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.

Marvell is to buy Cavium for $6 billion. Last year Marvell co-founders Weili Dai and her husband Sehat Sutardja were forced out of Marvell. They founded Marvell in 1995 and were accused of accounting irregularites which were unproven. The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) awarded them the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. This is the …

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After 24 years as No.1 semiconductor vendor, Intel will lose its crown to Samsung this year, reports IC Insights. Intel became No.1 in 1993 and was expected to match TI’s record as the only chip company to be No.1 for 25 successive years, but this year’s soaring memory prices will give Samsung the crown. ‘Samsung …

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Siemens is to buy Solido Design Automation, the Saskatchewan specialist in variation-aware design and characterisation software for the semiconductor industry. Variation-aware design and characterisation has become fundamental in designing complex ICs which combine analogue and mixed signal circuitry. Verification software needs to deliver confidence in the simulation results while avoiding time- and resource-intensive analysis methods, and …

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