The amount of water consumption on the single day of July 30 reached 2.94 million cubic meters in urban Beijing, the highest recorded in the past century, The Beijing News reports. As a megacity that has continuously suffered from rainfall shortage since 1999, Beijing has no more than 100 cubic meters of water for each of its 20 million inhabitants a year, only one tenth of the national average, notes Dai Y ...

A subsidiary of Hyflux has secured an agreement to develop a project in China’s Sichuan province. The Hejiang Fobao Yulanshan Mountain Wetlands project is expected to become a world-class ecological and environmentally-friendly development comprising residential, recreational, commercial and tourism components, media reports said. The agreement is valid for six months and was signed with Sichuan Hengxin Wei ...

A seawater desalination equipment production line designed by Qingdao Hua Xuan Water Company was recently granted 7.8 million yuan ($1.3 million) in government funding. The project is China's first seawater desalination equipment assembly line. Upon completion in 2015, the project will help reduce the country's dependence on exported osmosis membranes, a tool for seawater desalination. Seawater desalination ...

Xylem has won a contract to provide a Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) pretreatment system to help ensure an uninterrupted potable water supply to Abu Dhabi Emirate and the east coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The source water in the Gulf of Oman is subject to harmful algal blooms (HABs) sometimes termed ‘red-tides’; large concentrations of potentially toxic aquatic microorganisms. Xylem’s Leopold Cla ...

Authors of a new study published in Nature Communications reported that membrane filtration using plasma-modified ultralong carbon nanotubes could be used in rechargeable, point-of-use potable water purification devices with superior desalination, disinfection, and filtration properties. Their paper was published online Aug. 13. The researchers include Associate Professor Hui Ying Yang from Singapore Univer ...

Red tides are toxic to both coral reefs and desalination plants in the Arabian/Persian Gulf,  so Masdar Institute has teamed up with government-backed Bayanat for Mapping and Surveying Services to predict and protect against harmful algae blooms. Masdar’s research wing is less popular than its world-changing renewable energy initiatives, but they’re the first government-backed organization to dig deeply for ...

The strategic water storage project in Jeddah will be launched in the second quarter of 2014, said the National Water Company (NWC). The project is the first of its kind in the city to solve the problem of the increasing demand for water. NWC aims to find radical solutions to the challenges facing the water sector and the environmental treatment in general. Louay Al-Musalam, CEO of the company, said during ...

Two solar-powered sea-water desalination plants will be built on Ambae Island and Aniwa Island in Vanuatu to supply fresh water to 11,000 people. The Vanuatu government has signed a US$4 million financing agreement with the Pacific Environment Community, funded by the Japanese government. The acting director for Vanuatu’s Department of Energy, Leo Moli, says both islands have had a lack of fresh water for y ...

IDE Technologies is to install its Progreen™ desalination system - the fourth installation worldwide - at a five‑star island resort on Australia's Great Barrier Reef to replace an existing thermal desalination plant. The company announced on 6 August 2013 that Mulpha Australia, the owner of Hayman Island resort in Queensland, had selected IDE to provide high‑quality desalinated water to the island resort. M ...

The Saudi government  has set aside around $7 billion to spend on water sector-related projects this year, and this is expected to go up as more projects are in pipeline. Desalination and wastewater treatment projects specially , Kuwait Financial Centre (Markaz) said in its report on Saudi water sector. The report noted that Saudi Ministry of Water and Electricity has already pointed out that around $133 bi ...