Tag: USA
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Desalination affected by California powerplant ruling
The powerplant with which California’s new 189,000 m³/d Carlsbad seawater reverse-osmosis (SWRO) plant is co-located has been ordered to cease once-through cooling by 2017. The Huntington beach powerplant, site of another proposed desalination plant, has been given until 2020.
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CCC to rule on Cambria desalination plant studies
California Coastal Commission (CCC) staff have advised the commission at its meeting this week to agree to a US Army Corps of Engineers proposal to test a beach in the Cambria region, near San Luis Obispo, for use as beach wells for a desalination plant.
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NanoH2O gets US Navy grant for shipboard desalination research
A US$ 400,000 grant has been awarded by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) to desalination membrane developer NanoH2O for evaluation of its high-flux membranes for shipboard desalination system.
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MoU signed to advance Camp Pendleton desalination plant
A planning agreement providing a framework for progress on a major regional seawater desalination plant at Camp Pendleton in Southern California was signed in April.
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Deshmukh to oversee West Basin desalination and recycling
West Basin Municipal Water District in Los Angeles County, California, has hired former Orange County engineer Shivaji Deshmukh to be its new assistant general manager.
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Yuma desalination plant restarted for pilot run
Representatives from the US Department of the Interior and three municipal water agencies gathered on 28 April 2010 to launch a one-year pilot run of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Yuma Desalting Plant.
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Nalco acquires Res-Kem deionization and RO services
US water treatment company Nalco announced the acquisition of Res-Kem Corporation and General Water Services of Philadelphia on 19 April 2010.
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Australia funds water study for coal-seam gas industry
The Australian government is spending up to Aus$ 3.88 million (US$ 3.61 million) on a water feasibility study for the Queensland coal-seam gas industry.
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Nine projects to be launched by WateReuse Foundation
A project to ensure that the technology used to reclaim wastewater is fit for purpose was one of nine approved by the WateReuse Foundation’s Board of Directors at its meeting on 16 March 2010.
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Polymer brush layer is key to new fouling-resistant membrane
A new class of fouling-resistant reverse-osmosis (RO) membranes has been announced by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) which are claimed to have low mineral-scaling propensity and high permeability.