Tag: Research
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Membrane market will be US$ 2.8 billion by 2020, says report
The total market for membrane-based water treatment will grow from US$ 1.5 billion in 2009 to US$ 2.8 billion in 2020, according to a new report from Lux Research.
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Water research hub launched in South Australia
A new Aus$ 50 million (US$ 41 million) water research institute will be established in South Australia to help secure and manage the state’s water supply.
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US government funding desalination research
Funding for research and laboratory studies, pilot-scale projects and demonstration projects in desalination and water purification is to be made available by the US federal Bureau of Reclamation.
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Micropollutants web database launched in Texas
The Texas Tech University Center for Water Law and Policy Center has launched the Micropollutants Clearinghouse (www.micropollutants.org), a website that provides an online, publically accessible, research resource on the legal, regulatory, institutional, policy and related scientific aspects of micropollutants in freshwater systems.
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WRF becomes WRRF
The WateReuse Foundation announced a change of name to the WateReuse Research Foundation at its research and desalination conference in Tampa, Florida, USA on 24 May 2010
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Clemson University desalination collaboration signed
Water Enabled Technologies LLC (WET) of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate in a joint research effort to develop existing and future products in the field of water desalination.
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EU funds Dutch innovative wastewater MBR project
The European Union has given a € 3.4 million grant to a Dutch water board and membrane supplier Norit X-Flow for development of an innovative concept for municipal wastewater treatment.
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NanoH2O gets US Navy grant for shipboard desalination research
A US$ 400,000 grant has been awarded by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) to desalination membrane developer NanoH2O for evaluation of its high-flux membranes for shipboard desalination system.
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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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IDA announces nine new Gulf task force members
The importance now being accorded to the environment by the desalination industry was emphasized on 22 April 2010 when the International Desalination Association (IDA) announced the addition of nine distinguished scientists to its Gulf regional task force and an environmental symposium in Bahrain in December 2010.