Desal Data News

Desalination plant could attract new industries to Moree district

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00

Moree’s river system is set to be a lot more environmentally friendly with the construction of a desalination The Moree Plains Shire Council has been advised that the water from the Moree Hot Artesian Pool Complex will have to cease from…

Sumitomo to join Saudi Arabia in power, water project

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00

Sumitomo Corp., Japan’s third-largest trading company, will join a $6 billion project in Saudi Arabia to construct a power-generation and water-desalination The Saudi Arabian government will own 40 percent of the venture while Sumitomo…

Indian firm bags $20.8 mn desalination project in Oman

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00

Leading Indian water technology specialist VA Tech Wabag has won a contract worth 8 million Omani riyals ($20.8 million) to build a water desalination plant in Oman. The company signed an agreement with Oman’s Rural Areas Electricity Company…

EAC could help produce water

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00

Cooperation with the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) on a mobile desalination unit at Vasiliko, will be discussed by the cabinet on Wednesday, Agriculture Minister Michalis Polynikis said Speaking at a conference on water…

Float aims to save water

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00

Water conservation group Aqua Guardian is coming to the market with a $3.75 million initial public The company believes that it is far cheaper to limit evaporation at existing water storages than it is to make water through recycling and…

Saudi plans water and power projects worth USD 12 billion

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00

Gulf News reported that Saudi Arabia has planned more than USD 12 billion worth of water and power projects that will supply an additional 2.24 million cubic meters of water per day and 2,750 MW of power in the next few Mr. Fehied Al Sharif…

Feedback from Singapore

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00

When Singapore organizes an event, they set a new standard by which all other conference organizers will be measured. By all accounts, last week’s International Water Week moved the bar up another notch. A press release that preceded the event…

Boron limit likely to increase

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00

From the Singapore International Water Week conference, public health expert Joe Cotruvo reports that the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Water Guidelines Committee has recommended that the boron drinking water value be revised to 2.4 mg/L. It is…

Energy costs impact pricing

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00

WDR caught up with Veolia Water Solutions CEO Jean-Michel Herrewyn after his return from Singapore to ask about a news story in which he was quoted as saying that Veolia was tripling desal prices to compensate for lower margins caused by an increase…

Low energy desal study funded

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00

Of the many news stories emanating from last week’s International Water Week conference, one of the most dramatic was the award of S$4 million ($2.93 million) of research funding to Siemens Water Technologies "to develop an innovative seawater…

Bigger, heavier elements easy-to-install

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00

As large-diameter membrane elements are being considered for more projects, questions have been raised about the increased difficulty of handling the larger, heavier units. WDR asked Antonia von Gottberg, Koch Membrane Systems’ technical director…

Carbon nanotube membrane update

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00

Two years ago, WDR reported that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL) had developed a carbon nanotube membrane with pore diameters less than 2 nanometers. Initial experiments focused on demonstrating the membranes’ higher permeability…

ERI shares to be listed on NASDAQ

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00

Energy Recovery’s (ERI) is scheduled to list its shares on the NASDAQ this Wednesday morning under the ticker symbol “ERII”.

Al-Khamis and Arroyo receives IDA Fellowship award

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00

Salah Ibrahim Al-Khamis of Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corp (SWCC) and Jorge Arroyo of Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) have been selected as recipients of the inaugural IDA Fellowship Award. The goal of the award program is to…

UK to cooperate with Jordan on desalination

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) is to be signed at the weekend between Jordan and the UK that would facilitate cooperation in nuclear energy, including for desalination of water. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed the forthcoming…