Tag: Seawater
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Saudi and South Korea sign desalination deal
Saudi Arabia and South Korea have signed a water desalination agreement and a memorandum of understanding for technology transference to Saudi.
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Norwegian desalination barge venture seeks Israeli expertise
Norwegian company, EnviroNor, is recruiting Israeli expertise to provide the water-processing technology necessary for its project to convert secondhand oil barges into floating desalination and wastewater treatment plants.
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Chilean mining firm strikes desalination deal with water protesters
Chilean copper mining company, Antofagasta, has struck a deal with demonstrators from the town of Salamanca in the Choapa River Valley who had been blocking access to its Los Pelambres mine in Chile, in protest against the mine’s consumption of water amid severe water scarcity in the region.
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Abengoa wins contract for Morocco desalination plant
Morocco’s National Power and Drinking Water Office (ONEE) has contracted Spanish desalination company, Abengoa, to construct a 100,000 m³/d plant, some 45 km from the city of Agadir.
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Cape Town ponders giant desalination project as resources dwindle
Cape Town, South Africa is nearing completion of its feasibility study for a 450 Ml/d desalination plant that could be built near Koeberg on South Africa’s west coast within the next 10 years at a cost of some R14.9 billion (US$ 1.23 billion).
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First stage of Gaza desalination project completed
The European Union and UNICEF have marked the completion of the first component of their joint project with Palestine’s water utilities to construct a Euro 10 million (US$ 11.2 million) desalination plant which will provide over 75,000 Palestinians with drinking water in Gaza.
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Israel aids Pacific island with mobile desalinator
Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs is supplying a truck-mounted desalination facility to the Marshall islands in the Pacific ocean to help tackle the islands’ severe water shortage.
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Launch of Teshie-Nungua desalination project postponed
Ghana’s government has postponed the commissioning of the Teshie-Nungua desalination water project.
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Oman calls for tenders to build its largest desalination plant
Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) has opened pre-qualification for the selection of a private developer to build Oman’s biggest independent water desalination project with a capacity of 531,000 m³/d.
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IDE claims production record at Ashkelon
Water treatment firm, IDE Technologies, has claimed that its seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant at Ashkelon, Israel, has reached a world record with 1 billion m³ of potable water produced since the start of its operation in 2005.