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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...
Read moreGE 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...
Read moreBradley Rickenbach
Bradley Rickenbach, formerly of Water Street Solutions and Advanced Water Recovery, has been appointed business development manager of NexED...
Read moreRichard 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...
Read moreBill 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...
Read moreGE 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...
Read moreOptions galore
Last week, the West Basin Municipal Water District awarded CH2M a contract to undertakean analysis of alternative project delivery models for a...
Read moreChemsbro 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...
Read moreGE 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...
Read morePUB 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...
Read moreMicrodyn-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...
Read moreDeveloper 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...
Read moreVeolia 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...
Read moreHyundai 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...
Read moreMembrane 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...
Read morePUB 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...
Read moreSchlumberger 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...
Read moreJobs: Business Development Manager
Doosan Hydro Technology, Tampa, Florida, has an opportunity for an experienced Business Development Manager with responsibility for the US...
Read moreEIR 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...
Read moreSpiral 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...
Read moreTenders 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...
Read moreHitachi 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...
Read moreAkkim 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...
Read moreSacyr, 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...
Read moreA 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...
Read moreOsmoflo 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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