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SWRO tender canceled

Following a 26 January bid opening, where bid prices exceeded budget expectations, the 5-year DBO tender for a 22,500 m3/d (6 MGD) SWRO plant at Doreleh has been canceled. The European Union was to...

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GE formally introduces SevenBore UF

Using last week’s Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston as a forum, GE Water announced its new Zee-UF membrane technology for the...

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Bradley Rickenbach

Bradley Rickenbach, formerly of Water Street Solutions and Advanced Water Recovery, has been appointed business development manager of NexED...

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Richard G. Sudak, 1930-2015

Dick Sudak, a membrane desalting pioneer, died from diabetes complications in Oceanside, California, on Saturday evening, 21 November. He was 85.

Dick was born in Butte, Montana, and earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering from Gonzaga and The Ohio State University, respectively. In 1954, after working for GE Atomic Power at the Hanford nuclear site, he enlisted in the US...

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Bradley Rickenbach

Bradley Rickenbach, formerly of Water Street Solutions and Advanced Water Recovery, has been appointed business development manager of NexED...

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Bill Kocher

Bill Kocher, formerly the Water Director of the City of Santa Cruz, California, has been named the program manager for Pure Water Monterey, a...

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Ron Davis

Ron Davis, the executive director of CalDesal for the past five years, will assist with the transition of the new director, as he continues to...

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GE formally introduces SevenBore UF

Using last week’s Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston as a forum, GE Water announced its new Zee-UF membrane technology for the...

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Options galore

Last week, the West Basin Municipal Water District awarded CH2M a contract to undertakean analysis of alternative project delivery models for a...

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Chemsbro as distributor of SpectraGuard SWRO antiscalants in Saudi Arabia

H2O Innovation’s PWT subsidiary has appointed Chemsbro, a Jeddah-based member of SBCC Water Group, as a stocking distributor of its...

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GE Water to supply ZLD technology to Yulin chemical facility

GE Water will furnish its zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technology for Shaanxi Future Energy Chemical Company’s Hongdun coal-to-chemical...

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PUB release tender for Kranji NEWater plant

Singapore’s PUB has released a tender for an RO pilot plant at its Kranji NEWater plant, with proposals due on 12 May. Previously, AECOM was...

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Microdyn-Nadir to introduce new MBR membrane

Germany’s Microdyn-Nadir said that it would introduce a new, larger MBR membrane module at the IFAT in Munich later this month. With 480 m2...

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Developer seeks to expand solar desal

Even before its 60,000 m3/d (16 MGD) phase one solar-powered seawater desalination plant has been constructed at Al Khafji, Riyadh-based Advanced...

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Veolia to supply Hydrex water treatment chemicals to Angola

Total, the French energy giant, and Angola’s Sonangol Group have awarded Veolia Water Oil & Gas a three-year contract to supply its...

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Hyundai Rotem select Pall for UF treatment facility in Qatar

Pall Corporation has been awarded a contract for a 56,200 m3/d (15 MGD) UF treatment facility as a polishing step for Al Dhakhira Sewage...

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Membrane company expands its horizons

Aquaporin Asia has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Darco Water Technologies, a Singapore-based water treatment OEM, to...

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PUB to release RFP for Marina East desalination plant

Singapore’s PUB said that it plans to release a request for proposals (RFP) for the Marina East Desalination Plant later this month. The...

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Schlumberger merge with Cameron International

Schlumberger, the Paris/Houston-based oilfield services company, closed its merger with Cameron International this past Friday. The deal, which was...

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Jobs: Business Development Manager

Doosan Hydro Technology, Tampa, Florida, has an opportunity for an experienced Business Development Manager with responsibility for the US...

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EIR notice of preparation release for Doheny Ocean Desalination Project

California’s South Coast Water District has released a Notice of Preparation of an EIR for its Doheny Ocean Desalination Project. The...

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Spiral Water Technologies transfer to bigger headquarters

Spiral Water Technologies, the developer of an automatic self-cleaning filter technology, has moved its corporate headquarters to an expanded...

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Tenders imminent for Three desal plants

Egypt’s National Organization for Potable Water and Sanitary Drainage (NOPWASD), which is being advised by the PPP Central Unit—the country’s...

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Hitachi Infrastructure Systems merge with Aqua-Tech Singapore

Hitachi Infrastructure Systems has announced that it will merge Hitachi Aqua-Tech, its Singapore-based subsidiary that specializes in the supply of...

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Akkim Water Solutions announce PVDF hollow fiber UF membrane module

Akkim Water Solutions, a Turkish water treatment chemicals business and subsidiary of Akkök Holding, has announced its introduction into the...

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Sacyr, Valoriza Agua and Sadyt – Who’s whom?

When reporting on stories involving the captioned companies, it is not always clear as to which one should be credited. WDR has therefore taken the...

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A new week, Another new SWRO IWP

Last Tuesday, for the second week in a row, Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) signed a water purchase agreement for a major seawater...

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Osmoflo to supply UF/RO system to brewery treatment

Australia’s Osmoflo has been awarded a contract to supply an integrated UF/RO system to treat wastewater from the Stone & Wood Brewery in...

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