AYALA-LED Manila Water Company, Inc. will infuse additional equity investment in its Singapore unit, the utility said in a disclosure yesterday.   Manila Water said that, in a meeting yesterday, its board of directors “authorized the infusion of additional equity investment in its wholly owned Singapore subsidiary, the Manila Water Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. in the amount of $45,000 for its operational purposes ...

Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies is proud to announce a project win to implement its in-house water metric at Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) thermal power plants. The appointment was made by TNBR, a wholly-owned Research and Development subsidiary company of TNB, which is Malaysia’s national electricity utility company. Veolia will be working in collaboration with TNBR by providing technical expertis ...

Greenpeace has found a huge plume of black water covering an area estimated as 50 Olympic standard swimming pools off the coast in Eastern Shishi City, China, where a discharge pipe of an industrial zone lies under the sea surface. Lab testing found toxic chemicals including hormone disruptor Nonylphenol and heavy metal in the water discharged by factories in the industrial zone. Violation of environmental ...

New Asia Investments' portfolio holding, GD Wasser, announced Monday that the company has completed a new water treatment project in Vietnam.   In a statement Monday, it said that the project involved the upgrade of an existing waste water treatment facility at the Duc Hoa industrial park. The plant is now in the commissioning phase.   The new waste water plant is located at Duc Hoa, Long An provi ...

The $A20 million Cowan Wastewater Scheme, New South Wales, has been launched by Minister for Finance and Services Andrew Constance and Member for Hornsby Matt Kean. The pair joined local resident, Hugh Roberts, at his Cowan property, which will be the first to be connected to the new system. Minister Constance said the scheme has been delivered on budget and about six months ahead of schedule. “This investm ...

Origination point
Geographically speaking, China controls Asia's water wealth (supply). Aside from the North and South Poles, the Great Himalayan Watershed is the world's largest freshwater reserve (that isn't frozen). Located in the Tibetan Plateau (China), the vast majority of Asia's water originates from this repository. From here, glaciers and rainwater eventually flow into river systems.   The pro ...

Water and power generation are inseparable. Fossil fuel-fired power stations require a reliable, consistent stream of treated water to operate effectively. Wastewater streams generated from the combustion of coal need adequate treatment before being discharged. GWI’s new primary research report, Water for Power, focuses on the opportunities for companies to provide water and wastewater treatment solutions i ...

NanoH20, a maker of membranes for seawater desalination, said Monday it will invest $45 million to build a membrane-manufacturing plant in eastern China amid growing strains on China’s freshwater supplies. The privately held U.S. company said the facility will be built in Liyang in Jiangsu province, about 250 kilometers west of Shanghai. It didn’t give details of production capacity but said the plant is ex ...

The 100,000 m3/day Nemmeli desalination plant in Chennai, commissioned in March, has adopted electric actuators from AUMA and is said to be the first desalination scheme in India to make the move. AUMA said it has delivered its Fieldbus technology which fits in with the desalination plant’s distributed control system. Located 35 km south of Chennai, in southeast India, the Nemmeli plant has been delivered f ...

Water management company Metito has been awarded its first project with the Zakum Development Company (ZADCO) in Abu Dhabi worth US $ 5.7mn. The project will see Metito provide emergency containerised water packages to the Zirku Island to produce needed potable water through seawater desalination. The project will utilise the Reverse Osmosis (RO) and ultra-filtration (UF) advanced technology. Furthermore, t ...