Tag: Groundwater
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San Diego IPR demonstration project held up
Approval of a contract with Camp Dresser & McKee (CDM) for construction of an indirect potable water-reuse demonstration project in San Diego failed to pass a meeting of the Californian city’s Natural Resources & Culture (NRC) committee on 16 June 2010.
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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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Siemens signs wind desalination MoU in Australia
Siemens Australia has announced a partnership with Windesal, a South Australia company using technology designed in Denmark, to develop clean technologies and wind-powered desalination plants.
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Deshmukh to oversee West Basin desalination and recycling
West Basin Municipal Water District in Los Angeles County, California, has hired former Orange County engineer Shivaji Deshmukh to be its new assistant general manager.
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India’s BARC develops small solar RO and UF units
Domestic and community-level reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination units have been developed for producing safe drinking water by Saly T Panicker at the Desalination Division of India’s Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
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Desalination health and environment book to be published in June
A book on the health and environmental impacts of desalination is to be published by CRC Press in collaboration with the World Health Organization on 25 June 2010.
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Membrane ‘summit’ will precede AMTA conference
The 2nd Osmosis Membrane Summit will precede this year’s annual conference of the American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) in San Diego.
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Agreement at last on desalination supply for Monterey
Tentative agreement has finally been reached by the three agencies involved in developing a regional water supply project for California’s Monterey peninsula, which will include a 10 MGD (37,850 m³/d) desalination facility.
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Siemens wins OC membrane system contract
A hollow-fiber membrane pretreatment system is to be supplied to Orange County’s Groundwater Replenishment (GWR) system expansion under a US$ 14 million contract won by Siemens in California, USA.
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El Paso to explore solar power for desalination plant
The City of El Paso Public Service Board voted on 10 February 2010 to explore the possibility of using solar power at the Kay Bailey Hutchison desalination plant in Texas, USA.