Tag: USA
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Furukawa and Glater enter AMTA Hall of Fame
Two very popular admissions to the American Membrane Technology’s Hall of Fame were announced at the association’s 2009 conference and exhibition in Austin, Texas, on 15 July 2009.
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UCLA’s mobile desalination test successful
Field trials during April and May 2009 of a small modular membrane-based water supply system by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have proved that the plant can be used to test brackish water or seawater for use in a full-scale desalination plant.
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Biwater finishes first half of Changi performance tests
The first half of the Sembcorp Changi NEWater Plant (SCNP) in Singapore completed performance tests on 14 July, contractor Biwater AEWT told D&WR. No date has been set for plant commissioning, says Biwater.
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Desalination “part of Reclamation’s toolkit”, AMTA told
Commissioner of the US Bureau of Reclamation Mike Connor believes “desalination has to be part of the toolkit” that the bureau uses to address the issue of shrinking water resources in the western United States.
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Pump Engineering promotes Reau to international sales
Pump Engineering International, the US manufacturer of energy-recovery equipment for desalination announced on 10 July 2009 the promotion of Lindsay Reau as PEI’s international sales manager.
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Desalination designers need to note new salinity equation
Experts attending the 25th assembly of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in Paris on 24 June 2009 recommended that the entire oceanographic community adopt the Thermodynamic Equation of Seawater and the use of Absolute Salinity.
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Marin County poll shows support for desalination
Opinion poll results released on 9 July 2009 by Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD) in California, USA, showed 58% of consumers would support a desalination option in a multi-pronged approach to the district’s future water supply. This rose to 68% when more information was provided.
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San Diego wastewater reuse demonstration to continue
San Diego City Council voted on 7 July 2009 to continue a $12 million wastewater indirect potable reuse demonstration project which would take purified sewage water from the North City Water Reclamation Plant and pump it into the San Vincente Reservoir to augment drinking water supplies.
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Salt stretching can have effect for desalination
Salt can be stretched. That is the unexpected discovery made by researchers at the US government’s Sandia Laboratory reported in the lab’s May Nano Letters (NW Moore et al, Nano Letters, 2009. DOI:10.1021/nl9004805).
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Singapore’s NEWater reused wastewater passes latest test
The reclaimed wastewater from Singapore’s NEWater plants passed its 12th bi-annual drinking-water test by an independent international audit panel with flying colours during the country’s Water Week.