The first large-scale desalination plant to turn seawater into drinking water for homes and businesses in the UK will open today in the latest sign of growing concern about water stress in the country’s most populated regions. (more…)
Iraqi Minister of Municipalities and Public Works Riad Ghareeb said on Saturday that US$41 million had been allocated to import 350 solar-powered water desalination units in an effort to provide rural areas with drinking water, reports the Aswat Aliraq news agency. (more…)
Seawater desalination technology is being used at the Hongyanhe nuclear power station under construction in Wafangdian City in northeast China’s Liaoning Province. (more…)
An amended and restated memorandum of agreement relating to the proposed Coquina Coast Seawater Desalination Project in Florida, USA, was agreed by Palm Coast city council, the project leader, on 15 June 2010. (more…)
Water saving is likely to play an important part in the future of our nation’s capital, according to London Assembly member Darren Johnson. (more…)
The San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) board of directors on 10 June 2010 unanimously approved taking the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California to court over the 2011 and 2012 water rates MWD adopted in April. (more…)
SDL Desalination Ltd has won a government tender competition to build Israel’s largest desalination plant, its parent company said on Tuesday. (more…)
Mexico is looking for funding to build a desalination plant in Ensenada, Baja California, to supply drinking water to 96,000 people. (more…)
A Canadian startup has built a pilot desalination plant in Vancouver that uses a quarter of the energy of conventional plants to remove salt from seawater. (more…)
Desalination will change the way many Sydneysiders take to water. And it is about to start flowing. Graphic by Remi Bianchi, words by Brian Robins. (more…)