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
Chile says to clamp down on water rights in lithium-rich Salar de Atacama – Antofagasta – Chile Water authority chief Oscar Cristi said in an exclusive interview that regulators had stopped issuing new permits to extract water from the southernmost sector of the Salar’s watershed, known as C2. Which is a key water supply for BHP’s (BHP.AX) Escondida copper mine, the world’s largest, and Antofagasta (ANTO.L)’s Zaldivar mine. Cristi said the government had granted BHP and Antofagasta permits to pump six times more water from an aquifer at Atacama than it could sustain, prompting the ban. BHP has since proposed to cut water extraction from wells […] Chile says to clamp down on water rights in lithium-rich Salar de Atacama – Antofagasta – ChileDME GmbH2018-08-28T13:05:50+02:00
Sindh cabinet decides to establish desalination plant in Karachi – Karachi – Pakistan The new Sindh cabinet, in its maiden meeting on Monday, decided to establish a desalination plant to provide drinking water to the people of Karachi. Sindh cabinet decides to establish desalination plant in Karachi – Karachi – PakistanDME GmbH2018-08-28T13:08:06+02:00
LG Chem Marches into the Brackish Water RO Market After Establishing Leadership in Seawater Desalination – Santa Clara – USA In August 2018, LG Chem was awarded a contract to supply replacement membranes to the Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center, the largest plant of its kind in northern California and the focal point of the Santa Clara Valley Water District’s recycled water expansion. LG Chem will supply energy saving BW ES membranes to the 8 MGD (30,280 m3/day) facility. In addition following more than 18 months of trial, in June, LG Chem was awarded a contract to supply 3,170 energy saving BW ES elements to the Ground Water […] LG Chem Marches into the Brackish Water RO Market After Establishing Leadership in Seawater Desalination – Santa Clara – USADME GmbH2018-08-30T08:19:55+02:00
Sleaford Bay land purchased for desalination plant – Port Lincoln – Australia Construction of an $80-million desalination plant at Sleaford Bay is likely to begin in 18 months to two years and would supply Eyre Peninsula with water. Minister for Environment and Water David Speirs announced the plans on a recent visit to the Port Lincoln. SA Water finalised the purchase of about 60 hectares of land near Sleaford Bay in July this year. (LINK). Sleaford Bay land purchased for desalination plant – Port Lincoln – AustraliaDME GmbH2018-08-28T13:10:03+02:00