Volume 43, Issue no. 36
Agua program Growth continues
GE subsidiary Ionics Ibérica has been awarded its first contract in the Spanish government’s AGUA desalination program as part of the consortium… Continue reading
Effluent water auction
The Town of Prescott Valley, Arizona is auctioning the sole and exclusive contractual right in 2,724 acre-feet of annual effluent water (2 MGD; 7,570… Continue reading
Fog-basking beetle
The process of borrowing designs from nature has spawned a field known as biomimetics, and the Center for Biomimetic and Natural Technologies at the… Continue reading
John Poon back to CH2M Hill
After four years with Melbourne Water Corporation, John Poon has returned to CH2M Hill’s Melbourne office as a Principal Technologist. He had… Continue reading
MF/UF to replace SWRO media filters
Five and one-half years after startup, the largest SWRO facility in the western hemisphere is planning for both an expansion and a pretreatment… Continue reading
Seawater NF moves to Deeper water
A nanofiltration (NF) process to remove sulfate from seawater that was developed by Marathon Oil in the 1980s is finding increased application as the… Continue reading
Tampa bay GM resigns
Jerry Maxwell, the general manager of Tampa Bay Water (TBW) since 1995, has resigned his position effective 28th February 2008. During his tenure, he… Continue reading
UF pretreatment for Refinery demin
Petrobras has chosen Veolia’s VWS Brazil to design and build high purity water treatment facility for high-pressure boiler feedwater at its Duque de… Continue reading
Water reuse project begins testing
Orange County Water District’s (OCWD) groundwater replenishment (GWR) project began a 48-hour test of its new 86 MGD (325,510 m3/d) Siemens/Memcor MF… Continue reading
Withlacoochee alternative water supply will go under examination
Florida’s Withlacoochee Regional Water Supply Authority said last week that one of its proposed long-range alternative water supply sources is the… Continue reading