We launched The Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance at COP21, the United Nations’ climate change conference in Paris, December 2015. In the first week of existence we already had 100 members. So many industry partners, governments, and stakeholders immediately wanted to join, it was unbelievable.

The first edition of our brand new look quarterly, Water. desalination + reuse, is out now, with all the latest news and views from the front line of the global water desalination and reuse industry.

Masdar Clean Energy set a target for its pilot projects of one cubic metre of water for every 3.6 kilowatt hours of energy used. This is a particularly challenging target in the Persian Gulf, where salinity is very high, the water temperature is high, it’s very shallow, and there’s high organic matter.

A new report issued Tuesday from the Environmental Working Group, an independent advocacy group, examined water systems across the country. 

Fujitsu Laboratories and the Fraunhofer successfully test a method using high-bandwidth signal transmission in the range of 1Tbps.

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Rohm will show matrix-style LED headlamp controllers at Electronica in Munich in November. Matrix headlamps use an array of LEDs to allow arbitrary beam shapes to be produced – dip, main, anything in between, and anti-dazzle dark spots withing beams. “Matrix/Pixel LED dynamic front lights and dynamic sequential turn indicators mark the latest developments in …

Read full article: Electronica: Rohm gets into LED headlights

The AMP Group announces an additional standard, gigaAMP, aimed at establishing common mechanical and electrical specifications for the development of advanced power conversion technology for distributed power systems.

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‘Making IoT work for us’ was the title of our IoT event and a notable theme that was the promising development of IoT for smart buildings.

Read full article: IoT Design 2016: Smart Buildings good: Smart Homes bad

Intel teams up with London-based IoT services company Telit Communications

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The chip industry will sink another 3.8% this year, said Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons at IFS 2016 in London this morning. “I t looks like the best number for this year, by my mathematics, is minus 3.8%,” said Penn, “that’s five years in a row that the chip market hasn’t recovered.” “Why?” asked …

Read full article: Five grim years