Stantec, a global leader in sustainable design and engineering, has been named Engineer of Record providing engineering support during construction for the second phase of the Gross Reservoir Expansion (GRE) Project in Boulder County, Colorado. The US$531 million project will raise the height of the existing concrete curved gravity dam by 131 feet, increasing the...
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Schlumberger Partners with Gradiant to Deliver Sustainable Production of Battery-Grade Lithium Compounds
Schlumberger announced today that it has entered into a partnership with Gradiant, a global water solutions provider, to introduce a key sustainable technology into the production process for battery-grade lithium compounds. As part of Schlumberger’s NeoLith Energy direct lithium extraction (DLE) and production flowsheet, Gradiant technology is used to concentrate the lithium solution and generate...
The Umm Al Houl desalination plant in Qatar reaches one million hours without accidents
The desalination plant designed, built and operated by ACCIONA for the last 6 years supplies more than 3 million people The desalination plant at Umm Al Houl in Doha, Qatar, has completed one million hours without any accidents involving lost time injury (Zero LTI) thanks to the great efforts of its workers and the safety...
NEOM plans to build desalination plant to combat water scarcity
Peter Terium, CEO of ENOWA, told Arab News last week, that NEOM, Saudi Arabia’s smart and sustainable city, will construct a water desalination plant by 2024 to tackle water scarcity. ENOWA is currently leading the development of NEOM’s avant-garde, sustainable energy and water systems. During the Future Desalination International Conference, which took place in Riyadh, Terium told...
H2O Innovation Awarded $12.0 M of New Water Treatment Projects
H2O Innovation Inc. (“H2O Innovation” or the “Corporation”) is pleased to announce that its Water Technologies & Services (WTS) business line has recently been awarded 10 new water treatment projects. These new contracts, with a total value of $12.0 M, bring the WTS backlog to $46.0 M. The new projects are coming from four municipal customers and six...
DEWA partners with Desolenator to build desalination system based on solar thermal energy
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has signed a partnership agreement with Dutch startup Desolenator BV, to build a sustainable, carbon-neutral water purification and desalination system based on solar thermal energy. The innovative design is intended to be 100% reliant on solar energy at a target Levelized Cost of potable water production to be less than US$0.02 per...
IDE Water Technologies Invests in R&D, Sustainability in Seawater Desalination and Water Treatment
IDE’s investment increases focus on energy, carbon management, resource recovery fields IDE Technologies, a world leader in desalination and water treatment solutions, today announced an increased investment and focus on the sustainability of seawater desalination and water treatment facilities by driving momentum behind research and development efforts in fields that are adjacent and complimentary to...
ACCIONA leads initiative for integrated & sustainable production of water, energy in desalination
ACCIONA, as part of its commitment to sustainability and availability of water (SDG6), launches the LIFE INDESAL project, aiming to increase energy efficiency of seawater desalination, the generation of renewable energy from brine and the transformation of the brine into chemicals needed within the desalination process itself, making the paradigm of the circular economy and...
DEWA records growth of 73.6% in smart water meters between 2018 and 2022
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) recorded a growth in the number of smart water meters by 73.6% between 2018 and 2022. The number of smart meters increased from 566,214 meters in August 2018 to 983,185 meters in August 2022, designed according to the highest technical standards. DEWA has a secure and automated infrastructure to...
IDE Technologies Announces Success of First Demo Facility in Texas, Achieving Overall Recovery of 96%
IDE Technologies, a world leader in desalination and water treatment solutions, today announced the success of its demo facility in the state of Texas. The facility tested IDE’s proprietary MAXH2O Pulse Flow Reverse Osmosis (PFRO) technology for treating concentrated RO brine discharge, thus maximizing the recovery of high-quality water to achieve an overall recovery of 96...