Regional - Asia Pacific News

Tuas 3 to include new desal technology

In 2008, Evoqua Water Technologies (then Siemens Water) won the Singapore Challenge, a competition initiated by the Singaporean government to cut the energy cost of desalination in half. Two years...

Toray to supply UF membranes to Thailand's water filtration plant

Toray has received an order for its Torayfil hollow fiber UF membranes for a 110,000 m3/d surface water filtration plant in Bangkok, Thailand. The potable water facility, which will be the largest...

2015 Research Innovation Award for Western Australia delivers in NCEDA

The Australian Water Association’s 2015 Research Innovation Award for Western Australia was presented to the National Center of Excellence Australia (NCEDA) for its project “Evaluation...

AWA to conduct webinar on December 9

The Australian Water Association will hold a Webinar entitled Seawater Desalination in California – Reflections of Australia, 2005 on Wednesday, 9 December. GHD’s Mark Donovan will...

Owner’s engineer chosen for SWRO

Up to 80 percent of Hong Kong’s water supply is imported from China’s southeastern Guangdong Province, located in the Dongjiang River Basin. The importation dates back to a 1960 agreement for the...

Hyflux starts construction for two separate plants

In a 3Q2015 financial report, Singapore-based Hyflux said that construction of the 411MW combined cycle power plant co-located at its Tuaspring Desal Plant in Singapore is on schedule and expected...

SIWW Scholarship for US Leaders now open for submission

Online applications for the Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) Scholarship for US Utility Leaders may be submitted beginning 16 November. The scholarship is available to active Water...

PUB grant B&V a consultancy contract for Marina SWRO plant

Singapore’s PUB has awarded Black & Veatch a S$3.87 million ($2.75 million) contract to provide consultancy services on the 136,380 m3/d (36 MGD) Marina East SWRO plant. The plant could...

Ceramic UF WTP upgrade awarded

Earlier this year, PUB awarded a contract forthe world’s largest ceramic MBR to Meiden Singapore, a subsidiary ofMeidensha, aJapanese ceramic membrane manufacturer.PUB’s adoption of the new...

LG Chem opens new facility in Korea

LG Chem (formerly NanoH2O) has officially commissioned its new automated RO membrane mass production facility in Cheong-ju, Korea. The new facility will be responsible for producing all of the...