Tag: Groundwater
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Sweetwater starts US$ 42 million desalination upgrade
Sweetwater Authority has begun its US$ 42 million expansion of the Richard Reynolds Groundwater Desalination facility in Chula Vista.
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RWL consortium wins Baja California desalination deal
Mid market water treatment firm, RWL Water, in a consortium with Mexican partners, Libra Ingenieros and RJ Ingenieria, has won a contract to build a 22,000 m³/d seawater desalination plant in San Quintín, Baja California.
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Santa Barbara forges desalination partnership
Californian city, Santa Barbara, has agreed to discuss inviting Montecito Water District to join its desalination plant project currently under construction. Santa Barbara recently received the regulatory green light for the project.
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IDA 2015 World Congress draws 1,700 delegates
More than 1,700 delegates from 63 countries attended the International Desalination Association’s (IDA’s) 2015 World Congress held in San Diego recently according to the association’s key metrics published this week. Awards for papers and presentations topped US$ 30,000.
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San Antonio first phase desalination set for 2016 finish
The first phase of a groundwater desalination plant in San Antonio is set to be completed next year. The US$ 193 million first phase will produce fresh drinking water at about 50 Ml/d for customers of the San Antonio Water System.
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Aquatech installs Emirates desalination plant
Water and wastewater technology company, Aquatech, has installed a 60 Ml/d seawater reverse osmosis-based desalination plant at Ghalilah, in Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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Cape considers desalination as rationing looms
Cape Town, South Africa is considering investment in desalination and water reuse as part of its intensified focus on measures to conserve water amid fears that rationing is becoming more likely.
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California city ponders desalination revival
California’s city of Morro Bay is poised to apply to the state Coastal Commission to operate continually its currently idle reverse osmosis desalination plant. The city let its operating permit expire in 2000, and the plant – built in 1992 – has not operated since then except for occasional emergency use.
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Water district to canvas opinion on desalination plans
Southern California’s West Basin Municipal Water District plans to start canvasing public comment in autumn on its efforts build an seawater desalination plant in South Bay.
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IDA World Congress in California
A pivotal event in the global desalination and water reuse sector will be held at the US industry’s epicentre amid an historic drought when the 2015 IDA World Congress on Desalination and Water Reuse convenes in San Diego, California at the end of August 2015. The “location, theme and timing could not be more appropriate,”…