LG NanoH2O Is Now LG Water Solutions
LG NanoH2O, a manufacturer of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes for desalination, is now part of the newly launched LG Water Solutions business unit created by its parent company, LG Chem. Since the...
View ArticleAquatech to Supply Thermal Desalination System for Refinery
Aquatech, a global water and wastewater technology provider for the industrial and infrastructure markets, has been awarded a contract to design and supply a multiple effect distillation (MED) seawater...
View ArticleGE Desalination Technology Aims to Help Island Avoid 50% Water Rationing
Located in the Pacific Ocean, 22 miles southwest of Los Angeles, Catalina Island, California, is in the middle of a severe drought with residents and tourists potentially facing a mandatory 50 percent...
View ArticleH2O Innovation Designs Water Reuse System for Dry California City
H2O Innovation will design and build a water reuse system for another dry California city — Carlsbad — during the state’s ongoing drought, the water treatment company says. The ultrafiltration system...
View ArticleVeolia Starts Up Campo Dalías Desalination Plant
The Campo Dalías desalination plant, one of the biggest in Europe, will begin producing more than 97 million liters of desalinated water per day beginning next month, according to Veolia, which...
View ArticleDesalination Plants to Double by 2020
Increasing global water scarcity has opened up vast avenues for growth in the desalination market, according to a Frost & Sullivan report. Analysis of Global Desalination Market, finds that the...
View ArticleGE Puts Desalination Tech ‘On Ice,’ Costs 20% Less to Produce Fresh Water
General Electric researchers at GE’s Global Research Center in Upstate New York are working with the Department of Energy to test a water desalination system that produces fresh water at low cost by...
View ArticleIndustry Looks to Desalination, Emerging Water Treatment Technologies
Four years into California’s historic drought, a $1 billion desalination plant is being built by Poseidon Water. The Carlsbad Desalination Project, 12 years in the making, will convert up to 56 million...
View ArticleVeolia Desalination Technology Saves Masdar 25%, Reduces Footprint
Veolia’s desalination technology, in use at a pilot program for Masdar’s renewable-energy powered desalination plant in Abu Dhabi, has already lowered the electrical consumption performances by 7...
View ArticleLargest Seawater Desalination Plant in US Online
Operations are officially under way at the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant — the nation’s largest and most technologically advanced seawater desalination plant. The plant has already...
View ArticleWhite House Water Strategy Calls on Business to Boost Water-Efficient Tech
A water strategy announced yesterday by the White House calls on businesses and industries to conserve water and boost the use of water-efficient and reuse technologies. Through better water management...
View ArticleProcessed Water for Industrial Uses Gets Green Light
Water management and oilfield services provider STW Resources has received approval to move forward with a water treatment project that will supply water for industrial uses in dry Texas counties. The...
View ArticleObama’s Spending Plan Pumps $260M into Water Technology R&D
President Obama’s budget includes almost $260 million to fund a water innovation strategy, which the White House says will boost water sustainability and reduce the price and energy costs of new water...
View Article‘First-of-Kind’ Plant Converts Desalination Wastewater into Freshwater
A commercial water plant located next to a desalination plant in Texas will convert wastewater from the desalination process into fresh drinking water, extracting contaminants and transforming them...
View ArticleAre These Technologies Water Desalination Game Changers?
Increasing water scarcity is driving innovations in water production technologies, according to analysis by Frost & Sullivan that finds accelerated movement towards wastewater reuse and advanced...
View ArticleWill Clean-Energy Desalination Be a Game-Changing Water Fix?
Desalination is typically an energy-intensive — and thus expensive — way to produce freshwater, which is one of the reason it has been slow to take off as a widespread solution to water shortages. This...
View ArticleWind Energy Produces Water, Halves Cost
US companies Associated Wind Developers and Water Management Group have developed a technology that they say can provide low-cost freshwater. Wind4Water partners wind turbines with water desalination...
View ArticleMasdar to Power Desalination with Renewables
United Arab Emirates-based renewable energy company Masdar has launched a pilot program to test and develop energy-efficient seawater desalination technologies suitable to be powered by renewable...
View ArticleGE Water Treatment Achieves ‘Near-Zero’ Liquid Discharge; Desal Tech Cuts...
A successful pilot study has shown GE’s water treatment technology can help beverage companies safely treat and reuse water to achieve 99 percent or higher recovery in their plants, the company says....
View ArticleDesalitech Water Treatment Cuts Manufacturing Plant’s Costs
Desalitech says its water treatment system — located at the Dead Sea Works chemical plant in Israel — has cost and wastewater disposal advantage that can benefit manufacturing plants worldwide. The...
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