Almar Water Solutions, a new water infrastructure development company led by former Abengoa chief executive Carlos Cosin, was launched at World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, January 2017.

The contract for a major power and desalination plant in Yanbu Industrial City, Saudi Arabia, has been cancelled by Saline Water and Conversion Corporation (SWCC) after it disagreed with EPC contractor Samsung Engineering over project changes.

Singapore’s water agency PUB officially opened the country’s fifth water reuse plant, BEWG-UESH, the second in the planning zone of Changi, on Tuesday 17 January 2017.

Mining giant BHP Billiton has reported the “mechanical completion” of Escondida Water Supply project, Chile, with the first water expected in March 2017.

Poseidon Water’s proposed mega desalination plant at Huntington Beach, California, has been named as one of US President Trump’s top 50 priority infrastructure projects in a document purportedly leaked by Trump’s transition team.

Gradiant Energy Services (GES) has appointed Danny Jimenez as chief executive with a brief to oversee strategic direction and growth, including expanding its offer to oil and gas operators.

GE expects to complete the sale of its Water business by mid-2017, it said in its Q4 2016 earnings call on 20 January 2017.

Yokogawa Middle East & Africa is to supply a distributed control system for a power and desalination plant in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the first time.

The UK’s first large ceramic membrane drinking water treatment plant is on track with 300 days of construction complete…

 

Latest round of main replacements gets $1.8M