The University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV) has won a US$ 330,000 grant to study the risks
associated with microbes in water reuse systems.

Tampa Bay Water joins the State of Florida, private businesses, water management districts and local governments in declaring April as Water Conservation Month.

State regulators have released the water conservation tally for the past nine months of mandatory reductions and applauded Californians for cumulatively saving 23.9% compared with the same months in 2013.

The project involves replacing the community’s drinking water tank with a new steel reservoir and adding a disinfection system. 

Facility provides microelectronics customers with the ability to perform operational demonstrations and testing of the advanced Vanox POU system that supports the industry’s manufacturing process. 

The Emirates’ Federal Electricity and Water Authority (Fewa) is to build four desalination
facilities over the next ten years at a cost of more than Dh 3 billion (US$ 750 million) to
produce 600 Ml/d.

India and Israel are looking to cooperate in water conservation, recycling and desalination.

Aurangabad state government has requested a detailed project report from an Indian Institute
of Technology professor who has proposed the construction of a 1,000 Ml/d desalination plant
near Mumbai to overcome water scarcity in Marathwada according to newspaper The Times of India.

Researchers at Qatar University College of Engineering, in collaboration with a team from
petrochemical giant, ConocoPhillips’ Global Water Sustainability Centre, have developed low-
carbon desalination technology, membrane distillation.

The US Water Prize is the first of its kind recognition program that celebrates outstanding achievement in driving toward a sustainable water future.