On 1 May 2013, South Australia's water minister, Ian Hunter, announced that a brackish-water desalination plant to deliver improved water quality to the town of Hawker, in the Flinders Ranges 100km north of Port Augusta, had been approved for construction. A final report to the state House of Assembly on the same day said that the reverse-osmosis plant would provide 500 m³/d with a target salinity of <60 ...

China lacks government support for desalination programs needed for the country's water security, according to Li Linmei, director of the State Oceanic Administration's Institute of Seawater Desalination and Multipurpose Utilization in Tianjin. "The lack of an effective pricing mechanism for desalinated water and support for an operable policy is affecting the development of the country's sea desalination i ...

Looking to add a fifth “national tap” to Singapore’s existing four, national water agency PUB announced yesterday that it was looking to study the possibility of drawing on “naturally occurring aquifers and groundwater” in the area of the Jurong Formation. Aquifers are underground layers of water-bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated materials, such as sand, from which groundwater can be extracted. The P ...

The Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA) and the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) have entered an official agreement to help preserve and develop the country’s water resources. MWA Governor Chareon Passara and EGAT Governor Sutat Patmasiriwat, on Wednesday, singed an MOU on water resources preservation and development, designed to enable both to exchange knowledge and information while ...

A treatment technology company, Microvi Biotechnologies, is partnering with a wet infrastructure firm, MWH Global, to bring its revolutionary water technologies to Australia and the Asia Pacific, according to a press release. Building on a number of commercial projects already operating in Australia, Microvi and MWH are working on projects that deal with the treatment of wastewater removing organic carbon a ...

National water agency PUB is looking into the possibility of groundwater extraction to enhance the long-term sustainability of Singapore's water resources. PUB is calling a tender for hydrogeology consultancy services to study the possibility and potential of tapping naturally occurring aquifers and other underground water sources in an area known as Jurong Formation, which includes Jurong, Clementi, Bukit ...

With the Veeranam water supply being suspended Chennaities are more concerned lot. With summer looming large, the fear of water scarcity has made people to look for alternative arrangements. However metro water officials allayed fear of water scarcity and exuded confidence that that the capital city would be able to avoid the water scarcity as the Krishna water is all set to reach the city by May. The decre ...

Rajendra Singh - the Magsaysay award winning 'waterman' of India -- is on a crusade yet again. On Friday, he announced a Jal Jan Jodo Abhiyan to mobilize the masses against the "flawed water policies", targeting 'water mismanagement in Maharashtra', and the proposed multi-crore water desalination plants in Kunnur (Kerala), Maharashtra, Andhra and Odisha. Singh will start the campaign from Kunnur, Kerala on ...

This is a situation the city has been dreading all along. The Cholavaram reservoir, one of the four main sources of water for Chennai, is almost dry and the water level has hit dead storage. Fearing that whatever water left in the reservoir will be lost to evaporation, officials are using pumps to draw water and store it in the Red Hills reservoir, seven km away. With the monsoon failing badly, water storag ...

The phase one project of the Guantang wastewater treatment plant, which has the capacity to process 40,000 tons of wastewater per day, is expected to go into use this year. The plant, which is located in Liudong New District, is the first wastewater treatment plant in the area. It is expected to be Liuzhou’s best facility for wastewater treatment. The water treated by the plant will reach China’s top-level ...