Tag: Water Reuse
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WERF seeking proposals for water resource‑recovery
The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) in the USA is issuing requests for proposals (RFPs) for research to further understanding of the recovery of macro-nutrients, energy and water from wastewater.
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Australia’s MAK Water buys Clearmake for expansion
Australian reverse-osmosis desalination manufacturer MAK Industrial Water Systems has acquired Queensland-based Clearmake Water Treatment & Recycling Solutions as part of a national expansion strategy across Australia.
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Escobar appointed as editor-in-chief of IDA journal
Dr Isabel Escobar of the University of Toledo, Ohio, USA, has been appointed by the International Desalination Association (IDA) to succeed Dr Jim Birkett as editor-in-chief of the IDA Journal of Desalination & Water Reuse.
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Alabama institute to research fracking water treatment
Alabama-based Southern Research Institute is to develop, and demonstrate the performance of technologies that will advance shale‑gas hydraulic‑fracturing water treatment in order to produce National Pollution Discharge Elimination System quality water.
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ASTM to develop standard for fracking water quality
The US standards body ASTM International is to develop standards to be used by contract laboratories, water utilities and other requiring or developing methods for hydraulic fracturing in the oil & gas industry.
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Details published of AMTA/SCMA Texas workshop
The American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) has released details of the technology transfer workshop it is holding in Texas in September in conjunction with the South Central Membrane Association.
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WateReuse RFP seeks to advance DPR take‑up
The WateReuse Research Foundation has issued a request for proposals under its Solicited Research Program and Feasibility Studies Program for a communication plan for promoting direct potable reuse (DPR).
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Nuverra/Haliburton accord on produced-water treatment
Nuverra Environmental Solutions Inc, which until mid-May 2013 was known as Heckmann Corporation, announced on 15 July 2013 that it has entered into an agreement with Halliburton to advance the treatment and recycling of produced water to be reused in the hydraulic fracturing process.
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South Africa to focus on desalination and water reuse
Desalination and the reuse of wastewater from municipalities and mining are strongly emphasised in the 2nd National Water Resources Strategy (NWRS2) for South Africa released at the start of July 2013.
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Reuse application for two additions to UV range
Two new additions to the Xylem range of medium-pressure ultraviolet (UV) disinfection systems are said by the manufacturer to be particularly suitable for wastewater reuse, as well as fish-farming and swimming-pool applications.