Heavy rains are great news for Sydney’s dams, but they come with a big caveat – Australia Throughout summer, Sydney’s water storage level fell alarmingly. Level 2 water restrictions were imposed and the New South Wales government prepared to double the capacity of its desalination plant. But then it began to rain, and rain. Sydney water storages jumped from 41% in early February to 75% now – the highest of any capital city in Australia.This is great news for the city, but it comes with a big caveat. Floodwaters will undoubtedly wash bushfire debris into reservoirs—possibly overwhelming water treatment systems. We must […] Heavy rains are great news for Sydney’s dams, but they come with a big caveat – AustraliaDME GmbH2020-02-14T13:26:14+01:00
New solar-powered system makes desalination ecofriendly – America A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square metre of solar collecting area. Such systems could potentially serve off-grid arid coastal areas to provide an efficient, low-cost water source, said MIT doctoral students in a paper appearing in the journal ‘Energy and Environmental Science’. The key to the system’s efficiency lies in the way it uses each […] New solar-powered system makes desalination ecofriendly – AmericaDME GmbH2020-02-13T16:38:53+01:00
World Bank to invest $117 million in water for the Gaza Strip – Palestine The World Bank announced on Monday that it will grant US$15 million for a water desalination program for the Gaza Strip. The new project was founded with the aim of improving the quality and quantity of water in Gaza, and will have additional funds of US$42 million from other donors. Another US$60 million will be handed over by the Kuwait fund for Arab Economic development. (LINK). World Bank to invest $117 million in water for the Gaza Strip – PalestineDME GmbH2020-02-12T18:52:56+01:00
Solar-powered desalination systems could bring water to disaster zones – Shanghai It’s one of life’s most frustrating ironies that Earth’s surface is over 70 percent water, but most of that is undrinkable. Desalination is an important technology that may help unlock more drinking water, and now two independent teams have developed new types of solar-powered desalination systems using very different mechanisms. The first of the two new designs comes from researchers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The team says the multilayer system has an impressive overall efficiency of 385 percent, producing as much as 5.78 L […] Solar-powered desalination systems could bring water to disaster zones – ShanghaiDME GmbH2020-02-11T14:57:53+01:00
GivePower and Zero Mass Water win awards – Dubai The US-based companies GivePower foundation and Zero Mass Water won the first and third place, respectively in the Innovative Projects Award – Small Projects category, at the 2nd cycle of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award. Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Media Council, has awarded the winners at a special event held in Dubai. GivePower Foundation won first place in the Innovative Projects Award – Small Projects category that is worth $120,000. Give Power’s project, Blu Drop Solar Water […] GivePower and Zero Mass Water win awards – DubaiDME GmbH2020-02-10T09:20:01+01:00
Rain could delay plans to double Sydney’s desal plant capacity – Australia Warragamba Dam is set to jump above 50 per cent capacity due to heavy rainfall, which means that the implementation of a plan by the NSW government to double the capacity of the Sydney Desalination Plant could be delayed. Earlier this year, NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey directed the operators of the plant to prepare for an expansion „as quickly as practicable“ in the context of drought and fast-dropping dam levels. However the $1 billion project will only proceed from the planning […] Rain could delay plans to double Sydney’s desal plant capacity – AustraliaDME GmbH2020-02-09T17:31:27+01:00
Scientists create simple, solar-powered water desalination – China A completely passive solar-powered desalination system could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar collecting area. Such systems could potentially serve off-grid arid coastal areas to provide an efficient, low-cost water source. The system uses multiple layers of flat solar evaporators and condensers, lined up in a vertical array and topped with transparent aerogel insulation. (LINK). Scientists create simple, solar-powered water desalination – ChinaDME GmbH2020-02-08T17:52:57+01:00
Simple, solar-powered water desalination – China A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar collecting area. Such systems could potentially serve off-grid arid coastal areas to provide an efficient, low-cost water source. The system uses multiple layers of flat solar evaporators and condensers, lined up in a vertical array and topped with transparent aerogel insulation. It is described in a paper appearing today in the journal Energy and […] Simple, solar-powered water desalination – ChinaDME GmbH2020-02-07T14:55:52+01:00
A new solar desalination system to address water scarcity – Kenya GivePower is launching containerized, solar-powered water desalination and purification plants in Mombasa, Kenya and La Gonave, Haiti this quarter. Like GivePower’s debut solar-powered microgrid desalination plant, which went live in Kiunga, Kenya in 2018, these new projects will operate with Tesla’s powerwall battery storage technology. At launch, both of the nonprofit’s new solar water farm projects will produce a maximum of 75,000 liters of water a day by coupling a 50-kW solar system with 120 kW-hrs of Tesla batteries; together this solar plus battery system will power two low-wattage, reverse […] A new solar desalination system to address water scarcity – KenyaDME GmbH2020-02-06T14:32:12+01:00
Saudi Arabia signs $426.5mn bridge finance deal for desalination plants – Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Environment, Water, and Agriculture, and the chairman of the General Authority for Salt Water Desalination, Eng Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Fadhli, has inked the kingdom’s first commercial ‘bridge’ financing agreement with local banks worth $426.5m (SAR1.6bn) to improve the utilisation of assets and increase the efficiency of Phase 1 of the Jubail desalination plant and Stage 2 of the Al Khobar project. The agreement, which was made in coordination with the National Center for Debt Management, will see the two […] Saudi Arabia signs $426.5mn bridge finance deal for desalination plants – Saudi ArabiaDME GmbH2020-02-05T17:08:27+01:00