Sharing Tamil Nadu’s concern over the poor realisation of water through the 152-km-long Kandaleru-Poondi Canal, Andhra Pradesh on Saturday agreed to take immediate steps for early completion of repair work on the canal. A decision to this effect was taken at the 42 meeting of the inter-State Liaison Committee at Fort St. George on Saturday. Chief Secretaries of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, Sheela Balakris ...

THE preliminary results of a trial, pumping treated wastewater underground into the Gnangara Mound, are encouraging, the State Government says. The three-year trial, which ended on December 31, involved pumping 2.5 billion litres of recycled water into the aquifer at the Beenyup Wastewater Treatment Plant in Craigie. Water Minister Bill Marmion said every one of the more than 70,000 water samples that were ...

KKR & Co LP, one of the largest private equity firms in the world, made a $40 million follow-on equity investment in United Envirotech Ltd, showing great confidence in the huge Chinese water treatment market. KKR is offering S$0.50 ($0.40) for each share of the Singapore-listed recycling and water treatment company, which focuses on the Chinese market. The offer represents an 8.5 percent premium to the ...

South Korean power equipment maker Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. said its Vietnamese unit is shipping its second locally made water desalination plant, one the size of a soccer field, to Saudi Arabia. The three-story, single-piece “plug and play” unit built at Doosan Vina’s complex in Quang Ngai Province in central Vietnam weighs 3,500 tons and when operational will produce about 91 million ...

After Indo-Japanese car major Maruti Suzuki India decided to make Gujarat its next big manufacturing hub in India after Haryana, the ball has been set rolling to develop a country-specific industrial park or cluster near Maruti Suzuki's proposed plant site in Hansalpur. A senior state government official close to the development said, "Around 500 hectares of land has been earmarked for Japan-based companies ...

Making headway on plans to shore up its water supply, Qatar has awarded Mitsubishi Corp. a $260 million contract to build a new desalination plant, officials announced yesterday. With a completion date set for June 2015, the plant, which is being financed by four local banks and managed by Kahramaa, will undergo the expensive process of converting sea water to produce 36 million gallons of fresh water daily ...

The Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board has set the ball rolling for the resettlement of over 1,500 families who reside on Chennai Metrowater’s conduit pipeline. With the State government recently approving two projects at Athipattu near Ambattur to construct 1,472 tenements at a total cost of Rs.118 crore, residents can expect to move to the stilt + 4 apartments by mid-2014. Apart from the economically weaker ...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday emphasized on adoption of state-of- the-art water conservation practices especially in the agricultural sector and treatment of the sewerage water to ensure optimum utilization of the water resources being the scarce and essential commodity for maintaining human life. The President was addressing the inauguration ceremony of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Clean Drinking ...

Taiwan plans to build additional desalination plants in Penghu and Kinmen counties, a move expected to significantly increase freshwater supplies for the outlying areas, according to the ROC Ministry of Economic Affairs. The Penghu facility, which is to be situated in the county capital of Magong City, will be funded by the Water Resources Agency to the tune of NT$800 million (US$27.5 million). Currently un ...

Authorities have formulated a plan to boost the seawater desalination industry as an alternative to quench the country's thirst for water, China's top economic planner said on Wednesday. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said China aims to produce 2.2 million cubic meters of freshwater per day by 2015, compared with 660,000 cubic meters in 2011, according to the 2011-2015 plan, the first ...