Tag: Middle East
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Veolia tops targets in Masdar desalination pilot programme
Interim findings by engineering giant, Veolia, from trials designed to up efficiency and develop renewable energy-driven desalination have already outstripped energy reduction targets the company has reported.
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South Africa’s Cape ponders desalination as water crisis grips
The provincial government of South Africa’s Western Cape is looking to water reclamation and seawater desalination as it considers its options for securing water amid a serious crisis.
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LG Chem to supply eight desalination projects
LG Chem, has signed an US$ 8 million deal to supply reverse osmosis (RO) filters for eight seawater desalination projects in five nations from its newly constructed plant at Cheongju in South Korea’s North Chungcheong province.
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Anlayst forecasts desalination to double in under five years
Global desalination revenues will more than double to top US$ 19 million by 2019 reflecting a similar surge in the numbers of facilities according to a report by market analyst, Frost & Sullivan.
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Energy Recovery announces deal duo
Industrial fluid pressure technology company, Energy Recovery, has announced its second US$ 1.8 million deal in recent weeks at sites in the Middle East and North Africa region. The latest win to supply its PX Pressure Exchanger system was for a 68 Ml/d desalination plant at an undisclosed site in the Middle East. It closed…
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Israel to join top ten water stressed by 2040
The US-based World Resources Institute has forecast that Israel will be among the world’s ten most water stressed regions by 2040. Almost half of those regions will be in the Middle East according to recent report by the institute.
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Seven groups bid for giant Oman scheme
Seven multinational company-led consortiums have pitched for the Oman’s largest independent water desalination project. The 330 Ml/d scheme will include two sites at Barka and Sohar on Oman’s Batinah coast.
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New IDA board elected
The International Desalination Association (IDA) has elected its 2015-2017 board of directors.
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STW and Sunstone join to market zero discharge technology
Water management firm, STW Water Process and Technologies, has expanded its role in its exclusive agreement with Sunstone Water Group to commercialize Sunstone’s patented wastewater effluent treatment technology to provide direct potable reuse (DPR) in municipal markets.
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Hyflux first half revenue 90% municipal
Singapore, desalination group, Hyflux, generated more than 90% of its revenue for the six months to 30 June 2015 in municipal markets with almost a half of its sales in its home market and more than a third in China according to its first half 2015 report. Group profit after tax and minority interests was…