The Texas Water Development Board approved an up to $1.8 billion State Water Implementation Revenue Fund for Texas (SWIRFT) bond issue on Tuesday, along with nearly $3 billion in requests to use the fund to finance local water projects, including seawater desalination in Corpus Christie and a reservoir and pump station expansion in Brazoria County that will largely benefit a private company.Â
The United States has announced a R90-million additional humanitarian assistance package for Namibia, for âlife-saving food assistance and nutrition support to the most vulnerable Namibian children and their caregiversâ.
The Texas Water Development Board gave the OK for $535,111,000 in financing to help fund the city of Corpus Christiâs Inner Harbor Seawater Desalination Plant.Â
MCWD and PWRI held an inauguration ceremony on July 31, marking the start of the desalination plantâs operation that is set on August 1, 2024, Daluz said.
The facility converts brackish waters from the sea into fresh and potable water for the MCWD consumer.
The plant has an overall capacity of 25 MLD of water to supply to MCWD. (EHP)
The two companies vowed to commence the construction of the production facility in 2026 to meet increasing local demand for the reverse osmosis (RO) membrane, the device for desalinating water in the Middle East region.
The Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has received bids from at least three groups for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to build the planned 1 million cubic metre a day (cm/d) Jubail 2 desalination plant. For the 600,000 cm/d Shuaiba 5 desalination plant, SWCC awarded a contract to the local Rawafid and Advanced Water Technology (AWT) to build the 600,000 cm/d Shuaiba 5 desalination plant.
In a presentation to the City Council, Eshelman-Vogt groundwater project representative Michael Mintz described a âhuge, very low-saline reservoirâ situated in âvery unique location.â
Obor Infrastructure, a holding enterprise established in Singapore, owns two water companies, each operating a water treatment plant on the Indonesian island of Java, with a total capacity of 425,000 m3/day, and plans to increase the capacity by an additional 160,000 m3/day in the short to medium term. They supply drinking water to several districts in Greater Jakarta, the second-largest urban area on the planet.
The ceremony was attended by Suhail bin Mohammed Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Infrastructure and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Etihad Water and Electricity, along with Yousef Ahmed Al Ali, CEO of the company, and several senior officials.
The company announced Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabiaâs Al Khorayef Group to localize production of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes.