Three deals in the last week marked a high point of activity in the secondary market for Chinese water and wastewater treatment plants. On 2nd July, Beijing Enterprises Water Group (BEWG) announced it had agreed to acquire 60% of Beijing Construction Engineering Group’s Environmental Development Company subsidiary. The RMB270 million ($43.6 million) purchase will bring a portfolio of 26 wastewater treatment ...

Veolia Environnement, Europe’s biggest water company, won a contract to build a desalination plant in Saudi Arabia that will supply a petrochemicals factory. The design and construction will generate $310 million in revenue, and operations will deliver $92 million over 10 years, the Paris-based company said today in a statement. The order, awarded by Saudi utility Marafiq, may be extended by 20 years. Saudi ...

The government has given the green signal to the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) to install clear water meters with automatic meter reading (AMR) and GSM technology for 1,318 bulk consumers. The government on Saturday issued a GO to HMWSSB managing director to take up the implementation of the Rs 12.58 crore-project to install clear water meters to bulk consumers. Chetas Cont ...

Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corp. plans to increase production of drinking water in the Islamic holy city of Mecca by 29 percent to a record 670,000 cubic meters a day, al-Madina reported, citing Abdulrahman Al-Ibrahim, the company’s governor. The state-run company said earlier this month that the city of Jeddah, the kingdom’s second-biggest city, is being supplied with 1.2 million cubic meters a ...

Melbourne households could see the ''water use'' component of their water bills increase to encourage water wallies to save more water, under a new strategy released by the state government on Monday. As part of the strategy, launched by Water Minister Peter Walsh, households would also be given more flexible pricing options to suit their circumstances. Melbourne's Water Future draft plan aims to save Victo ...

Sembcorp Industries on Saturday started the $200 million expansion of a water-desalination plant in the United Arab Emirates that it already currently operates together with the government-owned utilities of Abu Dhabi. The expansion of the Fujairah 1 Independent Water and Power Plant (IWPP) will add 30 million imperial gallons per day of desalination capacity at the facility by the first half of 2015, the S ...

The new issue of Power Insider Asia is out now! And it has a brand new look! This issue focuses on China and Thailand and has a fantastically fresh new image. With a fascinating focus on water treatment, highlights  include exclusive interviews with EGAT, PUB and the W.O.G Group, as well as features on the importance of metering systems, engineering consultants, and the Water Hammer phenomenon, and expert c ...

Mr. Imad Makhzoumi Executive Vice President and member of the board of Future Pipe Industries (FPI), a leading global provider of fiberglass pipe system, was recently invited by KPMG and Global Pipe Australia to be the guest speaker in a reception held in Melbourne, Australia. At this exclusive event Mr. Makhzoumi addressed an audience of around 50 senior executives from the Energy, Water and Financial sect ...

Melbourne’s low-income households will be hardest hit by water price hikes of up to $222, the state's peak welfare body says. Water bills across Melbourne will rise an average 22.4 per cent, plus inflation, from Monday, mostly to cover the cost of Victoria's desalination plant. The increase, however, is less than original proposals from water retailers, who wanted increases of between $269 and $355. The Vic ...

Residents have had a sneaking suspicion about it for a while, but it's now official: Metrowater has been supplying only about 75% of the water it says it distributes to the city for the last month. For the first time since a failed monsoon triggered a water crisis, Metrowater officials-who have been maintaining that the usual 831 million litres of water a day was being supplied to the city-admitted that the ...