Tag: USA
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Groups appeal Huntington Beach desalination permit
Four environmental groups in California have appealed a decision by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board (WQCB) to grant a permit for the proposed Huntington Beach desalination plant proposed by Poseidon Resources.
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Multinational consortium works on water-splitting prototype
Scientists from Australia, Germany and the USA met in Wollongong in early March to move towards establishment of a global consortium to research effective strategies for water splitting.
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Google reusing municipal effluent for cooling
Information giant Google is reusing municipal wastewater to cool its data centre in Douglas County, Georgia, USA.
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Oasys deal to treat Texas produced water with FO
Oasys Water has struck an agreement with Houston-based Select Energy Services, LLC (SES), a leading provider of engineered water solutions to the oil and gas industry, for exclusive use of its forward osmosis (FO) technology in the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, USA.
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NSF/JWPA developing iodine water filtration protocol
A joint protocol to evaluate the ability of certain water filtration products – such as reverse osmosis – to reduce iodine (including radioactive iodine) from drinking water currently being completed by NSF International and the Japan Water Purification Association (JWPA).
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Sadyt chooses ERI pressure-exchangers for Ashdod
Israel’s giant Ashdod desalination plant is to use PX-Q300 energy-recovery pressure-exchangers supplied by Energy Recovery Inc (ERI) of the USA.
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Fuel cell/EDR hybrid powers its own wastewater treatment
A hybrid device using electrodialysis reversal (EDR) developed at Pennsylvania State University could be used to treat wastewater using the wastewater itself as fuel.
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American Water/Drexel U to research desalination fouling
The WateReuse Research Foundation has provided a grant to American Water Works Company Inc (American Water) for a joint research project with Drexel University, Philadelphia, to measure and reduce biological fouling on membrane filters in desalination applications.
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New San Francisco wastewater reuse project relocated
San Francisco’s Westside Recycled Water Project, which will reuse up to 4 MGD (15,140 m³/d) of secondary effluent, will no longer be built in the city’s historic Golden Gate Park.
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AWWA launches Desalination Community web page
The American Water Works Association (AWWA) announced on 27 February 2012 that it had launched a Desalination Community, a page on its website for networking and exchanging ideas.