Seawater Desalination Plant at Binningup on 3 February 2009 following approval by the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts.