Tag: Texas
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MIT spinout cracks fracking water waste
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spinout, Gradiant Corporation, is working toward making hydraulic fracturing (fracking) a water-neutral process, by making water reuse more economical. Fracking produces millions of litres of wastewater and much of it is discarded into deep injection wells, and clean water has to be purchased.
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Solar desalination champion teams with university
Louisiana, engineer and solar powered desalination entrepreneur, Hill Kemp, has teamed up with University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP) to market the technology to industrial customers.
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Abilene wastewater overhaul uses GE pretreatment
The city of Abilene, Texas has completed its installation of GE’s LEAPmbr wastewater pretreatment system as part of a major upgrade to the city’s Hamby wastewater treatment plant.
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Texas wastewater plant includes GE pre treatment
The city of Abilene, Texas has completed its installation of GE’s membrane bioreactor technology, the LEAPmbr wastewater treatment system, as part of a major upgrade to the city’s Hamby Wastewater Treatment Plant.
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Texas reuse project nears construction stage
A proposed US$ 2.4 million water reuse project in Olney, Texas has moved closer to the construction phase following a city council environmental review public hearing.
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STW puts zero liquid system on show
STW Water Process and Technologies, this week will hold demonstrations in the Texas state capital, Austin, of a zero liquid discharge (ZLD) thermal water processing technology it licences from Salttech under an exclusive agreement.
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Texas passes bill to deliver water resources
Texas has referred a major bill designed to boost desalination projects in the state to the Senate Agriculture, Water and Rural Affairs Committee.
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Reverse osmosis plant put on hold after rainfall.
After rainfall boosted Lake Palo Pinto in Texas, US to almost 30% capacity, officials at the city of Mineral Wells have elected to delay completion of a reverse osmosis facility for at least 12 months.
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Texas cities ponder desalination as lawmakers seek to remove legal obstacles
Texas cities McAllen and Edinburg are mulling the construction of a desalination plant to service both cities.
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Miami-Dade’s US$ 13 billion plans pull in punters for PPP
Miami-Dade County has become the most attractive public private partnership (PPP) opportunity in the US with players chasing US$ 13 billion in water and wastewater projects according to market analyst Bluefield Research.