Archiv für den Monat: März 2022

Aguas Antofagasta to expand desal capacity despite brine criticism – Chile

Chilean water utility Aguas Antofagasta plans to keep expanding its desalination capacity both in regional capital Antofagasta and the municipality of Tocopilla, despite criticism of the alleged environmental impact of brine discharges into the sea.

In December, the company received environmental approval for a US$115mn project to increase the capacity of its plant (in photo) in Antofagasta city to over 1,600l/s, and expects to have the expansion ready by late 2023 or early 2024, the firm’s operations manager Cristián Jiménez told BNamericas at the Desalination Latin America congress held by Vostock Capital. […]

Aguas Antofagasta to expand desal capacity despite brine criticism – ChileHIWI042022-03-31T15:22:29+02:00

East Pipes signs $132 million steel pipes contract with SWCC for water desalination – Saudi Arabia

East Pipes Integrated Company for Industry, a leading manufacturer of Helical Submerged Arc Welded (HSAW) pipes, has signed a project with the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) amounting to SAR 497 million ($132.4 million) to supply and deliver steel pipes for Water Transmission System.

The project was awarded on 12 January 2022 for a duration of 12 months, and the financial impact of the deal will reflect in East Pipes’ financials in 2022/2023.

“We are delighted to have entered into a new agreement with our long-standing partner SWCC […]

East Pipes signs $132 million steel pipes contract with SWCC for water desalination – Saudi ArabiaHIWI042022-03-30T16:53:48+02:00

Chile desalination projects advance despite regulatory uncertainty – Chile

“We will see how this evolves over the next weeks or months, but there’s no doubt that we will have a new regulatory framework.

And that is making some short-term investors to await these results to see which road to take,” Carlos Foxley, chairman of Chilean desalination association Acades, told BNamericas. He said two regulatory pushes are happening in parallel.

One in the constitutional convention, which drafts a new constitution, is focused on overall water management, while the second push comes from the senate and concerns a […]

Chile desalination projects advance despite regulatory uncertainty – ChileHIWI042022-03-29T19:58:35+02:00

New reservoir to double Larnaca water board’s storage capacity

Contracts were signed on Monday for the construction of a new water reservoir for Larnaca Water Board that will be erected at a cost of €3.7m and be completely financed by the EU’s recovery and resilience fund.

The new facility, made of reinforced concrete, will have a storage capacity of 10,000 cubic metres.

The project also provides for new piping, flow metres and other equipment, among other. It will be erected at Klavdia where the water board has its other storage facilities.

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New reservoir to double Larnaca water board’s storage capacityHIWI042022-03-28T16:46:53+02:00

Gulf Cryo to build carbon capture plant for Petro Rabigh – Saudi Arabia

This cooperation between Petro Rabigh and Gulf Cryo is aligned with their shared ambition to capture CO2 emissions with the goal of reducing CO2 emissions by up to 2 million tons per year by 2042.

This collaboration aims at capturing CO2 emissions from MEG Plant which is located at Rabigh Petrochemical cluster in Saudi Arabia and has a capacity of 600,000 metric tonnes per year.

This agreement, which was signed by Amer Al Huneidi Gulf Cryo Chairman, and Othman Al Ghamdi, Petro Rabigh President and CEO, will establish […]

Gulf Cryo to build carbon capture plant for Petro Rabigh – Saudi ArabiaHIWI042022-03-27T16:39:35+02:00

Solution & Environmental Challenge for Chile – Chile

The Pacific Ocean could quench the thirst caused by 10 years of drought in Chile, but the operation of desalination plants of various sizes has a long way to go to become sustainable and to serve society as a whole rather than just corporations.

Some twenty of these plants are already in operation providing desalinated water to small fishing communities, another three to the inhabitants of various municipalities and eight more to large mining companies, all but one of which are concentrated in Chile’s arid North.

The extensive development […]

Solution & Environmental Challenge for Chile – ChileHIWI042022-03-26T14:28:49+01:00

Namibia plans to tap sea water to keep uranium mines running – Namibia

Namibia is pressing ahead with the construction of a new desalination plant in the central coastal Erongo region to meet demand for water from uranium mines and other users.

A feasibility study for the plant, which will produce 70,000 cubic meters (2.5 million cubic feet) of water a day, has been finalized and a site has been acquired, Agriculture, Water and Land Reform Minister Calle Schlettwein said in an emailed statement on Thursday.

Arrangements are now being made to extract sea water and secure the required power, […]

Namibia plans to tap sea water to keep uranium mines running – NamibiaHIWI042022-03-25T13:34:56+01:00

Santa Barbara to Get Only 5 Percent of State Water – California

Ray Stokes has never been one for hair-on-fire histrionics. After serving 26 years as the resident Wizard of Oz running the Central Coast Water Authority  Stokes knows a thing or two about droughts. The one California now finds itself caught in might be the worst.

“It’s very drastic,” stated the usually understated Stokes. Stokes was referring to last week’s decision by the State Water Resources Control Board to limit deliveries to no more than 5 percent of entitled allotments.

That means the Central Coast Water Agency (CCWA) will […]

Santa Barbara to Get Only 5 Percent of State Water – CaliforniaHIWI042022-03-24T15:27:24+01:00

Water supply fears as Morocco hit by worst drought since 1980s – Morocco

As Morocco withers under its worst drought in 40 years, experts warn that a combination of climate change and bad resource management could trigger severe drinking water shortages.

“The country hasn’t seen a situation like this since the start of the 1980s,” said water policy expert Abderrahim Hendouf.
While it was usually farmers who bore the brunt of repeated droughts in the North African kingdom, today water supplies to cities are under threat, water minister Nizar Baraka told parliament in mid-March.

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Water supply fears as Morocco hit by worst drought since 1980s – MoroccoHIWI042022-03-23T15:15:21+01:00

Saudi’s Neom launches new subsidary company Enowa – Saudi Arabia

Mega Saudi project Neom has announced the launch of its subsidiary company Enowa, which will lead the development of its world-class, sustainable energy and water systems.
Work to develop these utilities has begun to provide the critical infrastructure for Neom’s key projects: The Line, its revolutionary urban development; Oxagon, its reimagined industrial city; and Trojena, its sustainable mountain tourism destination.
Oxagon is actively seeking tenants for its manufacturing hub, and supply of energy and water is essential.

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Saudi’s Neom launches new subsidary company Enowa – Saudi ArabiaHIWI042022-03-22T16:09:48+01:00