Solar-powered desalination firm to get Sh410m funding – Kenya, Africa
Solar-powered desalination technology company GivePower is set to receive Sh410.5 million in funding from American tech firm ServiceNow to provide its water farm technology to four counties in Kenya.
Second desalination plant crucial for water security – Namibia, SA
According to Orano Mining’s managing director Tommie Gouws, EDP has the capacity to produce 20 million cubic metres of water per year, with the existing infra- structure allowing for expansion up to 25 million cubic metres and the potential to further expand to 45 million cubic metres.
Deb Haaland announces $12.6 million for desalination facility, removal of ‚forever chemicals‘ – Mexico
LAS CRUCES – Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland stopped in Las Cruces Wednesday to announce $12.6 million in funding for a new desalination research facility in Alamogordo, which will address the area’s PFAS contamination (Per- and poly-fluorinated alkyl substances).
Kazakhstan Sets To Build Numerous Seawater Desalination Plants
(MENAFN– Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 29. In order to solve the problem of potable water in Kazakhstan’s Mangystau region, it is planned to build 9 seawater desalination plants with an estimated cost of more than 247 billion Kazakh tenge ($541.4 million), Deputy Chairman of the Kazakh Construction and Housing-Communal Services Affairs Committee Azimbek Pazylbekuly said, trend reports via the Kazakh media.
According to him, in 2025, the shortage of drinking water in the Mangystau region may amount to 100,000-110,000 cubic meters per day.
Feds announce $12.6 million to remove PFAS at southern NM desalination research plant – North America
LAS CRUCES – Remove salt to make drinkable, usable water – that’s the mission for a federally-owned desalination research facility in Alamogordo. The Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility or BGNDRF (big-EN-dorf) grants space for companies, government agencies and researchers to pilot-test their new processes for treating with variable salinity.
Westlands’ Innovative Desalination Project Gets $1.5M State Grant – California
Funded by Proposition 1, a $7.545 billion bond approved by voters in 2014, the Water Desalination Grant Program supports the construction and design of pilot projects that desalinate naturally occurring brackish and ocean water for drinking water supply.
Sovereign Fund of Egypt prequalifies 17 consortia for seawater desalination powered by renewable energy – Egypt
One consortium has been prequalified for each of the categories of up to 400,000 m3/day and 200,000 m3/day.
The program aims to launch multiple projects with a total capacity of 8.85 million m3/day by 2050, with the first phase planned to generate 3.35 million m3/day by 2025.
UAE adds new water desalination plant in Umm Al Quwain at AED 2.2 billion cost – UAE
Umm Al Quwain’s new water desalination plant is now fully operational and producing 150 million gallons per day, having costed Dh2.2 billion.
Al Ali also highlighted the project’s aim to reduce energy consumption, with the facility covering an estimated area of 250,000 square meters and serving all areas under UWEC’s supervision.
Milestone for SA Water’s Kangaroo Island desalination plant – Australia
Construction is progressing on Penneshaw’s new seawater desalination plant, with work now underway to install the next 20km of a large underground pipeline on Kangaroo Island.
This section of water main forms part of a total 50km being laid, which will deliver safe, clean water to new and existing SA Water customers from the new desalination facility once operational from mid-2024.
SA Water Senior Manager of Capital Delivery, Peter Seltsikas, said installation of this pipeline stage is expected to be complete in 2023, with work progressively being undertaken from […]