September 23, 2020, Boston, MA – The IDRA Industrial Water Advisory Committee in partnership with the IDRA Young Leaders has curated for the IDRA Academy a series of six (6) webinars focused on addressing the diverse issues facing industrial water users. This IDRA Academy webcast series is free to IDRA members and open to all stakeholders for a...
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has completed the longest water pipeline tunnel project in the world, with a diameter of 8.4 meters and a distance of 12.5 km. The tunnel will pump desalinated water from the Al-Shuaiba desalination plant on the Red Sea coast to the Taif governorate and the villages...
Saudi Water Partnership Company has published their seven year future projects statement in order to inform stakeholders about public private partnership projects portfolio which contains water production, transportation, storage, and wastewater treatment. Please see the statement in the link provided below. SWPC 7 Year planning Statement – (2020 – 2026) Eng
September 14, 2020, Boston, MA – The International Desalination and Reuse Association will help execute India Water Innovation Week (IWIW), in conjunction with Smart Water & Waste World and InDA as the official desalination partner. IWIW is a 6-day webcast series created exclusively for the Indian water audience around different topics in water and wastewater. It...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Desalination Technology Research Institute of SWCC (DTRI) has recently developed a state-of-the-art brine concentration/Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) technology. The Dual Brine Concentrator enables cost effective mining of valuable minerals from brine generated by desalination plants. The market-readiness of this technology is currently demonstrated at DTRI’s testing facility in Jubail which produces...
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. (August 20, 2020) – The Orange County Water District (OCWD; the District) was awarded $5 million in grants from the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) Division of Financial Assistance for use toward the construction of the District’s Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS) Final Expansion project. OCWD was selected based upon the increased...
August 17, 2020, Boston, MA – The International Desalination and Reuse Association flagship event returns to Australia a decade later from the 2011 IDRA World Congress in Perth. The World Congress will take place during the week of November 7-11, 2021, in the strikingly beautiful city of Sydney, Australia at the International Convention Center Sydney (ICC...
Published on IDRA Global Connections Summer 2020 Issue By Mr. Fermin Lopez Unzu The Mediterranean area of Spain is characterized by hot dry summers and mild wet winters with periods of intense rainfall in spring and autumn. The water cycle associated to this Mediterranean climate frequently results in droughts and floods. This region is also...
Published on IDRA Global Connections Summer 2020 Issue By Mr. Gavin van Tonder NEOM is a region in northwest Saudi Arabia. On the shores of the Red Sea, it being built from the ground up to serve as a living laboratory to help solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Founded on the principles...
Tokyo, Japan, July 28, 2020 – Toray Industries, Inc. is pleased to announce that a large-scale wastewater treatment facility has started purifying water with Toray’s latest UF membrane technology. The wastewater facility located in Wuxi New District, an industrial park in Wuxi, China, was built by GreenTech Environmental Co., Ltd., a leading provider of advanced...
