Tag: Pakistan
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Asia’s largest reverse osmosis plant begins operation
Asia’s largest reverse osmosis plant, with a capacity to produce 10 Ml/d, has recently been inaugurated in Pakistan’s drought-ridden Sindh province.
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Aeromix to build giant desalination plant for Pakistan port
A 97 MIGD (440,000 m³/d) seawater desalination plant is to be built in Port Qasim, Pakistan, by Aeromix Systems, a subsidiary of RWL Water Group.
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Water scarcity can make nuclear option attractive to some countries
Nuclear power and desalination have been seen as symbiotic technologies for a long time. The combination is viewed as an attractive option for countries that have nuclear capability but which also lack sufficient potable water. The author reviews recent advances in IAEA member states to improve reactors with regard to desalination. He also looks at…
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German companies donate UF treatment equipment to Pakistan
Two German companies that have been aiding the Clean Drinking Water For All (CDWA) initiative to improve Pakistan’s drinking water have donated equipment in the light of the country’s catastrophic flooding.
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Karachi cantonment plans 2 MGD desalination stopgap
Karachi’s Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) is planning to establish a 2 MGD (9,000 m³/d) reverse-osmosis desalination plant to mitigate some of the 7 MGD (32,000 m³/d) water shortage in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA), CBC CEO Muhammad Hayat Mahr told a meeting in the Pakistan capital on 23 June 2010.
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German water companies using UF to cure Pakistan’s water woes
German water manufacturers Siemens and KSB have each ordered 800 ultrafiltration (UF) modules from inge watertechnologies AG for the “Clean Drinking Water for All (CDWA)” project funded by a group of development aid organizations in Pakistan.
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Karachi desalination plant recommissioned
Almost a year after it fell into disrepair, the Defence Housing Authority Cogen Power & Desalination Plant in Karachi, Pakistan, was recommissioned on 27 August 2009.
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Hawkes Bay desalter on the move again
The Hawkes Bay desalination project in Pakistan took a step forward on 15 January 2009, when Sindh chief minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah presided over a meeting regarding the desalination plant for Karachi at the Chief Minister’s House.
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Hawkes Bay plant still awaiting go-ahead
Though it has signed a contract in June with the Karachi Water & Sewerage Board, Norwegian supplier Aqualyng is still waiting for official steps by the Sindh Provincial Government before it can start the 114,000 m³/d Hawkes Bay reverse-osmosis plant which will supply potable water for Karachi.