The civic administration has taken a much-needed step towards making citizens accountable for every drop of water they consume and also to measure its loss through leakages. The civic body has started work on a pilot project to install water meters in 1,200 households in Sahkarnagar and Rajas society at a cost of Rs 3.77 crore. The water metering system will help the civic administration calculate the quant ...

A desalination plant to deliver improved water quality for the town of Hawker in South Australia has been approved for construction. The challenge has been to identify an appropriate desalination solution that is suitable for a remote location that can be delivered efficiently. “SA Water has held extensive discussions with the Flinders Ranges Council about options for improving water quality to the township ...

Xylem Inc., the water company whose pumps helped clean tunnels flooded by Hurricane Sandy, has been awarded a contract from Beijing Drainage Group, a state-owned wastewater utility. Xylem will install 19 pumping stations in downtown Beijing as part of the $2.9 million contract, according to a statement from the White Plains, New York-based company. The pumps will improve water storage capability and prevent ...

Sembcorp Industries has officially opened its US$1 billion Wilayat Mirbat Independent Water and Power Plant in Oman. The ceremony was officiated on Sunday by Oman's Minister of State and Governor of Dhofar, Sayyid Mohammed Sultan Hamoud Al Busaidi, and Singapore's Foreign Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam. The facility consists of a gas-fired power plant that has a total gross capacity of 490 MW and a se ...

A desalination plant to make sea water potable is being planned near Gopalpur in Ganjam district of Odisha. Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) has planned to install a 5-million litre per day (mld) capacity plant to meet the industrial and potable drinking water requirements for its Odisha Sands Complex (OSCOM) at Matikhala near Chhatrapur, according to official sources. The Rs 112.90 crore project is schedu ...

The Building a pipeline in Queenstown New Zeland to transport Cardrona wastewater to Wanaka looks increasingly likely as initial assessments indicate the project is both technically and financially feasible. Queenstown Lakes District Council infrastructure and assets general manager Erik Barnes said the proposal to pipe wastewater out of the Cardrona Valley to the Project Pure treatment station near Wanaka ...

A start-up from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has launched its first overseas water treatment plant in Vietnam. Located at Duc Hoa, at Long An province near Ho Chi Minh City, the newly-built plant is about the size of a five-room HDB flat but has an output of 1 million litres of drinking water daily. The high-tech remote-monitored plant built by NTU's new start-up, De.Mem Pte Ltd, will supply clean ...

The lack of an effective pricing mechanism for water produced by desalination and support for an operable policy is affecting the development of the country's seawater desalination industry, according to Li Linmei, director of the Institute of Seawater Desalination & Multipurpose Utilization in Tianjin, part of the State Oceanic Administration. Reported in China Daily, Linmei said more government suppor ...

A new low-fouling reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination membrane for brackish water from industrial processes that is difficult to treat has been introduced by GE. The AG LF series resists degradation from water containing bacteria, colloids and other materials that foul and shorten membrane element life. GE successfully pilot-tested the new membranes in Asia, where customer experience showed that they required ...

A closed-vessel ultraviolet (UV) disinfection solution, optimized for large-scale wastewater treatment plants, industrial and water reuse applications has been launched by Xylem. The Wedeco LBX 850e system has been fully validated according to the US Environmental Protection Agency's 'UV Disinfection Guidance Manual' and the National Water Research Institute guidelines by Carollo Engineers. While validation ...