Tag: Public Opinion
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Coquina Coast desalination team seeks public input
Community input on siting criteria to evaluate potential locations for the proposed Coquina Coast Seawater Desalination plant in Florida, USA, is being sought by the project team.
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More desalination and reuse potential in Western Australia
Western Australia’s Water Corporation is considering up to three seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plants along the southern coast of its area, known as Lower Great Southern, as part of a potential portfolio of water resources for the next 30 years.
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Santa Cruz extends consultant’s role in desalination studies
The Santa Cruz City Council voted on 23 February 2011 to approve a US$ 580,000 contract extension for consultants Kennedy/Jenks to continue engineering studies and conducting public outreach for the Californian city’s proposed seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant.
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New thinking required to overcome potential water-reuse barriers
From October 2009 through June 2010, Black & Veatch conducted a series of six high-level roundtable discussions around the globe that brought together about 75 industry thought leaders to review the barriers to water reuse and to explore the solutions and processes needed for overcoming them. Overall, participants in the six roundtable discussions agreed that…
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Marin board winning desalination vote
All four members of the Marin Municipal Water District board who were up for election appear to have been returned by voters, leaving the California county’s cautious push towards desalination intact. A small proportion of votes have still to be counted.
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Australian public lack desalination and reuse info says survey
A quarter of all Australians are “not at all informed” about water reuse or desalination, according to a national survey carried out by the Australian Water Association.
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Virtual tour online for Bundamba AWT
The multi award-winning Bundamba Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant in Queensland, Australia, which is already featured in a video available from Koch Membrane Systems, now has its own online virtual tour.
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B&V puts forward four water-reuse recommendations
Four key recommendations have been put forward by Dan McCarthy, president and CEO of Black & Veatch’s global water business, for overcoming global barriers to reuse of water as part of an integrated water industry portfolio.
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Marin voters could decide desalination future
Marin Municipal Water District in California will have to seek the permission of consumers to proceed any further with its investigations into the possibility of desalination, if a ballot later this year is successful.
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Peruvian mine desalination ‘viable’ says Southern Copper
The construction of a desalination plant for Southern Copper’s US$ 1 billion Tia Maria copper mine, in the Islay province of Arequipa in Peru, is “a viable option”, according to the company’s executive president Oscar Gonzales, quoted by Reuters on 24 May 2010.