Tag: Seawater
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Idle Sydney desalination plant draws flak on cost
A seawater desalination plant constructed following the Australian drought in the mid 2000s has drawn renewed sharp Green party criticism as it emerged recently that it was costing taxpayers more than A$ 0.5 million (US$ 470,000) a day to lie idle.
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Indian PM pledges to settle Gujarat desalination project issues
India’s prime minister Narendra Modi has pledged, during a current visit to Japan, to resolve outstanding issues with a 336Ml/d seawater desalination project underway in South Gujarat and led by a Singaporean and Japanese consortium.
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Dithering over desalination threat to Western US
Indecision over desalination and water reuse projects will hit western US water supplies in the short term an analyst with market researcher Frost and Sullivan has warned.
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Comparing Desalination and Recycling for Water Supply Augmentation
The quest to secure new and durable supplies of potable water is being pursued in a growing number of regions of the world as existing supplies diminish and populations grow. The authors describe here a means to appraise options that accounts for all of the chief factors in any locality that might influence a decision…
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Spain’s Inexa to build Arab shipyard desalination plant
Bahrain’s Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard company (Asry) has awarded a US$ 8.6 million contract to Gulf Marketing House for the completion and upgrading of a reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant at Asry’s yard in the Bahrain capital, Manama. Under the build-operate-transfer deal Spanish engineering firm, Inexa, will construct the plant.
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Venezuela’s largest desalination plant to start this year
Venezuela state-owned oil firm PDVSA expects by the end of the year to start operating a US$ 200 million seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant to provide water for oil refineries on the Paraguaná peninsula and drinking water for local communities.
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Nine desalination studies bag US$ 1.4 million funding
Nine research projects and pilot studies will share US$1.4 million in funding under a desalination and water purification research programme set up by the US Bureau of Reclamation.
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CalAm awaits result of US$ 1 million fund bid
California American Water (CalAm) is awaiting the results of its application for US$ 1 million in funding for subsurface intake testing for its proposed Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project under the Department of Water Resources Proposition 50 desalination grants programme.
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Chinese firms form desalination plant joint venture
Water technology firm Beijing Origin Water and Chinese state-owned a water supplier Qingdao Water Group have established the Qingdao Water Origin Science Development joint venture (JV) to build a 100,000 m³/d seawater reverse osmosis plant in the northeastern Chinese province of Qingdao.
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Acciona wins Italian jobs
Spanish infrastructure company Acciona has won a contract to supply potable water through seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination on the Italian islands of Pantelleria, Linosa and Lampedusa.