It was certainly a positive change, thanks to a desalination plant that started operating in August, five years after construction began in 2019, with a US$ 61,000 investment by the Granma Provincial Delegation of Hydraulic Resources.
WASA reported that the plant, operated by the Desalination Company of Trinidad and Tobago (DESALCOTT), typically supplies 40 million gallons of water per day (mgd). Due to raw water quality issues caused by algae buildup at the plant’s intake area, production has been cut back to 30 mgd.
Despite water restrictions in the department, which was placed on yellow heatwave alert on Tuesday, only 250,000 litres of water were saved instead of the expected 400,000.
Hearing a petition on the complaint of water theft in Mumbai, Maharashtra Lokayukta V M Kanade has asked the state government to consider the option of setting up a desalination plant in a bid to find additional sources of water supply for the city.
The Ministry of Climate and Environment has attributed the excessive salinity primarily to nearby mining operations. To address this, three desalination plants are planned at mining sites, with one existing facility slated for modernization, the Polish Rzeczpospolita daily reported on Wednesday.
Shares of Va Tech Wabag surged 8.24 percent on Friday, hitting a two-week high of ₹1,394 per share, after the company announced it had secured a significant ₹2,700 crore order from the Saudi Water Authority.
(MENAFN) Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power has announced a major new project with the signing of an agreement to construct a water desalination plant in the Emirate of Sharjah, UAE. The deal, valued at approximately 2.56 billion riyals (about USD680 million), marks a significant investment in the region’s water infrastructure. The announcement was made through a statement to the Saudi Stock Exchange on Wednesday.
The Mayor of Dénia, Vicent Grimalt, has inaugurated the Desalination Innovation Centre installed by Aqualia in the IDAM of Racons. It is a platform where Aqualia’s projects in this field are centralised. It employs three people, a laboratory, a control centre and various pilot plants for pre-treatment and different types of desalination and post-treatment.
State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co sent two engineers to Malaysia to support the construction of a seawater desalination plant in late August. The facility, expected to be operational by mid-September, will produce up to 500 tons of fresh water daily, which can meet the demand of around 3,000 residents.
For the start of the new works, SMEAM and SMAE had to agree on the drafting of a new amendment. Establish point by point the penalties and other sanctions incurred by SMAE, among other things, in the event of non-completion of the works and delays, or even if the works do not allow the announced objective of daily production to be achieved. Started last year, the negotiations between the two entities were long, the amendment was only signed last week. The start of the works is planned for the start of the 2022 school year, for delivery expected […]
