GMVP recently opened the SWRO-PRO pilot plant at Nambu wastewater treatment plant located in Korean port city of Busan. The pilot is used to demonstrate the technical feasibility of PRO (pressure retarded osmosis) to recover the salinity gradient energy.

Cagece, the water utility of Ceara state, northeast Brazil, has received two expressions of interest for a 86,400 m3/d capacity seawater desalination plant to serve the metro region of state capital city Fortaleza.

SUEZ and Solvay have won a brine treatment contract in the Wanhua Chemical Industry Park in Yantai (Shandong Province)…

FCC Aqualia is buying back a 49 per cent stake in its water business in the Czech Republic that it sold to Mitsui in 2013.

Samsung Engineering has asked the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) to begin arbitration proceedings against Saudi Arabia over the cancellation of its contract on Yanbu 3 water and power project.

Suez and Solvay have won their first contract in China to treat brine from a reverse osmosis desalination plant using a jointly developed advanced oxidation process.

A coalition of environmental groups in California has filed a lawsuit challenging the State Lands Commission on its decision to approve amendments to Poseidon’s environmental impact study for the Huntington Beach desalination project.

Strategy envisions a world, “where people and nations have the water they need to be healthy, prosperous, and resilient.”

 

The 33-year old construction worker died after a water cap blew, knocking him into water.

Grant to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection will improve the assessment of nutrient and sediment load reductions in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.