Volume 44, Issue no. 5
Contract awarded
Durrat Al Bahrain, Bahrain’s planned $6 billion residential, commercial and tourist resort development announced the award of a 25-year DBO contract… Continue reading
5th NEWater plant awarded
One of Singapore’s Four National Taps will soon be opened a bit further as PUB—the national water agency—announced the selection of SembCorp… Continue reading
Agreement signed
Siemens Water Technologies has signed an agreement with CH2M Hill Singapore to identify future market and solution trends within the South East Asian… Continue reading
Considering desalination
The island nation of Mauritius—located off Africa’s east coast—is reportedly considering seawater and brackish water desalination to alleviate… Continue reading
Desal, reuse R&D funding available
The WateReuse Foundation (WRF), under its 2008 unsolicited research program, has issued a request for pre-proposals for funding consideration. It is… Continue reading
Jobs: Sultan Qaboos University
Oman’s Sultan Qaboos University will establish a research program in nanotechnology for water desal-ination. It is soliciting applications for a… Continue reading
Joined and appointed
Bob Siemak, formerly vice president of municipal development for Parsons Water and Infrastructure has been appointed chief of engineering and… Continue reading
Neighborhood-friendly WTP
RO elements were being installed in their pressure vessels last week as the City of North Miami Beach neared completion of a 17 MGD (64,345 m3/d… Continue reading
Power unstable
Power supply problems have reportedly plagued Thailand’s second largest SWRO plant since it was installed in mid-2006. The 12,000 m3/d (3.2 MGD… Continue reading
Red-letter RO membrane dates
A timeline chronicling the history of RO membrane development and commercialization is included on the back page of this issue. Space limitations… Continue reading
Relocated
WATEK Engineering will relocate to new offices. Effective 18 February, their new contact details are: 12122-B Heritage Park Circle Silver Spring… Continue reading
Water Planning 101
During the Multi-State Salinity Coalition’s recent National Salinity Summit in Las Vegas, Jorge Arroyo of the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB… Continue reading
Zero carbon city to use desal/reuse
Later this month, ground will be broken on a project that Abu Dhabi hopes will play a decisive role in its transition from technology consumer to… Continue reading