City Council plans to take a closer look at a $24 million project to improve the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant. Councilman Ed Lewis, R-Ward 6, said Tuesday night the city’s share in the proposed project is not specific, and suggested council needs more time to discuss specifics of the plan. Cost of the project is to be shared among Stark County, with some funding provided by the Ohio Water Development A ...

Japan's government says it will spend $470 million to help deal with the repeated radioactive water leaks at the troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Officials say part of the money will be used to build a wall of frozen earth to block surrounding groundwater from mixing with the toxic water being used to cool the plant's damaged reactors. The plant's operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, has ackno ...

Taiwan and China have agreed to provide fresh water from the southeastern Chinese city of Jinjiang to the Taiwan-held outlying county of Kinmen, to solve a looming water shortage that is expected to hurt the county's economic lifeline. The set of islands that make up Kinmen county is much closer to China than Taiwan proper. A delegation of water and county officials, led by county Deputy Magistrate Wu You-q ...

One of the poorest and most remote regions in China is to receive a $200m loan from the Asian Development Bank to improve water management. The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is predominantly a desert territory, characterised by strong winds, low rainfall and a high evaporation rate. Two cities in the region, Kelamayi and Kuitun, receive as little as 100mm of rain each year, and experience sub-zero temper ...

The Pipe Rover project, an Australian first, is a partnership between Western Water and Ballarat’s Central Highlands Water as part of the Intelligent Water Networks Program. The new technology being trialled will allow Western Water to find leaks without having to excavate or switch off customers’ water. A Western Water spokeswoman said, “The Pipe Rover will be able to detect leaks, or test the ‘health’ of ...

In a release, Sembcorp announced the expansion of its water business in China’s Liaoning province with two new wastewater treatment projects in industrial parks in Panjin city. The first plant is to start operations by 2015. The first of the agreements will be a joint venture agreement to build, own and operate a new RMB 117.3 million (approximately S$24.3 million) industrial wastewater treatment plant to s ...

Carnegie Wave Energy's shares are set to continue their recent strong run after it signed a Cooperation Agreement with the Water Corporation of Western Australia to support its wave powered desalination pilot plant. The company's shares have more than doubled in just the past two-months. Water Corporation currently produces 45 billion litres of fresh drinking water a year from its existing seawater desalina ...

Desalination units to meet increased water capacity needs with lowest energy consumption KADIMA, Israel, August 27, 2013 – IDE Technologies Ltd. today announced that a large private sector company has ordered Multi-Effect Distillation (MED) desalination units to increase the capacity of a desalination plant in Asia. Chosen for its reliability, high efficiency and track record of success, IDE’s MED solution ...

Work on the first phase of the King Abdullah Initiative for Solar Water Desalination is almost complete and is expected to be operational by the end of this year, according to a senior energy official. Yousef Al-Yousef, supervisor at the Energy Research Institute at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), told Alsharq newspaper that the plant would have a capacity of 30,000m³ of drinking wat ...

Beijing plans to install water-permeable bricks for free in 60 residential quarters of approximately 200,000 square meters next year, in order to make use of rainwater. Also, remotely monitored water meters will be installed for major water users, Beijing Times reports. Beijing initiated rainwater utilization projects in 2001, constructing 898 projects in urban areas and 1,000 projects in rural areas by the ...