Tag: Seawater
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California gives Monterey slant test green light to resume pumping
The California Coastal Commission has given the go-ahead for water supplier, California American Water (CalAm), to resume operation of its test slant well. The well has been idle since June when groundwater fell below a threshold specified in CalAm’s permit conditions that required it to cease working.
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Emirates Singapore venture poised for bond issue
Emirates SembCorp Water and Power – the joint venture, behind the Fujairah 1 independent water and power plant - is considering issuing a project bond to refinance its debt.
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RWL consortium wins Baja California desalination deal
Mid market water treatment firm, RWL Water, in a consortium with Mexican partners, Libra Ingenieros and RJ Ingenieria, has won a contract to build a 22,000 m³/d seawater desalination plant in San Quintín, Baja California.
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Oman plant goes down for third time this year
Water production at Sohar Power Company’s (SPC’s) desalination plant in Oman failed for the third time this year due to “unspecified technical problems”.
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Ghana union calls for review of Teshie-Nungua water purchase deal
Ghana’s Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) has called for a review of a water purchase agreement between supplier, Ghana Water Company (GWC), and Korean firm, BEFESA Desalination Developments Ghana, explaining that the current agreement jeopardized the water supplier.
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Jersey contracts ACWA to upgrade desalination plant
Utility, Jersey Water, has contracted international water and wastewater treatment firm, ACWA Services, to carry a out a £6 million (US$ 9 million) upgrade of the Channel Island’s La Rosière desalination plant in a bid to cut operating costs and meet rising demand.
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San Diego pilot go ahead – marines may hit the beach
San Diego County Water Authority has given the go ahead for a US$ 4 million project to build a two-year pilot to test methods of desalinating seawater into potable water. The deal is part of the authority’s agreement with the US Marine Corps on a means to study how a desalination plant might be built…
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Santa Barbara starts desalination rebuild
Work has started on the US$ 47 million replacement of a 30-year old, virtually unused desalination plant in Santa Barbara, California to make way for a new plant after the city gave the go ahead for a return to desalination as a means to address drought.
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Chennai to get third desalination plant
India’s Tamil Nadu state government has pushed ahead plans to build a third desalination plant at the city of Chennai with investment from German government funding agency, Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW).
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Giant solar desalination project plans US$ 10 million public offering
Shares in what would be California’s first commercial-scale solar desalination plant issued by WaterFX will this year form a US$ 10 million state-registered direct public offering (DPO) in the state.