Oman’s government-owned electricity and desalination company, Oman Power & Water
Procurement Company (OPWP), was poised this week to sign agreements with Spanish-Omani
joint venture, Myah Gulf Oman Desalination Company to develop a 250,000 m³/day
Independent Water Project (IWP) in Sohar.

Namibia is pondering a desalination programme to address water shortages and to supply
irrigation schemes that consume annually some 430 million m³ of water.

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