Sindh govt to install 300m gallon desalination plant near Hub – Sindh – Pakistan The Sindh government on Monday decided to install a 300 million gallon desalination plant. Hub Power Company (Hubco) proposed that a 300 million gallon desalination plant be installed to deal with Karachi’s water crisis during a meeting chaired by Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah. According to authorities, the desalination plant will be installed near Hub. (LINK). Sindh govt to install 300m gallon desalination plant near Hub – Sindh – PakistanDME GmbH2018-09-21T19:24:50+02:00
Perth dam levels swell after wet winter – Perth – Australia PERTH’s dams have swelled to their highest levels in almost a decade after a return to relatively average rainfall over the past two winters. The Water Corporation said yesterday that almost 100 billion litres of run-off had flowed into Perth’s network of reservoirs between June and last month — just shy of the post-1975 average of 107 billion litres. It comes after one of the city’s wettest winters in years during which 467.4mm of rain fell, almost in line with the historical average of 473.7mm. Perth dam levels swell after wet winter – Perth – AustraliaDME GmbH2018-09-21T19:25:03+02:00
Texas City Offers Industry a Choice: Pay an Exemption Fee or Face Higher Water Surcharges – Texas – United States With water shortages or potential water shortages facing many cities across the US, governments are struggling with how to work with industry to ensure the organizations are not depleting too much of the available water sources. Now, the town of Corpus Christi, Texas, may be implementing what it believes will be a solution: offering large-scale industrial companies a $0.25 drought surcharge exemption fee. The fee would allow industrial customers to pay an extra $0.25 per 1,000 gallons of water use. The surcharge exemption fee would not be mandatory, but […] Texas City Offers Industry a Choice: Pay an Exemption Fee or Face Higher Water Surcharges – Texas – United StatesDME GmbH2018-09-21T19:35:49+02:00
ADB assures financial assistance for desalination plant, other projects in Sindh – Sindh – Pakistan Asian Development Bank (ADB) Central West Asian Department (CWRD) Director General (DG) Werner Liepach on Thursday assured Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murtad Ali Shah to provide financial and technical assistance for the Karachi desalination plant as well as multiple other infrastructure projects in the province. This was announced in a meeting that took place between the Sindh CM and ADB delegation. (LINK). ADB assures financial assistance for desalination plant, other projects in Sindh – Sindh – PakistanDME GmbH2018-09-21T19:36:32+02:00
HICL pockets £91m from Australian water plant sale – Victoria – Australia HICL Infrastructure (HICL) has agreed to sell its interest in an Australian water plant, netting the trust £91 million. The £2.8 billion trust managed by InfraRed Capital has agreed to sell its 9.7% interest in the AquaSure Desalination public-private partnership project. The project is a 30-year concession to finance, construct, operate, and maintain the largest desalination plant in the southern hemisphere and is capable of producing 444 million litres of drinking waters a day. (LINK). HICL pockets £91m from Australian water plant sale – Victoria – AustraliaDME GmbH2018-09-21T18:41:22+02:00
Sydney dam levels plummeting as desalination plant stalls – Sydney – Australia A multimillion dollar desalination plant built to address water shortages in Sydney a decade ago may not be fully operational until next August. As drought continues to grip New South Wales, Sydney’s dam levels are falling at such a rapid rate that the city’s only desalination plant could be needed for the first time since 2012. Sydney’s total water storage fell to 65% this week, down about a quarter since last year. Warragamba Dam, the city’s largest water source, is at 68.3%. Twelve months ago it was at 90.7% […] Sydney dam levels plummeting as desalination plant stalls – Sydney – AustraliaDME GmbH2018-08-30T08:14:41+02:00
Israel Endures Sixth Year of Drought – Israel The Sea of Galilee is 214.2 meters (703 feet) below sea level, perilously close to its black line. Nevertheless, the average Israeli has not felt the drought as in the past, mostly due to the fact that the state has invested heavily in building five enormous desalination plants in recent years. providing some 70% of the country’s drinking water directly from the sea and is building two more. Furthermore, Israel recycles some 86% of its waste water for agricultural purposes. (LINK). Israel Endures Sixth Year of Drought – IsraelDME GmbH2018-08-30T08:08:18+02:00
Basra governor wants oil firms to build water plants – Barsa – Iraq The governor of the Iraq’s Basra province has said major oil companies must set up water desalination plants for residents if they want to continue operating there. The oil-rich province last week saw a surge in illnesses blamed on a lack of safe drinking water, which residents and local politicians say is part of a breakdown in public services caused by corruption and years of neglect by the government in Baghdad. (LINK). Basra governor wants oil firms to build water plants – Barsa – IraqDME GmbH2018-08-28T13:08:47+02:00
Israel aims to fully depend on water desalination in 5 years – Israel Israel is expected by 2022-2023 to be probably the first country in the world to depend fully on desalination plants to meet its population drinking water need. Nowadays Israel is already producing around 600 million cubic meters of desalinated water equal to about 70-80 percent of the country’s tap drinking water demand. Israel is a leading country in using desalinated water, started in 2005 with a capacity of 20 million cubic meters, and since then, the amount increases every year. (LINK). Israel aims to fully depend on water desalination in 5 years – IsraelDME GmbH2018-08-28T13:08:00+02:00
Is Desalination Feasible for Santa Monica? – Santa Monica – USA Coleridge was not writing about Santa Monica in this poem but he may as well have been. Santa Monica, like all of coastal Southern California, sits next to the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest body of water but because of the salt, the water is undrinkable. This could soon change, however, as local water experts consider the possibility of removing the salt from the ocean to make it drinkable in a process known as desalination. It is a myth the greater Los Angeles area is a desert but its […] Is Desalination Feasible for Santa Monica? – Santa Monica – USADME GmbH2018-09-21T19:42:26+02:00