Desal Data News | United States of America

Guinea desalination project changes hands

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00

Nevada-based Dhanoa Minerals Ltd is to acquire a 75% majority interest in a 5 MGD (19,000 m³/d) seawater desalination project in the Republic of Guinea in West Africa. The company announced on 26 January 2012 that it had signed a…

Santa Cruz desalination EIR scheduled for April

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00

Santa Cruz City Council in California, USA, approved a fifth contract on 24 January 2012 with consultant Kennedy/Jenks for work on its proposed seawater desalination plant. The US$ 95,000 contract covers public outreach work related to the environmental impact report…

SDCWA confirms Carlsbad agreement 'by spring'

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00

San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) in California confirmed on 26 January 2012 that a water purchase agreement for the Carlsbad seawater desalination plant would be available for comment ‘by this spring’. Director of Water Resources Ken Weinberg said he…

Carlsbad ‘final’ schedule taking shape

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00

Last week, San Diego County Water Authority’s staff told its Board of Directors that it was making progress towards finalizing a draft agreement with Poseidon Resources to purchase water from the Carlsbad Desal Project. Ken Weinberg, the Authority’s Director of…

Waste-to-energy plant will get RO

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00

Biwater AEWT has been selected to supply a 2 MGD (7,570 m³/d) BWRO system at Pinellas County Utilities’ waste-to-energy (WTE) facility in St Petersburg, Florida. The solid waste facility will use the RO system to treat water from an existing…

Consistently inconsistent

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00

For new readers and those regular readers who may be mystified by WDR’s use of various units of measure in our stories, we offer the following explanation: Nothing illustrates the local complexion of the global desal market more than the…

Desal advocacy group formed

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00

Prompted by the state’s recent drought and the resulting water shortages, desal boosters have formed the Texas Desalination Association (TDA), a non-profit trade organization that will focus on developing mechanisms for making desalination more accessible. Kyle Frazier, an agent for…

NWRI accepts nominations for 19th Annual Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00

The National Water Research Institute (NWRI) will accept nominations for its 19th Annual Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize for excellence in water research. The Prize is awarded to individuals contributing towards the discovery, development, improvement and/or understanding of the issues…

NanoH2O launch new membrane projection software

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00

NanoH2O has released Version 1.2 of its Q+ membrane projection software. The new version provides an option for permeate split flow calculations and the ability to convert the results report into PDF formats. The software can be downloaded at www.nanoh2o.com/software-tools.

Santa Cruz council OKs contract for proposed desalination plant's environmental report

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00

A contract for a Santa Cruz seawater desalting plant’s environmental report has been approved by the City Council. Water Department director Bill Kocher says the $95,000 contract with a San Francisco-based consultant covers work on the project’s Environmental Impact Report…

CalAm changes course in Monterey

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00

After six months of mediation with two public agency partners, California American Water (CalAm) has withdrawn its support of the Regional Desalination Project (RDP) agreements. The company had proposed the project in a partnership with the Marina Coast Water District…

Space agency to lease reuse test unit

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00

NASA’s Ames Research Center is soliciting offers for a ‘ready-to-use’ electrodialysis metathesis (EDM) system for testing water recovery systems and processes for future use on board of the International Space Station (ISS). The system, which will serve as a proof…

Paper outlines DPR’s benefits

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00

A white paper on direct potable reuse (DPR) entitled Direct Potable Reuse: Benefits for Public Water Supplies, Agriculture, the Environment and Energy Conservation has been published by the National Water Research Institute (NWRI). The paper focuses on DPR’s role…

Read with Caution

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00

Desalination can be a difficult subject to cover, even for some technical publications. The following are recent examples of misleading or inaccurate coverage: On reducing energy by 74%: An early January story in an online publication carried the rather dramatic…

Construction of Groundwater Replenishment System project expansion starts

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00

Last week, the Orange County Water District’s (OCWD) Board of Directors and General Manager Mike Markus officially broke ground on the 30 MGD (113,550 m³/d) initial expansion of the Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS). The project will have a total nominal…