Taking into account Chennai’s increasing requirement for drinking water, chief minister J. Jayalalithaa announced setting up of another desalination plant at Nemmeli at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore to augment the city’s water supply by additional 150 million litres. The plant will come up on about 10.50 acres lying vacant adjacent to the existing desalination plant in Nemmeli on East Coast Road. Making a suo mo ...

Last week, state-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd signed a technology partnership with Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Engineering Industries, and expects business opportunities of 1500 crore annually from the pact. The company, through its partnership with Mitsubishi, provides FGD services to power plants, which helps power plants reduce sulphur emissions by about 25%, from 1500 milli gram per cubic me ...

A high-level Environment Ministry panel has recommended coastal regulatory zone (CRZ) clearance for setting up a desalination unit at Koodankulam Nuclear Power plant (KKNPP) in Tamil Nadu. The desalination plant functions on the distillation (Mechanical Vapour Compression) principle. Seawater will be drawn and will be fed to the plant. At KKNPP, the desalination plant consists of four streams each having a ...

Dubai has inaugurated the UAE's largest power and desalination plant in a move to boost power generation and water production in the emirate. The US$272.2 million gas-fired M Station, located in Jebel Ali, will be operated by the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and have a capacity of 2,060MW and 140mn gallons of water a day. Saeed Al Tayer, manageing director of DEWA, said, “We are utilising th ...

Singapore firm Hyflux has signed a memoranda of understanding (MoU) to develop water and environmental projects with the two prefectural governments of Chuxiong and Qujing in Yunnan province, People’s Republic of China. The total combined investment value for the two projects in Qujing and Chuxiong is estimated to be approximately RMB3.2 billion ($515 million). The projects will include the development of w ...

Chennai Metro Water is now adopting a new technology to prevent sewage outflow onto the street. Metro Water officials said that Municipal Administration and Water Supply Minister K. P. Munusamy had asked them to implement a `3.60-crore project so that sewage outflow is minimised in the city. Accordingly, Metro Water would install ultrasonic level detectors in sewage collection wells to automatically pump se ...

Solarcity New Zealand has partnered with Panasonic New Zealand to provide a 131 kilowatt peak solar system to power a desalination plant in the Pacific Island of Nauru, the smallest republic in the world. Solarcity chief executive Andrew Booth said the project was one of the largest his company had worked on so far, but he expected similar projects to become more common. The $4 million project, managed by H ...

Members Thailands Eastern People Network Group have appealed to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra for help to solve water pollution from the disposal of chemical waste into canals. Amid tight security by police, the group went on to submit their complaint letter to Yingluck, who was in the eastern province of Chachoengsao for a mobile cabinet meeting. They told the prime minister that people living in Phan ...

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed a New Material that Promises to cut by up to half the amount of energy used to Purify Wastewater and reduce costs by 30 per cent. The material, Multi-use Titanium Dioxide, is cheap and abundant. It has been scientifically proven to speed up a chemical reaction (photocatalysis) that turns waste water into hydrogen and oxygen under sunlight w ...

The government says that maintaining a stable supply of water against rising energy costs is a key challenge for Singapore. This is down to Singapore Continuing to Turn to Technology to Convert Waste Water into Potable Water - which inevitably requires energy. Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, said this at the launch of the "Singapore Water Story" book on Friday. Othe ...