It seems daily there is a story about how the nation needs to invest in infrastructure. Like roads, bridges, and airports, our nation’s water infrastructure is crumbling and in need of massive investments.

After leaving a trail of destruction in Haiti, Hurricane Matthew made its way toward the southeastern coastline of the U.S., leaving a lasting mark on one town in particular – the city of Lumberton, N.C.

Energias y Aguas del Pacifico (ENAPAC), a proposed solar-powered seawater desalination plant and water transport project aims to support expansion of mining operations in Chile’s Atacama region.

The opening of the first seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant in Jordan marks a jumping off point for the country from which it can continue to develop a desalination programme, including the much-anticipated Red Sea-Dead Sea project.

As comebacks go, Abengoa’s has been pretty impressive. The company that has been through a traumatic one-and-a-half years, in April 2017 wowed the industry with a massive €240 million contract win from Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power.

“If everything goes to plan, my expectation is that we will have graphene oxide membranes in large scale production within the next five years,” says Rahul Nair, professor of materials physics and Royal Society university research fellow at the National Graphene Institute and School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, at University of Manchester, UK.

Former European Space Agency scientist Tim Harper, now chief executive of G2O Water Technologies, talks graphene-coated membranes

MEDAD Technologies, a specialist in adsorption, has worked to commercialise a multi-effect distillation adsorption desalination (MED-AD) system since spinning off from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2012.

A transcript for the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for June 5, 2017.

On 1 May 2017, Fredrik Ostbye, a Swedish entrepreneur with a track record of digital product development, joined the 72-year old Danish pumps manufacturer Grundfos in the newly created role of group vice president and head of digital transformation.