AWS Database Migration Service is now available to customers in the AWS Asia Pacific Seoul and Mumbai regions, as well as the South America region in São Paulo. AWS Database Migration Service helps you migrate databases to AWS easily and securely. The source database remains fully operational during the migration, minimizing downtime to applications that rely on the database.

Egypt’s Ministry of International Co-operation and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development have signed a deal to build a new desalination plant in East Port Said.

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OriginClear’s PWT completes boiler feedwater upgrade for power utility.

Under this new 5-year contract extension, Veolia will manage and implement a customer utility information and billing software solution for the city.

Sembcorp Industries has reported a fall in net profit of 47 per cent to S$193.5 million ($144.2 million) for the first half of 2016. The decrease partly reflects a gain of S$54.7 million ($40.8 million) on selling UK water business Bournemouth Water in the first half of 2015, as well as a “difficult” current market environment.

Xylem has reported a fall in net income of five per cent to $71 million in the second quarter of 2016, reflecting debt refinancing costs and higher restructuring and realignment charges. Revenue was up one per cent to $932 million, helped by a robust public utility market globally, and particularly in the US.

Acciona group revenues fell by 16.3 per cent to E2,764 million ($3,086 million) in the first half of 2016, owing to a decrease in energy revenues and to a lesser extent construction revenues.

Following two years of R&D, MPW Industrial Services has introduced a combination introduced ultrafiltration-reverse osmosis mobile trailer…

The largest airport in the UK saved more than 130 million liters of water annually using GE’s advanced water treatment solutions…