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China’s 1st nuclear steam project to turn seawater into clean energy – China

China has started construction of its first nuclear-powered steam supply project for industrial purpose to utilize heat generated by the nuclear power to convert desalinated sea water into clean, stable and efficient industrial steam and reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions.

According to CNNC, its Tianwan nuclear-powered project with a total investment of $108.4 million and construction period of 24 months, will be fully operational by the end of 2023.

New desalination plants, power stations, and pumping stations will also be built under the project. 

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China’s 1st nuclear steam project to turn seawater into clean energy – China2022-05-29T14:39:31+02:00

VEOLIA WATER TECHNOLOGIES LAUNCHES NEW DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR DESALINATION AND WATER REUSE IN ASIA PACIFIC – Singapore

Veolia Water Technologies, a subsidiary of the Veolia group and specialist in water treatment, announces the Asia Pacific launch of the Barrel, an integrated plug-and-play reverse osmosis (RO) technology.

The Barrel will be showcased at the upcoming CleanEnviro Summit Singapore (18-21 April) and OzWater 2022 trade exhibition in Brisbane, Australia (10-12 May).

With increasing demand for fresh water and rising concerns over scarcity in the region, the Barrel meets the challenges and expectations of the desalination market while producing fresh water complying with all water quality standards. [
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VEOLIA WATER TECHNOLOGIES LAUNCHES NEW DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR DESALINATION AND WATER REUSE IN ASIA PACIFIC – Singapore2022-04-22T14:57:50+02:00

HK desalination plant expected to be completed on schedule – Hong kong

The construction of a desalination plant in Hong Kong designed to expand water supplies in the special administrative region is expected to finish and put into use in 2023, the project engineers said on Tuesday.

The Tseung Kwan O desalination plant, built with a water production capacity of 135,000 cubic metres per day, can meet 5 percent of Hong Kong’s current fresh water demand, said Lee Kwun-chung, chief engineer from the Water Supplies Department of the Hong Kong SAR.

After its entry into service, it will be the first [
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HK desalination plant expected to be completed on schedule – Hong kong2021-10-26T14:34:59+02:00

Taiwan Rations Water, Drills Extra Wells Amid Record Drought – Taiwan

Some households in Taiwan are going without running water two days a week after a months-long drought dried up the island’s reservoirs and a popular tourist lake.

Authorities are drilling extra wells and using military planes to dump cloud-seeding chemicals in hopes of triggering rain. The government has allocated money to extract drinkable water from the sea.

Farmers who need to flood paddies to raise rice, lotus root and other thirsty crops have been hit hard.

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Taiwan Rations Water, Drills Extra Wells Amid Record Drought – Taiwan2021-05-08T15:33:33+02:00

Island of Taiwan in grasp of major drought – Taiwan

A lack of rain over the past year has sent the island of Taiwan into its worst drought in more than half a century, the BBC reports, with many of its reservoirs at less than 20 percent capacity, with water levels at some falling below 10 percent.

Normally one of the wettest places in the world with a tropical to subtropical climate, no typhoon or monsoon hit the island last year and there has been little rain.

The lack of water is hurting a key industry – semiconductors, computer [
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Island of Taiwan in grasp of major drought – Taiwan2021-04-23T11:08:52+02:00

Hoshinoya Taketomi-jima installs self-sufficient seawater desalination system, reducing plastic bottle waste – Japan

Under the management of General Manager Kaoru Honda, the resort hotel Hoshinoya Taketomi-jima in Taketomi-Cho, Taketomi Island, recently started supplying its drinking water by desalinating seawater.

The hotel hopes to reduce plastic bottle waste, which has become a problem on the island due to drifting garbage and littering.

With the introduction of the independent water supply, the hotel will no longer provide bottled mineral water in guest rooms. This will reduce about 50,000 plastic bottles per year.

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Hoshinoya Taketomi-jima installs self-sufficient seawater desalination system, reducing plastic bottle waste – Japan2021-03-23T15:07:35+01:00

Busan to utilize inactive desalination plant as research hub for industrial demonstration – Busan – South Korea

The southern port city of Busan will use a desalination plant for tap water as a research hub to demonstrate new desalination technologies and localize parts.

The biggest desalination plant in South Korea has been virtually inactive since 2016 due to protests by residents. The reverse osmosis desalination plant located in Gijang, a coastal town near Busan, was built in 2014 through a 200 billion won ($82.9 million) project to produce 45,000 tons of tap water daily.

However, the plant’s operation came to a stalemate when Gijang [
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Busan to utilize inactive desalination plant as research hub for industrial demonstration – Busan – South Korea2021-01-08T10:21:42+01:00

Beijing water operator reports revenue gains in 2019 – China

Beijing Capital Co Ltd, the world’s fifth-largest and the country’s second-largest water operator, reported revenue of more than 14.9 billion yuan in 2019, 20 percent up compared with the same period in the previous year. Total profit reached 1.598 billion yuan ($227.17 million), up 25 percent year-on-year.

Environmental business revenue reached 14.6 billion yuan, 98 percent of total revenue. Business relating to water affairs witnessed a year-on-year increase of 29 percent, and solid waste business was up 15 percent.

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Beijing water operator reports revenue gains in 2019 – China2020-04-13T15:29:12+02:00

System achieves new level of efficiency in harnessing sunlight to make fresh potable water from seawater – Cambridge

A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar collecting area.

Such systems could potentially serve off-grid arid coastal areas to provide an efficient, low-cost water source.

The system uses multiple layers of flat solar evaporators and condensers, lined up in a vertical array and topped with transparent aerogel insulation. It is described in a paper appearing today [
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System achieves new level of efficiency in harnessing sunlight to make fresh potable water from seawater – Cambridge2020-03-13T15:29:54+01:00

New solar-powered system makes desalination ecofriendly – America

A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square metre of solar collecting area. 

Such systems could potentially serve off-grid arid coastal areas to provide an efficient, low-cost water source, said MIT doctoral students in a paper appearing in the journal ‘Energy and Environmental Science’.

The key to the system’s efficiency lies in the way it uses each [
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New solar-powered system makes desalination ecofriendly – America2020-02-13T16:38:53+01:00
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