Tag: Research
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Dutch desalination research backed by American Water
American Water Works Company Inc, the largest investor-owned US water and wastewater utility, announced on 2 October 2009 that it is working in cooperation with Netherlands entities Vitens, RWB Waterservices, University of Twente and WE Consult to launch a project on innovation in desalination technology.
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Dow to establish R&D center at KAUST
The newly opened King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia and the Dow Chemical Co announced on 29 September 2009 a plan to establish the Dow Middle East R&D Center at the university’s Research Park & Innovation Cluster.
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New US Navy RO units ‘will use 65% less energy’
The United States Office of Naval Research (ONR) is planning to build prototype desalination units that will use 65% less energy and be 40% smaller by weight than current Navy reverse-osmosis (RO) units, an ONR release on 23 September 2009 predicted.
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IDA releases more Congress details
More details have been released about the program for the 2009 World Congress of the International Desalination Association (IDA), which will take place during 7-12 November 2009 in Dubai.
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Decentralized water, wastewater, energy links to be studied
Development and evaluation of advanced decentralized drinking-water and wastewater technologies is the objective of a new grant made by the US Environmental Protection Agency to University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering (UN-LCE)’s Durham School of Architectural Engineering & Construction.
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AWWA seeks sustainable water papers
The American Water Works Association announced on 23 September 2009 a call for papers for the 2010 Sustainable Water Management Conference & Exposition in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during 11 – 14 April 2010.
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Australia’s CSIRO demonstrations indirect stormwater reuse
Scientists at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have bottled recycled stormwater as pure drinking water titled “Recharge”, CSIRO announced on 17 September 2009.
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Government funding for Australian ceramic membrane
Australian government funding of Aus$ 70,400 has been granted to University of Queensland (UQ) researchers to develop a low-cost desalination technology through its company Ceramipore Pty Ltd, the university announced on 17 September 2009.
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Chennai venue for InDACON 2010 desalination conference
Next year’s InDACON-APDA conference will be in Chennai on 10-12 March 2010, the Indian Desalination Association (InDA) announced on 16 September 2009.
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WERF guidance on indirect reuse contaminant removal
A new report from the Water Environment Research Foundation in the USA concludes that examining multiple barriers of drinking-water systems can help assure the absence of detectable levels of trace organic compounds in recycled water.