The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has floated a short tender to appoint a contractor for the long-pending ambitious desalination project at Manori. The civic body couldn’t find a contractor even seven months after floating the tender in December. There are allegations of discrepancies in the tender process.
The United States has announced a R90-million additional humanitarian assistance package for Namibia, for „life-saving food assistance and nutrition support to the most vulnerable Namibian children and their caregivers“.
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According to a press release from the MOI’s National Land Management Agency on Thursday, the plant will cover 16.9 hectares, making it the largest in southern Taiwan. It is expected to produce 200,000 tons of desalinated water daily, per CNA.
In the summer of 2022, hundreds of tons of dead fish were found in the river that runs along part of Poland’s border with Germany. Smaller amounts of dead fish have been found in Oder and its tributaries several times this year.
METROPAC Water Investments Corp. (Metro Pacific Water) said it targets to complete the Philippines’ largest desalination plant in Iloilo City by 2026.
“We’re all focused on that. That will be the biggest desalination for the Philippines. So far, the target is to have it operational by 2026,” Metro Pacific Water President and Chief Executive Officer Christopher Andrew B. Pangilinan said on the sidelines of an event on Tuesday.
MUSCAT: Austrian solar tech startup Heliovis has announced that a groundbreaking Solar Water Treatment Plant, constructed at a remote oilfield location in Dhofar Governorate, will be brought into operation by around the middle of this month.
The Sustainable Water Platform (PAS) has questioned the viability of building a desalination plant in the Algarve, as part of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), after it became known that the funds available for the project are insufficient.
Chilean miner Antofagasta Minerals on Thursday inaugurated a more than $2 billion desalination plant for its flagship copper mine in Chile, Los Pelambres, aimed at relieving the effects of severe drought that has hit production.
The order is towards the Operation and Maintenance of 110 million litres per day Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Desalination Plant at Nemmeli in Chennai for a period of 7 years, city-based VA Tech WABAG Ltd said.
The initial Cooperation Agreement, signed on February 2, 2023, marks a significant milestone in the country’s journey towards a sustainable future. Building on that, SOCAR and „ACWA Power“ further strengthened their partnership by signing an additional Agreement on Cooperation on April 16, 2024. This new agreement focuses on the joint evaluation of the „Low-Carbon / Green Fertilizer“ project, highlighting the commitment of both parties to exploring new avenues for sustainable development.