Volume 43, Issue no. 36

Agua program Growth continues

1 October 2007

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

1 October 2007

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

1 October 2007

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

1 October 2007

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

1 October 2007

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

1 October 2007

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

1 October 2007

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

1 October 2007

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

1 October 2007

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

1 October 2007

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