Volume 43, Issue no. 17

Avenue water treatment plant completion ahead of time

30 April 2007

The City of Ventura, California is nearing completion on construction of the 10 MGD (37,850 m3/d) Avenue WTP ahead of schedule. The $22 million plant… Continue reading

BEL pressure vessel office transfer from North to South America

30 April 2007

BEL Composite America has announced the move of its North American pressure vessel office from Florida to Pennsylvania. Peter Merkel will take over… Continue reading

BWRO brine evaporated

30 April 2007

Veolia Water’s HPD subsidiary has been awarded a contract to supply a brine concentrator evaporator for a new water supply project at the California… Continue reading

Calder will supply six energy recovery turbines project

30 April 2007

Calder AG managing director Beat Schneider announced that the company has received orders for energy recovery turbines for six projects with a total… Continue reading

Desal R&D database

AWWA Research Foundation (AwwaRF) in cooperation with the California Energy Commission has selected MWH Americas to identify and document… Continue reading

Duranceau new Associate Professor in UCF

30 April 2007

Steve Duranceau has accepted a position as Associate Professor in the Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Central… Continue reading

IP/Marubeni syndication won lowest bidder in Fujairah 2 IWPP project

30 April 2007

Zaal Al-Hameeri, chairman of the regulation and supervision bureau at Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) has said that the consortium… Continue reading

LNG facility looks to the Sea

30 April 2007

Marathon Oil’s new 3.4 million metric ton liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea has recently commissioned a high… Continue reading

Membranes = Less space, Better quality

30 April 2007

Siemens Memcor Products signed the $170,000 engineering services portion of an $8.4 million equipment supply contract with the ‘construction manager… Continue reading

Transition

Long-time desalter Mike Lamendola, president and owner of San Jose-based Seawater Systems, died last Sunday from complications of liver cancer… Continue reading

UF will pretreat SWRO

30 April 2007

An increasing number of installations are employing low-pressure MF/UF systems as the preferred method of SWRO pretreatment. The first such… Continue reading

Western US drought update released by BoR

30 April 2007

The Bureau of Reclamation (BoR) released an update on the Western US water supply last week, noting it was unseasonably dry with near-record warmth… Continue reading

Winton SWRO project received proposals from Consolidated Water and Veolia

30 April 2007

Consolidated Water and Veolia Water are understood to have submitted proposals for a 3 MGD (11,355 m3/d) SWRO plant in response to invitations from… Continue reading