Singapore’s national water agency, PUB, has formed two new knowledge sharing partnerships with key international water utilities through memorandums of understanding (MOUs) signed at Singapore International Water Week, 8 to 12 July 2017.

A new report on seawater usage in China published by the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) has revealed that the country produces 1.18 million m3/d of desalinated water, reports Xinhuanet.com.

GE has developed a new ultrafiltration (UF) and reverse osmosis (RO) system aimed at the drinks industry.

Tunisia’s national water utility SONEDE has secured a loan of JPY 36.7 billion ($328 million) from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to build a seawater desalination plant at Sfax.

These potential applicants were selected from a group of projects in communities from across the United States.

Dedicated experts will work to enhance water storage and reliability along the Front Range.

 Worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure is forecast to reach $266 billion in 2021, says IDC. PAlthough spending growth will slow over the 2016-2021 forecast period, the market is expected to achieve a five-year CAGR of 21.0%. Public cloud services spending will reach $128 billion in 2017, an increase of 25.4% over 2016. …

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  TI has introduced a pair of single-chip buck-boost battery charge controllers for one- to four-cell (1S to 4S) designs. The bq25703A and bq25700A synchronous charge controllers support efficient charging through USB Type-C and other USB ports in end equipment ranging from notebooks and tablets to power banks, drones and smart home applications. To learn …

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GaN Systems closes an investment round led by BMW’s investment arm, BMW i Ventures.

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Plessey has extended  its LED product portfolio into a variety of mid-power LED packages and now offers lighting equipment manufacturers a complete and competitive portfolio of solid-state lighting products and solutions for all general illumination market applications. Plessey’s mid-power LED product offering, called Midion, includes products with efficacy up to 210 lm/W, said the firm, …

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