Chennai Turns Dry As Tamil Nadu Faces Worst Drought In 140 Years – India Tamil Nadu is suffering the worst drought in 140 years. Chennai is getting drinking water from Neyveli and Thiruvallur Chennai | Reported by J Sam Daniel Stalin, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Updated: June 26, 2017 14:34 IST Chennai: Chennai is facing an acute crisis of drinking water as all four lakes around the city have dried up, the local authorities have said. Tamil Nadu is witnessing the worst drought in 140 years. The city requires 830 million litres of water a day, but the supply has halved over the last few days, say water supply officials. There […] Chennai Turns Dry As Tamil Nadu Faces Worst Drought In 140 Years – IndiaDME GmbH2017-06-26T11:43:52+02:00
Cape Town’s first desalination plant – South Africa Mother City residents could be drinking seawater by as early as August of this year. Great news, seeing as the recent rains – as heavy as they were – barely made a dent in the dam levels of the resources supplying the city, pushing them up to just over 23%. Officials are hopeful that, as of August, Capetonians won’t be completely reliant on existing dams and reservoirs, what with an additional 500 million litres of desalinated water being pushed out per day. (LINK) Cape Town’s first desalination plant – South AfricaDME GmbH2017-06-26T11:54:08+02:00
Cape Verde: Desalination against aridity Water is already scarce on Cape Verde, a small island nation off Africa’s west coast, as climate change exacerbates aridity. The government is trying to solve the problem with desalination plants. But the water is very costly for inhabitants. … Video Link Cape Verde: Desalination against aridityDME GmbH2017-06-22T07:47:47+02:00
Russia looking to expand civil nuclear partnership with India to desalination sector MOSCOW: Russia is looking to expand its civil nuclear partnership with India beyond power generation and may even offer technology for desalination of water if Delhi makes such a request, according to Andrey V Nikipelov, CEO of Atomenergomash, a subsidiary of Atomenergoprom, state owned holding company which owns nuclear enterprises of Russia. “Desalination is a new business whose market is increasing. Kazakhstan has one such desalination facility built by Russia. We are now develop .. … (LINK) Russia looking to expand civil nuclear partnership with India to desalination sectorDME GmbH2017-06-22T07:33:42+02:00
Yazd Water Salinity Increasing – Iran The salinity of water resources in the arid province of Yazd is increasing due to manmade factors, the managing director of Yazd Regional Water Company said. Generally, the planet’s rising temperature leads to excessive evaporation in semi-enclosed body of water, which leads to hypersalinity. However, human activities aggravate the problem, ISNA reported. According to Mohammad Mehdi Javadianzadeh, urban development, excessive pumping of groundwater, rerouting rivers and streams, digging illegal wells, outdated farming methods and installation of desalination plants are among the main causes of water crisis and increased salinity of the precious resource in Yazd. Desalination processes produce […] Yazd Water Salinity Increasing – IranDME GmbH2017-06-20T07:57:36+02:00
Business opportunities in BARC’s water-based projects – India Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has come forward to disseminate several water purification devices and desalination technologies developed by it to potential business partners. And for the first time a one-day business meet on the feasible business ventures is being organised by the Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Institute in association with BARC on June 23rd in Coimbatore. Daniel Chellappa, Senior Scientist (TCW-NRB), BARC said that water experts wiil be conducting brain storming sessions on the establishment’s water technologies, product manufacturing protocols, technology transfer procedures and lot more to prospective and potential business partners. The dissemination of such technologies is considered […] Business opportunities in BARC’s water-based projects – IndiaDME GmbH2017-06-22T07:31:37+02:00
MXene Ti3C2: An Effective 2D Light-to-Heat Conversion Material MXene, a new series of 2D material, has been steadily advancing its applications to a variety of fields, such as catalysis, supercapacitor, molecular separation, electromagnetic wave interference shielding. This work reports a carefully designed aqueous droplet light heating system along with a thorough mathematical procedure, which combined leads to a precise determination of internal light-to-heat conversion efficiency of a variety of nanomaterials. The internal light-to-heat conversion efficiency of MXene, more specifically Ti3C2, was measured to be 100%, indicating a perfect energy conversion. Furthermore, a self-floating MXene thin membrane was prepared by simple vacuum filtration and the membrane, in the […] MXene Ti3C2: An Effective 2D Light-to-Heat Conversion MaterialDME GmbH2017-06-19T16:22:34+02:00
Thames Water refreshes plan for Abingdon Reservoir, despite opposition from GARD … GARD chairman Derek Stork, a former nuclear physicist, feared there was now a ’strong possibility‘ that Thames Water will favour the reservoir in its final document. Writing in a GARD newsletter this month, he said: „They have either ignored, or over-ridden with dubious arguments, the majority of critical comments coming from stakeholders like GARD. „Other [water] sources are less costly, less damaging to the environment, less disruptive to local communities and more robust against climate change.“ Alternative options also in the most recent shortlist include desalination plants and abstraction of water from the Lower Thames. About […] Thames Water refreshes plan for Abingdon Reservoir, despite opposition from GARDDME GmbH2017-06-19T16:19:56+02:00
Desalination plant labour strike called off A labour strike at the Episkopi desalination plant was called off following a meeting between union representatives and Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou. Discussions between workers, management and the Ministry to find an agreement between the conflicting parties were effective says the Labour Ministry in an announcement. The union representatives met with Emilianidou on Wednesday afternoon, and went on to diffuse the strike actions announced at the desalination plant in Episkopi, Limassol’s main water source. The desalination plant supplies 80% of the city’s water on any given day, however the government can channel water from other sources, such as dams for instance. […] Desalination plant labour strike called offDME GmbH2017-06-17T13:29:57+02:00
Egypt looks to the sea to meet its need for water … With Egypt’s population having more than doubled in the past 25 years, its water supply is increasingly scarce. The country is allowed to draw 55 billion cubic metres a year from the Nile, which is pretty well tapped out by the time it reaches the Mediterranean. It gets another 5 billion cubic metres from aquifers and rainwater. Ethiopia is about to begin filling the reservoir of its Grand Renaissance Dam, which, depending on how quickly it is done, could reduce the flow of the Nile by as much as 20 per cent over the next few years. Egypt looks to the sea to meet its need for waterDME GmbH2017-06-15T13:16:04+02:00