Regional - Asia Pacific News

International Conference on Sustainable Water Management in Perth

The International Conference on Sustainable Water Management will be held on 29 November to 3 December at Murdoch University near Perth, Australia. For information, visit http://swm2015.com.

Mining project gets Chinese partner

White Mountain Titanium has signed a non-binding MoU with Sinosteel Equipment & Engineering, a Chinese state-owned metals company, to develop the Cerro Blanco Mining Project in Chile’s Atacama...

Eight bidders vie for Tuas 3

PUB is now evaluating the eight bids that it has received for its third seawater desalination plant at Tuas. The 136,260 m3/d (36 MGD) Tuas 3 SWRO plant will be located on a 3.5ha (8.7 acre) site...

KfW to finance India's desalination plant

Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), Germany’s funding agency, will reportedly finance Chennai, India’s third seawater desalination plant. The 150,000 m3/d (40 MGD) SWRO will...

Mitsubishi to construct Tuas water reclamation plant

PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, has contracted Mitsubishi to build a demonstration-scale Integrated Validation Plant to test the technologies that could potentially be implemented at...

Tugun desalination plant to reactivate soon

It has been reported that Seqwater, Queensland’s water agency, could permanently reactivate the Gold Coast seawater desalination plant in Tugun, Australia, due to the region’s steady...

Tuas 3 SWRO submission of proposal extended until September 3

The deadline for design-build proposals for Singapore PUB’s Tuas 3 SWRO plant has been extended from 20 August until 3 September. Fifty companies sent representatives to a mandatory site...

SIWW Abstract submission deadline extended

Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) has extended its abstract submission deadline for its 2016 Water Convention to 31 August. For submission procedures, visit...

Potable BWRO is company’s 450 project

As the Australian winter comes to an end, Broken Hill—a remote mining town in the New South Wales outback—is preparing for its peak summer water demand. Not only has the town’s water supply been...

Australian Water Association partner with Arup on water usage survey

The Australian Water Association (AWA) is partnering with Arup on a national domestic water usage survey to ensure that Australia has a sustainable water future. The survey is open until 28 August...