Tag: Water Reuse
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California board offers low-interest water‑reuse finance
California’s Water Resources Control Board (WRCB) has approved new low-interest financing terms for water-recycling projects that can be completed within three years of governor Jerry Brown’s drought declaration on 17 January 2014.
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Desalination/reuse pavilion set for IWA congress in Lisbon
The European Desalination Society (EDS) is co-organizing a Desalination & Water Reuse Pavilion with the International Water Association (IWA) at the IWA’s World Water Congress & Exhibition to be held on 21-26 September 2014 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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AMTA/AWWA 2015 membrane conference abstracts invited
The American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) and the American Water Works Association have issued a call for papers for their fourth joint Membrane Technology Conference to be held in Florida in 2015.
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B&V’s Rimer joins board of WateReuse Research Foundation
Alan Rimer, director of water reuse for Black & Veatch, was recently elected to the WateReuse Research Foundation board of directors.
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Can chemical-based desalter become new idol?
A patents-pending chemical desalination process, which will be presented as a Water Technology Idol contestant in Paris in April, claims to reduce concentrations of total dissolved solids (TDS) in excess of 300,000 mgl to less than 150 mg/l.
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Wichita Falls set to start up DPR plant in May
Direct potable reuse of wastewater could be making its debut in Texas, USA, in early May 2014, as testing of water produced by the Temporary Water Reuse Project at the City of Wichita Falls continues to show the water is safe to drink.
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IDA Desalination Academy postpones next session
The next session of the IDA Desalination Academy, which was to be held by the International Desalination Association in Santa Margherita,Italy,at the end of March, has been postponed.
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Ceramic MBR + UASB water reuse plant opens in Singapore
Singapore’s first ceramic membrane bioreactor (MBR) plant coupled with an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) was opened on 7 March 2014 to treat and recycle industrial used water.
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SEDA workshop to look at membrane pilot testing
The Southeast Desalination Association (SEDA) is to hold a workshop in Florida in April on Pilot Testing of Integrated Membrane Systems.
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Asian agricultural water-reuse risk ‘exceeds WHO limits’
Australian researchers have found that wastewater used to irrigate vegetable plots in Asian countries poses health risks that may exceed World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.