Axine Water Technologies has raised $8 million in a second round of financing led by Japanese multi-national Asahi Kasei Corporation.

Actuator manufacturer and flow control company Rotork has introduced a new wireless valve monitoring and diagnostics product.

Boston based industrial water solutions specialist Gradiant has formed a new subsidiary, oilfield services company Gradiant Energy Services (GES).

PwC India is calling on the country’s state and central governments “to jointly issue a national wastewater reuse policy with clear targets, setting out the legislative, regulatory and financial measures needed to achieve those targets”.

The first edition of our brand new look quarterly, Water. desalination + reuse, is out now, with all the latest news and views from the front line of the global water desalination and reuse industry.

Masdar Clean Energy set a target for its pilot projects of one cubic metre of water for every 3.6 kilowatt hours of energy used. This is a particularly challenging target in the Persian Gulf, where salinity is very high, the water temperature is high, it’s very shallow, and there’s high organic matter.

This new cleanup plan will encompass contaminated groundwater, cleanup groundwater and ensure public health protections on the site.

We launched The Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance at COP21, the United Nations’ climate change conference in Paris, December 2015. In the first week of existence we already had 100 members. So many industry partners, governments, and stakeholders immediately wanted to join, it was unbelievable.

A new report issued Tuesday from the Environmental Working Group, an independent advocacy group, examined water systems across the country. 

Fujitsu Laboratories and the Fraunhofer successfully test a method using high-bandwidth signal transmission in the range of 1Tbps.

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