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Forecast trends in desalination: a river flowing backwards from the sea
Today, I would like to address some of the key trends that we anticipate regarding the desalination market. Before I begin, I would like to take a moment to tell you about the source of the data, Global Water Intelligence’s DesalData, which my company publishes. This database incorporates the GWI / IDA worldwide desalting plant inventory. It is a complete listing of all the desalination plants ...
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Desalination System Investment to Exceed $14 Billon/yr. over the Next Five Years
In the next five years, suppliers of thermal and membrane desalination systems will sell systems valued at $73.5 billion of which $21 billion will be spent on brackish water systems and $52.5 billion for seawater systems. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company by aggregating forecasts appearing in its cross-flow membrane, pump, valve and filtration reports. The brackish water ...
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Israel Solves Water Woes with Desalination
After experiencing its driest winter on record, Israel is responding as never before - by doing nothing. While previous droughts have been accompanied by impassioned public service advertisements to conserve, this time around it has been greeted with a shrug - thanks in large part to an aggressive desalination program that has transformed this perennially parched land into perhaps the most ...
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OHL Medio Ambiente Inima has been awarded with a second desalination plant in Mexico
OHL Medio Ambiente Inima has been awarded a contract to design, build, operate and maintain a desalination plant to supply drinking water to the Municipality of Ensenada in Baja California, Mexico. The project, under a concession agreement, has been awarded by the Comision Estatal del Agua (State Water Commission) of Baja California to OHL Medio Ambiente Inima, with a 100% share in the project, ...
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Evoqua Commercializes Innovative Electrochemical Desalination Technology
Hello, Evoqua Water Technologies has commercialized its innovative, optimized membrane electrochemical desalination technology for adjustable dissolved solids removal capability with its first OEM agreement. The advanced, low-pressure electrodialysis membrane technology enables water output quality to be tuned by power adjustments to minimize footprint and energy consumption. In its first OEM ...
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California Board Proposes Ways to Protect Ocean Life, Water Quality During Desalinization
The California State Water Resources Control Board has released proposed amendments to the state's ocean plan that addresses desalination facility intakes and brine discharges. Generally, desalination plants remove salts from saltwater and brackish water to produce freshwater for municipal uses. The main environmental impacts associated with desalination facilities are marine life ...
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Modern Water plc modern water recruits additional senior management for its membrane division
Modern Water plc (AIM:MWG) has recruited a new Senior Manager as part of its planned growth in its Engineering department. The recruitment is in response to increased Client interest in Modern Water’s forward osmosis desalination technology and other forward osmosis processes, developed by the Company. Brian Moore, Modern Water’s new Engineering Manager, joins from Thames Water. He ...
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Market for Cross-flow Membranes to Rise 41 Percent by 2015 in Middle East
The market for cross-flow membrane equipment and replacement membranes will rise 41 percent by 2015 in the Middle East compared to just 25 percent worldwide and 29 percent in East Asia. These are the latest forecasts in RO, UF, MF World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. The world market for microfiltration, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis (RO) will reach $10.8 ...
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U.S. Department of Energy Announces $100 Million Energy-Water Desalination Hub to Provide Secure and Affordable Water
Recently (12/13), the U.S. Department of Energy announced $100 million to establish an Energy-Water Desalination Hub to address water security issues in the United States. The Hub will focus on early-stage research and development for energy-efficient and cost-competitive desalination technologies including manufacturing challenges, and for treating non-traditional water sources for multiple ...
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Department of Energy Announces $21 Million to Advance Solar Desalination Technologies
Recently (6/19), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $21 million for new projects to advance solar-thermal desalination technologies. These 14 projects are focused on reducing the cost of solar-thermal desalination and helping the technology to reach new markets, including to areas that are not connected to the electric grid.Desalination treats seawater, brackish water, and contaminated ...
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Dow Water & Process Solutions Awarded “Desalination Plant of the Year” by Global Water Intelligence
Dow Water & Process Solutions was awarded “Desalination Plant of the Year” by Global Water Intelligence (GWI) for its seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) facility in Kurnell, Australia. The award was presented by former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Anan, during the Global Water Awards ceremony on April 18 in Berlin, Germany. Dow Water & Process Solutions was ...
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Sales Of Filtration Membranes And Equipment To Reach $11 Billion In 2011
Consumer and industrial demands for clean water will drive the market for cross-flow membrane systems and replacement membranes to over $11 billion in 2011 up from $8.3 billion in 2007. These forecasts are displayed in the McIlvaine Company online report, RO/UF/MF World Markets. Forecasts are segmented by membrane type and efficiency. Reverse Osmosis is the most efficient membrane and ...
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Katrina demonstrates the growing demand for reverse osmosis units
Untitled Document When gulf coast residents were left without a drinking water source in the aftermath of Katrina, Tularosa Basin National Desalination Research Facility sent its portable reverse osmosis (RO) membrane purification system to Biloxi Mississippi to provide drinking water to 40,000 local inhabitants. The unit can produce 200,000 gallons per day of drinkable ...
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Almar Water Solutions at the center of the water and climate change debate
Almar Water Solutions, a leading company in developing and managing water infrastructure and services, participated this week in the IDA Seville Summit on Water and Climate Change held in Seville, Spain. The company sponsored the Welcome Reception held at the city’s Royal Alcazar, which included an exclusive visit to the palace by conference delegates, a cocktail reception, and a flamenco ...
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Cross-flow Membrane Market to Exceed $11 Billion by 2016
The market for cross-flow membrane components and systems will exceed $11 billion in 2016. This is the latest forecast in McIlvaine RO, UF, MF World Market. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) The largest segment of the market involves reverse osmosis (RO). The less efficient ultrafiltration and microfiltration segments are smaller in the aggregate than the RO portion. Desalination is the largest single ...
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West Basin’s Innovative Ocean Water Desalination Demonstration Facility to Begin Environmental and Energy Recovery Evaluation
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. - Investing in innovative marine protection technology and renewable energy sources, West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) is near completion on its new demonstration facility, formally dedicating the plant on Friday, November 12, 2010. The plant will be open to the public in a community “open house” on December 4th. The demonstration facility will ...
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Industrial pump revenues will exceed $38 billion next year
Sales of industrial pumps will exceed $38 billion in 2013 according to the latest forecasts in Pumps World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) Thirty-two percent of the market next year will be in East Asia. China will spend more for power plant pumps than the rest of the word combined. China will be the leading purchaser of pumps for municipal drinking water ...
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Hyflux secures premium in Galaxy NewSpring sale
Singaporean project developer Hyflux has agreed to an offer of US$136.5 million for its 50% interest in Galaxy NewSpring, a portfolio of 24 municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment plants in China. The buyer, Hong Kong-listed project developer Yunnan Water, recently agreed to pay Mitsui US$100 million for the remaining 50%. Yunnan Water will lend a further US$56 million to Galaxy ...
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Congressman Waxman Kicks-off South Bay Visit with West Basin Tour
Congressman Henry Waxman (D - Calif.) visited the Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility, owned by West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin), for a Water Reliability 2020 briefing on Tuesday, August 7, 2012. The facility, the only one of its kind in the world, produces 30 million gallons a day of five different types of recycled waters for industrial, ...
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Cross-flow Membrane Market to Reach $10 Billion by 2010
The market for cross-flow membrane modules and equipment to purify water and other liquids will grow from $7.6 billion in 2006 to in excess of $10 billion in 2010. This is the most recent forecast in the online McIlvaine Company report, RO/UF/MF World Markets. The cross-flow membrane market is divided into three major segments. The largest is reverse osmosis (RO) accounting for 50 percent ...
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