Tag: Seawater
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Former Baja California project partners in legal spat
A giant seawater desalination facility proposed for Baja California, is currently mired in a legal wrangle between former partners in the venture according to a report in local newspaper, The San Diego Union-Tribune. Were it to go ahead the 400 Ml/d Rosarito Beach plant would topple the recently opened Carlsbad plant from its position as…
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RWL-led Mexico seawater desalination project starts construction
A consortium of RWL Water Group and Mexico’s, Libra Ingenieros Civiles and RJ Ingenieria has begun construction of 22,000 m3/d reverse osmosis (RO) seawater desalination plant in Mexico’s Baja California.
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Sacyr-led group wins Oman deal
A consortium led by Sacyr subsidiary Valoriza Agua has won a US$ 1.2 billion, design, construction, operation and maintenance deal for a 250,000m³/d reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant in Sohar on Oman’s Batinah coast.
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Study shows saline groundwater beats seawater
Researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have found that water from saline groundwater coastal aquifers is a better raw source than seawater for reverse osmosis (RO) desalination owing to the groundwater’s lower membrane fouling and pre- treatment costs.
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Dow Saudi factory ships first elements
Dow Water & Process Solutions’ (DW&PS) has made its first shipment of its Filmtech reverse osmosis (RO) elements from its new Jubail Operations manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia.
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Mississippi researchers win funding for low-temperature desalination
Mississippi State University (MSU), is to use US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding to work on a low-cost desalination process.
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Antigua seawater desalination plant poised for start
West Indies island, Antigua is currently testing a reverse osmosis seawater desalination facility which could come on stream in March.
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South African desalination project comes under press fire
Water supplier for South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, Umgeni Water, is considering a proposal to build a seawater desalination plant on the Illovo River within the next five years to cope with growing demand in its Upper South Coast region.
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Orange County reaffirms backing for Huntingdon plant
California’s Orange County board of supervisors has reaffirmed its support for a proposed US$ 1 billion desalination plant at Huntington Beach despite a forecast fall in anticipated water demand growth.
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St Kitts and Nevis ponders desalination
Caribbean dual-island state, St Kitts and Nevis’ minister of public infrastructure, Ian Liburd has revealed that the government is considering seawater desalination as one of two options for tackling water shortages on the islands that have led recently to rationing.