LIBERTY LAKE, Wash. — March 22, 2013 — Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI), announced today, on World Water Day, it welcomes the United Nations (UN) initiative to declare 2013 as the “International Year of Water Cooperation.” Pressure on resources has never been so high, and all the stakeholders need to work hand in hand for better management of water. As a global technology company, Itron works daily with its custo ...

It was announced on Thursday that Doosan Heavy Industries Vietnam (Doosan Vina) Completed An Order for Three Large Scale Multi-Stage Desalination Plants for Ras Al Khair in Saudi Arabia, which is the world’s largest desalination project to date with a total designed output of 728 million liters of fresh water per day. The entire US$1.46 billion project entailed the design and manufacture of eight gigantic d ...

Beijing Enterprises Water Group Limited has stated their ongoing Aqualyng Caofeidian Seawater Desalination Project, Possesses the required technology for large-scale seawater desalination and can desalt one million tons of seawater every day to supply Beijing's water resources. The Aqualyng Caofeidian Seawater Desalination Project has been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in ...

Perth households will soon be drinking recycled waste water. Western Australia will be the first state to drink recycled water when up to 35 billion litres of treated sewage is pumped into its underground supply each year under a plan to be ticked off by the Barnett Government. Treated sewage has been quietly injected into Perth's aquifers during a trial that ended in December. WaterCorp will advise the Gov ...

The largest U.S. maker of metering devices that save energy and cut waste; Itron Smart Meters Installed in Mumbai Reduced Water Losses by Half. Smart meter use in India’s most populous city eliminated 50 percent of the 700 million liters (150 million gallons) a day of water that’s wasted or leaked by broken pipes, Marcel Regnier, Itron’s chief operating officer for water, said recently from Paris. “The targ ...

The Authority; The Delhi Jal Board, Responsible for Water Management in New Delhi, has Awarded Degrémont a DBO Contract (design, build, operate) to build an urban wastewater treatment plant at Delhi Gate Nalla with a capacity of 70,000 m3 per day. This investment is part of the Yamuna Action Plan II, a bilateral project between the Indian and Japanese governments aimed at rehabilitating the quality of water ...

Shrinking freshwater levels has lead to Chinese Power Plants Becoming Increasingly Compelled to Adopt Water Reuse and Recycling Treatment Solutions and reduce water consumption, thereby leading to the strong growth of the country's water and wastewater management market. Eastern China has so far been the focal point for investments in treatment technology, the growth of the power industry in Central and Sou ...

Water treatment company Xylem has purchased Australian water and wastewater company MultiTrode Pty. Ltd. for about $26 million. Xylem Inc. said Friday that MultiTrode complements its existing business and will help it better meet customers' needs. MultiTrode, a privately held company, has a portfolio that includes pump station controllers and supervisors, level-sensing devices, web-based monitoring services ...

Suez Environment, Europe’s third- largest water company by market value, won 41 million euros ($53 million) of contracts to build and operate water-treatment plants in New Delhi and Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley. Suez’s subsidiary Degremont said today in a statement that the contract in India’s capital, where more than 17 million people reside, was awarded by the Delhi Jal Board to construct and manage ...

PUB has identified 100 more sites in Singapore that could potentially be developed in the ABC Waters Programme. ABC Waters integrates drains, canals and reservoirs with the surrounding environment to create water parks and community spaces. Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said in Parliament three more projects will be completed this year at Sungei Pandan, Sungei Ulu Pandan and G ...