Tag: Water Scarcity
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Arizona centre opens to address water scarcity
The University of Arizona’s Water and Energy Sustainable Technology (WEST) Centre has opened with a brief to “help enable researchers, public officials, and industry leaders to work together in developing new technologies and more energy sustainable solutions to address water scarcity,” according to founding member and sponsor, Dow Water and Process Solutions.
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Barbados ponders more desalination to tackle water scarcity
Barbados is very likely to soon have another desalination plant according to minister of agriculture, food, fisheries and water resource management, David Estwick.
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Abu Dhabi rejects more desalination despite growing water stress
Environment Policy and Planning at Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has rejected upping desalination as a means to counter growing water scarcity in the emirate, opting instead for conservation and reuse.
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Indonesia moves to avoid water crisis
Indonesia is to develop seawater desalination projects in five islands of its Thousand Islands regency in a bid to head off a drought.
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CONGRESS NEWS Desalination industry embraces conservation as vital ally
Desalination industry leaders this week declared emphatic support for the role of sustainable measures alongside advances in desalination to address growing water scarcity. Opening speakers at the IDA World Congress in San Diego emphasized the importance of conservation and water recycling in meeting an escalating global challenge from water scarcity.
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Oman trial plant eases water scarcity
Trial operation of a new desalination plant near the Oman capital, Muscat, is already alleviating water scarcity there according to the Oman’s Public Authority for Electricity and Water.
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GE reasserts policy proposals for water reuse
Engineering giant, GE, has again urged policymakers to consider four major policy options for water recycling and reuse first unveiled at Water Arabia 2015 in February this year.
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Bahrain energy bid includes desalt
A consortium, including Saudi-owned infrastructure firm ACWA Power, has in its bid for Bahrain’s 390,000 tonne a year waste-to-energy plant the provision of desalinated water.
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CH2M Hill teams with PUB in India
Consultant, CH2M HILL, in partnership with the Singapore Public Utilities Board (PUB) and Singapore Cooperation Enterprise, is providing water management services to the Rajasthan state government in India.
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Norwegian desalination barge venture seeks Israeli expertise
Norwegian company, EnviroNor, is recruiting Israeli expertise to provide the water-processing technology necessary for its project to convert secondhand oil barges into floating desalination and wastewater treatment plants.