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Memcor offers new submerged UF module

Evoqua Water Technologies’ Memcor product group is exhibiting its double-ended, submerged UF system at this week’s MTC. The new product is designated as the Memcor CSII Ultrafiltration System,...
Read moreTDS removal processes compared
Technologies designed to remove total dissolved solids (TDS) can be broadly categorized based on the intended end result: those whose primary...
Read moreDesal R&D center ponders the future
Since the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia (NCEDA) was established in 2009, the Australian government has funded $20 million...
Read moreTossing out the baby with the bathwater

Late last week, the Israeli National News carried a story under the headline “Desalination found to cause fatal heart disease”. The story said that researchers from Bar Ilan University and Tel HaShomer Hospital had concluded that patients with heart disease that lived in areas served by the country’s seawater desalination plants were more likely to die than heart disease patients in...
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TDS removal processes compared
Technologies designed to remove total dissolved solids (TDS) can be broadly categorized based on the intended end result: those whose primary...
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...
Read moreLANXESS introduce new condensate polishing module
LANXESS has released its new condensate polishing module for its LewaPlus integrated design software. The new module enables more reliable and...
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Grant to fund FO/RO potable reuse study
Porifera’s new dprShieldTM treatment process is one of six new water technologies to have been recommended to receive a $1 million applied research...
Read moreUF/RO equipment price breakdowns
Obtaining pricing information on projects is always difficult and sometimes impossible. And when price breakdowns are available, it can be just as...
Read moreDesal R&D center ponders the future
Since the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia (NCEDA) was established in 2009, the Australian government has funded $20 million...
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 moreSWRO 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...
Read moreScaling is a Heavy subject
In the Spring issue of UK-based Genesys International’s company newsletter, there was a story intriguingly entitled “Autopsies of the Quarter”. The...
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Microdyn-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 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 moreTeam selected for Reuse project
At a 7 April board meeting, directors of the Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD) agreed to select a team led by J.F. Shea for...
Read moreMitsubishi Electric develops compact eco-MBR
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation said that it has developed a compact, low-energy/high-flux MBR in conjunction with Tokyo City University. According...
Read moreMobile unit provides high-recovery BWRO
Last week, following a February partnership agreement in which Desalitech became a preferred supplier of RO systems for Pall’s mobile system fleet,...
Read moreLess injection means more treatment
Three days after the state experienced its third largest earthquake—a 5.1 magnitude tremor in Fairview, which researchers agree is due to...
Read moreGraphene Watch
Objective, hype-free news on desal's biggest buzzword
Technology idol lineup set
Participants have now been chosen for the eighth annual Technology Idol event, which showcases early stage, desalination-related technologies, and...
Read moreNew approaches to graphene membranes
Graphene continues to be the focus of many new research projects that attempt to identify a better material for filtering and desalting water. This...
Read moreWDR's Coefficient of Desalination Reality Rating
Find out more about how we calculate our CDR Rating
Artificial gill ‘too artificial’ to be true
With the ink barely dry on last week’s issue of WDR, reports that the Triton artificial gill was a fraud began to arrive. It seems that the...
Read moreA biomimetic Membrane process
In the mid-1960s, John Kessler’s interest in osmosis was piqued while reading a newsletter that explained why sharks don’t drink water. It seems...
Read moreAnother biomimetic membrane approach
Aquaporins—the protein channels that facilitate highly selective water transport through biological membranes—have long been studied as the perfect...
Read moreDesal Innovations promise energy savings
Over the past two weeks, several new desal technologies were announced with varying degrees of fanfare. It is unlikely that any desalter with an...
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