Tag: Seawater
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Modern Water desalination trial in Oman extended
Modern Water plc announced on 23 June 2010 that it had agreed an extension to the trial of its desalination plant with the Omani Public Authority for Electricity & Water. Modern Water has agreed a tariff to continue to provide water to the local community for a further six-month term.
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Water authority seeks to buy Carlsbad desalination water
The San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) in California voted on 24 June 2010 to work on a contract with Poseidon Resources to purchase water from Poseidon’s Carlsbad Desalination Project.
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Sorek desalination plant will reach 300 million m³/year
Israel’s government on 20 June 2010 approved construction of the Sorek desalination plant, which could end up as one of the largest in the world.
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Coquina Coast desalination agreement revised
An amended and restated memorandum of agreement relating to the proposed Coquina Coast Seawater Desalination Project in Florida, USA, was agreed by Palm Coast city council, the project leader, on 15 June 2010.
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UF modules ordered for UAE steelworks’ RO pretreatment
Ultrafiltration modules from Germany’s inge watertechnologies AG have been ordered for a 80,000 m³/d seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant at the Emirates Steel Industries steelworks in Mussafah, UAE.
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‘Finalisation’ works begin on Gold Coast desalination plant
Queensland’s Tugun desalination plant, on Australia’s Gold Coast, temporarily stopped producing water on 4 June 2010 to allow improvement works to occur.
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Shuqaiq IWPP desalination plant in production
The Shuqaiq Independent Water & Power Project in Saudi Arabia began production at the end of May 2010.
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Flowserve valves for Perth 2 desalination plant
Flowserve Corporation announced on 3 June 2010 that it had received an order for plug valves for the Southern Seawater Desalination Plant in Western Australia. The order was booked in the fourth quarter of 2009.
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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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Caribbean successes for Seven Seas Water
The US Virgin Islands Water & Power Authority (WAPA) voted on 24 May 2010 to outsource all its desalination water supply to Seven Seas Water Corporation in a move intended to cut its water production costs in half.