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California startup makes plans to install second desal device
September 19, 2009
Tustin, Calif-based DXV Water Technologies is planning to move into the second installation of its deep-sea desalination device in a matter of weeks.
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Deep-sea desal device prototype installed
September 14, 2009
NEWPORT BEACH, CA — A prototype of a deep-sea desalination device has been installed at the bottom of the San Joaquin Reservoir here, The Orange County Register reported September 3. The prototype relies on the intense pressures found deep in the ocean to push seawater through an array of membranes, then pump the purified water to the surface.
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Torrents of fresh water — from the ocean deep?
September 3, 2009
A pair of Tustin entrepreneurs is now testing a deep-sea device they say could radically change the way salt is separated from seawater – vastly reducing the cost by using far less energy than present-day systems.
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Depth Exposed Membrane for Water Extraction
August 19, 2009
DXV Water Technologies designed a novel membrane system that uses natural pressure, a very low recovery rate and gravity flow of feedwater past the membrane surface, microfiltration or ultrafiltration resulting in an elegant, efficient system.
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California Water Crisis Hearing on August 21st
August 2, 2009
DXV Water Technologies to present at California Select Committee hearing on regional solutions to the water crisis
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Water Chats -- DXV Desalination
February 11, 2009
"Because DXV's system uses 1/3 the energy of current systems, it produces water at half the total cost (capital costs are the same), i.e., $0.50/m3. DXV's cost will ALWAYS be lower than on-shore, high-pressure desal because both technologies use the same filters. It's the method of holding the filters that differs."
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Water Desalinization Report - A new approach to Deep sea RO
August 18, 2008
"Using vertically–oriented, flat sheet membrane elements, DEMWAX employs the natural pressure differential that occurs at depths of more than 850 feet (260m) to overcome the osmotic and transmembrane pressures required to drive the process."
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Singapore Water Week convention programme published
March 1, 2010 4:00 pmThe advance programme for the Singapore Water Week convention is now available for download on the event website.
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Pedal-powered nanofiltration kits sent to Haiti
February 28, 2010 4:00 pmResearchers from the Department of Environmental Science & Engineering at South Korea's Gwangju
Institute of Science & Technology (GIST) sent several human-powered nanofiltration (NF) water-
treatment systems to the earthquake victims of Haiti in January.
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Brine concentrate reports published by Bureau of Reclamation
February 28, 2010 4:00 pmReports deriving from the Southern California Regional Brine-Concentrate Management Study -
Phase 1 have been made available on the website of the US Bureau of Reclamation (USBR).
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Santa Clara votes for advanced wastewater reuse plant
February 25, 2010 4:00 pmThe directors of the Santa Clara Valley Water District in California, USA, approved two agreements
with the City of San Jose on 23 February 2010 to build a new advanced water treatment facility
involving microfiltration, reverse osmosis and ultraviolet disinfection.
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European thoughts on economics of coastal management
February 25, 2010 4:00 pmD&WR readers involved in environmental studies for seawater desalination plants may be
interested in a series of briefings just published via the European Union's Science for Environmental Policy website under the heading Coastal
Management.
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Hyflux to build Singapore's largest MBR plant
February 24, 2010 4:00 pmSingapore's largest membrane bioreactor (MBR) plant is to be built by Hyflux Ltd under a Sing$ 35.8
million (US$ 25.4 million) contract announced on 23 February 2010.
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Biwater desalination award in British Virgin Islands
February 24, 2010 4:00 pmBiwater (BVI) Limited was awarded a BOOT contract on 19 February 2010 by the Government of the
British Virgin Islands for a seawater desalination plant.
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ITT donates five RO-based treatment units to Haiti
February 24, 2010 4:00 pmITT Corporation announced on 22 February 2010 that, through its partnership with Mercy Corps,
the company is donating five portable water treatment systems in Haiti, providing enough potable
water each day for up to 200,000 victims of the 12 January 2010 earthquake.
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PM opens eight Iraqi desalination plants
February 24, 2010 4:00 pmIraq's prime minister, Nouri Al-Maliki, inaugurated eight desalination plants in southern Basra on
20 February 2010, according to the Awat al-Iraq news agency.
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Japanese trio to challenge European water contract domination
February 24, 2010 4:00 pmThree major Japanese companies have launched a joint venture to challenge European companies
for major contracts in the international water sector, including desalination, reuse and purification.
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Low-temperature distillation technology licensed to Sterling Water
February 24, 2010 4:00 pmThe low-temperature distillation method of desalination developed by the New Mexico State
University (NMSU) in the USA has been licensed to Sterling Water LLC of Qatar.
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IDA announces four new desalination events
February 24, 2010 4:00 pmThe International Desalination Association (IDA) announced four new events on 22 February 2010,
including its next World Congress in Perth, Australia, which will be held during 4-9 September
2011.
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A View Beyond the Horizon
February 23, 2010 4:00 pm
The Caribbean Desalination Association 2nd Conference on Desalination and Water Reuse
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Design software upgrade includes hybrid RO desalination
February 16, 2010 4:00 pmDesign of a hybrid reverse-osmosis (RO) system is included in the latest version of Woongjin
Chemical Co's latest version of its CSMPro desalination system design software.
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Algerian Desalination Market Developments
March 9, 2010 9:00 amIn the current market situation, where the financial crisis has frozen most project finance, Algeria maintains its commitments to develop a desalination infrastructure and continues to pursue a milestone program of desalination capacity building which sits among the most ambitious in industry history.
By 2011, 13 seawater desalination projects with a total capacity of 2.26 million m /d will be developed in Algeria, contributing to what is probably one of the largest growths in national capacity in...
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Tampa finally hits its marks
February 15, 2010 4:00 pmOriginally commissioned in 2003, the Tampa Bay seawater desalination plant in Florida, USA, has
finally met the targets for which it was designed.
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Shuqaiq II desalination plant ahead of schedule
February 15, 2010 4:00 pmThe US$ 1.87 billion Shuqaiq II Independent Power and Water Project (IWPP) in Saudi Arabia will be
completed before May 2010, the date scheduled for commercial operation.
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Work starts on Salalah desalination and power plant in Oman
February 15, 2010 4:00 pmThe groundbreaking ceremony for the US$ 1 billion Salalah Independent Water and Power Plant
(Salalah IWPP) in Oman took place on 10 February 2010.
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El Paso to explore solar power for desalination plant
February 14, 2010 4:00 pmThe City of El Paso Public Service Board voted on 10 February 2010 to explore the
possibility of using solar power at the Kay Bailey Hutchison desalination plant in Texas, USA.
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Looking back on two years of change in desalination
March 9, 2010 9:00 am
At the start of Lisa Henthorne's presidency, at the Maspolomas Congress in 2007, the board of the International Desalination Association initiated a five-year Strategic Plan. Already parts of the plan, such as better public relations, membership growth, including a Young Leaders program, and the new IDA Journal are all up and running.
D&WR asks Henthorne if she achieved everything she had set out to do.
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