Although reverse osmosis (RO) membranes have developed to provide nearly 60% of worldwide desalinated water, there remains a large demand for thermal processes despite predictions the technology use will shrink, an industry expert has said. IDE Technologies CEO and president Avshalom Felber said: “Firstly, people have been talking about thermal desalination disappearing for many years and it hasn’t yet. Whi ...

Atlantium Technologies Ltd., a leader in UV water treatment for municipal and industrial applications, announced today at ACE 2013 that its R-200 system has made water disinfection history by being awarded the prestigious US EPA Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) for achieving 4-log virus credit water disinfection – the only UV disinfection system in the world to achieve this distinction, guarantee ...

The International Finance Corp has stepped up its investment in Chinese water companies and will help them seek opportunities at home and abroad, demonstrating its confidence in China's water sector. Its latest move is providing a $70 million loan to Hong Kong-listed China Everbright International Ltd, a leading investor and operator in environmentally friendly businesses, IFC said last Wednesday in Beijing ...

Water companies in Singapore are attracting big-name investors as they profit from exporting their expertise to China, which plans to spend $850 billion over the next decade to improve its scarce and polluted water supplies. Singapore is a hub for water technology because of its own concerns about water security. With few domestic freshwater resources of its own, the city-state has been trying to reduce its ...

The Water Authority of Fiji in the South Pacific announced last Wednesday (29 May 2013) that four of Fiji's outer islands will now be using Desalination Plants as an alternative water-supply source. The project, costing F$ 2.5 million (US$ 1.34 million), has been funded by the Japanese government under the PALM5 Pacific Environment Community Fund through the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat. The islands ar ...

The Saudi Ministry of Housing last week announced plans to build $247 million USD worth of water and sanitation infrastructure in the Jazan, Najran and Baha regions. The projects include drinking water and sewage pipelines, wastewater pipeline networks, and a wastewater treatment plant. “These infrastructure projects are meant to put an end to housing problems in different parts of the kingdom,” said Housin ...

Construction of the plant is being overseen by the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) and the 10-km-long pipeline is being carried out by the National Water Company. Prominent figures at the launch included Prince Mishal Bin Majed, Governor of Jeddah; Abdullah Al-Hussayen, Minister of Water and Electricity; Abdulrahman Al-Ibrahim, Governor of SWCC; and Luay Musallam, Executive President of the Natio ...

Along with the understandable focus of the government and the public on flood control and drought relief measures, it's important not to neglect another water-related issue that urgently needs addressing, that of the treatment of wastewater. In July of last year Pollution Control Department director-general Wichien Jungrungruang said that nearly half of the country's wastewater-treatment facilities had seri ...

The Hong Kong government has said that its planned 90 million m3/year desalination plant will cost more per unit of water than other plants in the region due to inflation and distribution and customer service costs. The government plans to build a desalination plant in Tseung Kwan O which is expected to have a unit cost of $12/cubic metre – substantially higher than other planned facilities in the region. I ...

Secretary for Development Paul Chan says a planning and investigation study for a desalination plant in Tseung Kwan O will be completed by the end of next year. Speaking to lawmakers today, Mr Chan said the plant will open in 2020 at the earliest. The study scope covers detailed feasibility studies, preliminary design and cost-effectiveness analysis. The proposed plant will have an output capacity of 50 mil ...