Desalination plants making seawater potable, supply 98.8 percent of Dubai’s water, with the remaining 1.2 percent coming from groundwater sources, the Arabian Water and Power Forum have been told this week. Dubai is the commercial, banking and tourist hub of the United Arab Emirates, the second-biggest Arab world economy after Saudi Arabia. The arid, water-scarce U.A.E. contains about 6 percent of Earth’s p ...

Over the last few years, interest has risen in the use of graphene in desalination systems. Its conductive properties have led to interest as an electrode material in capacitive deionization systems and its ability to be made in sheets that are only one atom thick is of interest to membrane scientists. Scientists at China’s Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics have now announced that graphyne, ...

Pentair LTD. earlier this month were awarded projects to supply equipment and technology to convert sea water to fresh water in desalination facilities in India and Saudi Arabia, as well as Morocco and Oman. Such projects will help deliver more than 500 million liters of clean water daily and meet the growing need for clean water in water-scarce regions. Pentair’s products and technologies including their X ...

Sustainable Water Solutions for the Power Generation Industry The global demand for power continues to increase, especially in fast growing areas of Asia including China, India and the Middle East. The environmental regulations on these power generation companies are also becoming more stringent. Power generation companies need smart, sustainable solutions to meet the specific water quality requirements tha ...

The Mid Murray Council will partner with the Barossa Council to develop a wastewater scheme in Truro. The Barossa Council has agreed to receive wastewater from Truro and treat it at Stockwell. The Mid Murray Council has been developing the wastewater scheme, after receiving $100,000 for concept designs last year. Mid Murray chief executive Russell Peate says the councils are still working through the condit ...

United Envirotech Ltd has signed a RMB286 million 30 year Transfer-Operate-Transfer (TOT) cum Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) agreement with Hong Wei District’s municipal government in Liaoyang City, China. Hong Wei is an important industrial district and United Envirotech has been providing operation and maintenance (O&M) service to its wastewater treatment plant since 2010. The plant now needs to be upgr ...

Energy Recover Inc is to supply its PX Q300 Pressure Exchanger® technology for the Al Ghubrah seawater desalination plant in Oman. EPC contractor International Water Treatment LLC, formed by Cadagua, Wabag and Galfar, chose PX technology to ensure efficient, reliable energy recovery to overcome the challenges of seawater processing in Oman. Oman's first independent water project, set up by the Muscat City D ...

The Tuaspring 318,500 m3/day desalination plant – Singapore’s second major facility – is set to open next week with an innovative Water Purchase Agreement (WPA) in place between utility PUB and private operator, Hyflux. The 25-year WPA will see Hyflux deliver desalinated water – through a Design, Build, Own and Operate (DBOO) model - at a fixed low price of S$0.45 per cubic metre for the first year. Hyflux ...

Energy Recovery Inc. (ERII), whose clean technologies help increase energy savings to the water industry, will work with Acciona SA (ANA) on a 100,000-cubic-meter seawater desalination plant being built in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s Marafiq Power & Water Utility Co. awarded the Alcobendas, Spain-based Acciona a contract to design, build and bring into service the reverse-osmosis plant by the end of 20 ...

Four new desalination research projects have been selected for funding under the fifth funding round announced by the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia. Researchers at the universities of Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales and Edith Cowan University in Western Australia will work with international research partners Stanford University (USA), Dow Water & Process Solutions and ...