Israel's IDE Technologies will help construct and run a $1 billion desalination plant along the coast of southern California to help alleviate the region's water shortage. The facility, expected to begin operations in 2016, will produce 54 million gallons (204,412 cubic meters) of potable water each day, making it the largest sea water desalination plant in the United States, IDE said in a statement on Thur ...

Japanese industrial solutions giant Hitachi will sign a contract with the Gujarat government next month for setting up of a sea water desalination plant in the state that will treat 336,000 tonnes of water every day. To be executed by four partners, the construction of the facility will largely be financed by the Japanese government under Indo-Japan joint investment strategy. "We are going to sign the contr ...

“The Nuclear Desalination Demonstration Plant (NDDP) located at Kalpakkam [off Chennai], Tamil Nadu, is the world’s largest hybrid seawater desalination plant coupled to an existing nuclear power plant,” says Dr. P.K Tewari, Head, Desalination Division, BARC, Mumbai. This desalination facility is coupled to the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS), and deploys both multi-stage flash (MSF) evaporation and reve ...

Suez Environnement, Europe’s second- biggest water company by market value, said the desalination plant in Australia that was commissioned last month has reached full drinking water production capacity. The plant that’s pumping water in Melbourne’s Cardinia reservoir has brought its second and third water production lines on stream, raising the flow produced to as much as 450,000 cubic meters a day, the fac ...

Suez Environnement, one of the world's largest water and waste service company by revenue, plans to enter China's desalination market by tendering projects in two coastal cities in the next two to three years, said the company's chief executive officer. "We are preparing to tender desalination projects in Tianjin municipality and Qingdao in East China's Shandong province," Jean-Louis Chaussade, CEO of the P ...

China made remarkable progress in seawater desalination in recent years through the use of membrane technology, said Xu Nanping of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The new technology stands out from traditional methods, such as extraction and evaporation due to its lower energy consumption and higher purification rate, Xu said. "And it has become an effective way to deal with the water shortage in China, ...

Korean-invested Doosan Heavy Industries Vietnam (Doosan Vina) announced that it has received an order to manufacture four 4,000-ton seawater desalination plants for Saudi Arabia. The order came from Doosan Vina’s parent company Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction of South Korea who earlier had announced a US$1 billion order from the state-run Saline Water Conversion Corporation of Saudi Arabia. The c ...

A few months from now, the second desalination plant in Nemmeli will start supplying water to the city, and Chennai Metrowater will incur huge expenses in buying it — placing massive financial stress on an agency already burdened by revenue deficits for over six years now. In the last fiscal year alone, the difference between the water agency’s income and expenditure was nearly Rs. 100 crore. One major reas ...

Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov ordered the creation of a State Commission for construction of desalination plants on the coast of the Caspian Sea, an official Turkmen source said on Wednesday. This structure will improve the provision of Balkan province, western region of the country, with drinking water and water for farmlands. The State Commission has been given order to submit proposals to ...

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., a South Korean power equipment maker, said it acquired the British water treatment company Enpure Ltd., which is in administration. The purchase is in a bid to boost Doosan’s desalination business. This was reported by the Yonhap news agency, who did not cite the source of the report. Doosan Heavy also didn’t reveal the terms of the deal for Enpure Ltd., which ...