Volume 43, Issue no. 18

6 bids received by UAQ and Imdad SWRO project

Imdad LLC, in collaboration with the government of the UAE’s Umm Al Quwaim (UAQ) emirate, received bids for a 72,737m3/d (19.2 MGD) SWRO project last… Continue reading

A 20-year ‘interim’ solution

Groveland Community Services District (GCSD) has been supplying water to Groveland residents near Yosemite since it began tapping into groundwater… Continue reading

Another week, another ‘first’

7 May 2007

Last week, this newspaper reported that one of the first full-scale SWRO systems in the Mediterranean to use membrane pretreatment for seawater… Continue reading

BuRec appoints new R&D director

Curtis Brown has been selected as the Bureau of Reclamation’s director of research and development. He has been with Reclamation since 1979 and holds… Continue reading

Desal program to consider BOT

7 May 2007

Previous desalination projects undertaken by Morocco’s Office National de L’Eau Potable (ONEP) have been implemented as conventional EPC projects… Continue reading

Deteriorating quality to be studied

Armed with a Department of Water Resources (DWR) Proposition 50 grant to underwrite half of the cost, the City of Camarillo will undertake a pilot… Continue reading

DEWA invites EOI for Hassan power and water project

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) is inviting bids from engineering firms to provide consultancy services secure contracts to advise on… Continue reading

Four bidders for Hamriya SWRO project announced

Bidders for phase 1 of Sharjah Electricity & Water’s (SEWA) 20 MIGD (24 MGD) Hamriya SWRO Desalination plant are reported to have been Aqua… Continue reading

Hotter Inside than outside

7 May 2007

Although the weather outside was unseasonably cool, reports from one of the workshops at European Desalination Society’s (EDS) annual meeting in… Continue reading

Lowest project bid price submitted by GSE Construction

Bids were opened last week for Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District’s Mocho Groundwater Demineralization Plant in Pleasanton… Continue reading

Membranes will treat GUISW

Pascal & Ludwig Constructors has been awarded a design/build contract for $15,145,359 to construct a water treatment plant by the City of Riverside… Continue reading

Slant well intake recommended

For the past five years, the Municipal Water District of Orange County (MWDOC) has been investigating the feasibility of a seawater desalination… Continue reading

They’re back

Metito Overseas (Sharjah, UAE) has re-established its presence in Saudi Arabia and founded Saudi Metito Ltd in partnership with National Power Co… Continue reading