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In brief: New 80 MIGD desalination plant to be installed in Karachi

Pakistan’s Sindh Provence government reportedly directed the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) to make arrangements for the installation of an 80 MiGD (363,360 m3/d) seawater...

In brief: ADEME issues call for research and development projects for PIA

France’s ADEME—the Agency for the Environment and Management of Energy—has issued a call for financing research and development projects as part of its Program for Investment for...

ZLD system to be delivered as BOT

Boston-basedOasys Water will provide its Membrane Brine Concentrator(MBC) technology for a zeroliquid discharge (ZLD) application in China’sgrowing coal-to-chemical (CTX) industry. Beijing Woteer,...

Two new SWROs to have Spanish accent

GWI’s DesalData lists 32 operating Qatari SWRO plants with a combined capacity of 87,000 m3/d (23 MGD), which is barely one-half of the output of either of the two large-scale SWRO plants announced...

Port to expand SWRO capacity

Adelaide-based Osmoflo has been awarded a contract to supply 4,500 m3/d (1.2 MGD) of desalted seawater to the Fortescue Metals Group facility at Port Hedland, in Western Australia’s Pilbara region....