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White Mountain Titanium's Chile desal plant
White Mountain Titanium Corporation has signed a letter of intent with Nexo Capital Partners, a US-based private equity firm to fund, construct and manage a seawater desalination plant to serve the...
IDA: On the Horizon — a letter to IDA members
Dr Abdullah Al-Alshaikh is the IDA’s outgoing president, CEO of Riyadh-based Advanced Water Technology and the former Deputy Governor for Planning & Development of the Saline Water Conversion...
Off-grid solar power is a desal challenge
How often have you heard someone say that the world’s energy problems would be solved if it were only were possible to harness a fraction of the sun’s energy? Since the first solar cell was...
2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting
The 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting, which will be held in New Orleans on 21-26 February 2016, will include a session entitled “The impacts of seawater desalination on the marine and coastal...
DesalTech 2015 Conference Materials Available
The International Conference on Emerging Water Desal Technologies in Municipal and Industrial Applications—DesalTech 2015—will be held on 28-29 August in San Diego, California, immediately...
Caribbean: Bonaire expands SWRO plant
When the Caribbean island of Bonaire installed its first SWRO plant in 1985, it was years ahead of its sister islands in adopting membranes over thermal technologies. Since then, Aruba, Bonaire and...
SWRO permitting made simple(r)
Like most of California, Catalina Island is experiencing a severe drought. The rocky island, which is located 22 miles (35 km) south-southwest of Los Angeles, hosts over one million tourists a...
AMTA workshop in Canada a big success
Executive director Harold Fravel reports that last week’s AMTA Workshop in Canada had 97 participants, including a strong contingent from the Ministry of the Environment and several other...
Perth 2 reaches stage 2 of Final Completion
The Southern Seawater Desalination Plant, also known as Perth 2, has recently achieved its Stage 2 Final Completion Milestone, which marks the end of the Defects Liability Period. The plant was...
Spanish EPC firm awarded Qatari SWRO projects
A Spanish EPC firm has awarded Piedmont Pacific, a California-based subsidiary of H2O Innovation, two contracts to provide a total of 35,500 flexible pipe couplings for two different Qatari SWRO...
