Researchers at Israel’s Bar Ilan University and the Tel HaShomer Hospital have concluded that
consumption of desalinated water has upped the incidence of heart disease and increased
death rates as a consequence.

Market analyst BCC Research has forecast in a recent report that global cumulative investments
in desalination facilities will hit close to US$ 48.2 billion by 2020, from some US$ 21.4 billion
in 2015 – a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.6%.


The agency has been in negotiations for months to purchase 20,370 acres of property owned by Delta Wetlands Properties in Contra Costa, San Joaquin, and Solano counties.

The plant, located in Culbertson, Montana, employs Sionix’s proprietary patented Dissolved Air Flotation technology.

AWWA supports recommendations from the National Drinking Water Advisory Council for improvements to the existing Lead and Copper Rule. 

Austria-based mixed-signal IC foundry ams has confirmed, at the CDNLive event in Santa Clara/CA, that it is manufacturing Sarda’s advanced high-voltage CMOS drivers which are used in its Heterogeneous Integrated Power Stage (HIPS). US-based Sarda has developed the technology to address the rapidly escalating power consumption in data centres by offering fast and efficient voltage …

Power chip start-up benefits from specialist ams foundry

Azul Systems, the Java runtime developer run by Scott Sellers, has developed a version of its open source Java Virtual Machine (JVM) called Zulu Embedded which supports 32-bit ARM processors. This means it supports processors based on the ARM v6, v7 and 32-bit v8 architectures, as well as continuing support for x86 32 and 64-bit …

Azul ports Java virtual machine to ARM processors

Keysight Technologies has upgraded its 16-channel, PXIe digital stimulus/response (DSR) module with the inclusion of pattern editing development software. The pattern editing development software can be used to create and edit waveform patterns or to import digital patterns created by automatic test generation applications and other sources. The DSR can synchronise up to 12 modules …

Keysight adds waveform creation software to PXIe generator

The semiconductor materials market decreased 1.5% in 2015, says SEMI. Total wafer fabrication materials and packaging materials were $24.1 billion and $19.3 billion, respectively. Comparable revenues for these segments in 2014 were $24.2 billion for wafer fabrication materials and $19.8 billion for packaging materials. The wafer fabrication materials segment decreased 1% year-over-year, while the packaging …

Semiconductor materials market fell 1.5% in 2015

Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Organization (ITRI) is building a flexible OLED lighting panel production line capable of producing 700 panels a month, reports Digitimes. Production on the roll-to-roll line is scheduled to start next year. The panels are made using thin film glass substrates. A 7cm by 7cm OLED lighting panel with luminous efficiency of …

Taiwan’s ITRI building OLED lighting line