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GE Makes Critical Investment in Southern California Seawater ...  -  25 May 2007
Business Wire (press release),For more information on Poseidon Resources and the Carlsbad desalination plant visit our Carlsbad website at www.carlsbad-desal.com and for information on

A great divide: desal plant will split Bay and opinions  -  May 23, 2007
The Leader - St. George Sutherland Shire Leader,By John Mulcair. PREMIER Morris Iemma's decision to dump the previous 30 per cent dams capacity trigger and accelerate the building of a $2 billion

Desal plant is on  -  May 21, 2007
The Leader - St. George Sutherland Shire Leader,By John Mulcair. THE people of Kurnell have challenged Premier Morris Iemma to come to their village, look them in the eye and tell them why a $2 billion

Desal plant is 'unnecessary'  -  May 21, 2007
The Leader - St. George Sutherland Shire Leader,By Murray Trembath. THE principal architect of the State Government's water plan has described the decision to build a desalination plant at a time of

Desal challenge  -  May 20, 2007
The Leader - St. George Sutherland Shire Leader,By John Mulcair and Murray Trembath. Months of political pretence about 30 per cent dam levels triggering construction of a desalination plant fell away at

CA city considers desal as solution to water woes  -  May 18, 2007
Water Technology Online,NIPOMO, CA — The Nipomo Community Services District is considering a $16 million desalination plant project that would use reverse osmosis to turn water

$16M cost estimated for Nipomo desal plant  -  May 19, 2007
San Luis Obispo Tribune,By Nick Wilson - nwilson@thetribunenews.com. A desalination plant that would use treated seawater to help alleviate a water shortage would cost nearly $16

Company puts case for Esperance desal plant  -  May 16, 2007
ABC Online,A company which wants to build a private desalination plant says it can deliver water to Western Australia's goldfields much quicker and cheaper than the

Premier defends new desal plant  -  May 15, 2007
The West Australian,Alan Carpenter today continued to sell the merits of building a second desalination plant at Binningup in favour of tapping the South-West Yarragadee

If desal plant goes up, consumers will pay  -  May 13, 2007
Monterey County Herald,The $250 million cost of California American Water's desal plant can buy us about 41 million pounds of trout, or 683 pounds for everyone on the Peninsula

Giant desal plant will push up water prices  -  May 15, 2007
The West Australian,WA will have a second desalination plant at an estimated cost of almost $1 billion after the State Government bowed to political pressure yesterday and

WA dumps aquifer plan for desal plant  -  May 14, 2007
NEWS.com.au,WESTERN Australia has shelved controversial plans to tap a southwest aquifer to supply Perth's water in favour of building a second seawater desalination

Desal plan avoids potential disaster: Opposition  -  May 15, 2007
The West Australian,The State Opposition has claimed victory over the Carpenter Government which today backed down on plans to tap the South West Yarragadee aquifer to meet

State govt opts for second desal plant costing $955m  -  May 14, 2007
WA Business News (subscription),The state government has sprung a surprise by selecting a second desalination plant as Western Australia's next major water source, instead of developing

Desalting decisions  -  May 24, 2007
New Times SLO,For a desal plant producing three million gallons of drinkable water a day, or roughly 3000 acre-feet a year, the cost of construction plus operation and

Bligh plays down desal environmental fears  -  May 8, 2007
ABC Online,Queensland's Acting Premier says there is no scientific basis to concerns about a desalination plant's effect on the Gold Coast environment.

Desal plant delay 'will cost millions"  -  May 8, 2007
Advertiser Adelaide,OPPOSITION Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith is convinced desalination is the "water technology of the future" after returning from a tour of Perth's new

Govt ponders other desal plants  -  May 5, 2007
Trinidad News,Saying a proposal for additional desal plants was “definitely on the table�, Beckles added, “I have forwarded to the Prime Minister certain recommendations

Vic desal proposal  -  May 7, 2007
Sky News Australia,Victoria's on the verge of getting its first water desalination plant to battle dwindling supplies and the Bracks government is looking at overseas models

Sydney tastes desal future  -  May 1, 2007
Daily Telegraph,Sydney's desal plant, to be built at Botany Bay, is nearing the final stages of approval, with two consortia now left in the race to build the facility.

Our desal 'triples' WA price  -  May 4, 2007
Courier Mail,By Tuck Thompson. WESTERN Australia paid only $367 million for a desalination plant producing the same amount of water as Queensland's $1.12 billion Tugun

TRENCH WAR: Desal pipeline angers many  -  Apr 30, 2007
The Leader - St. George Sutherland Shire Leader,By Murray Trembath. A FOUR metre-deep trench will be dug across the bottom of Botany Bay from Kurnell to Kyeemagh to allow twin pipes from the desalination

Water, water everywhere  -  May 19, 2007
Sunday Times.au,Knowing that the Yarragadee proposal was controversial and might fall over, why weren't plans for a second desal plant put to the EPA a long time ago?

Judge won't halt desal plant  -  Apr 27, 2007
Monterey County Herald,By KEVIN HOWE. An injunction against California American Water's pilot desalination project at Moss Landing was denied by Superior Court Judge Robert

The Water Crisis Solution: Will You Be Drinking Seawater?  -  May 16, 2007
NBC6.net,Tampa Bay's desal plant is mired in technical problems and cost overruns, and has yet to be put into full service. But the Key West desal plant has been

Lush lawns worsen drought conditions  -  May 16, 2007
Tampa Bay's 10,Then there's the controversial desal plant, pumping 19-million gallons of fresh water a day, but that only accounts for less than 10 percent of demand.

What's in our water? Foreign ownership  -  May 6, 2007
St. Petersburg Times,While most of the original companies that designed, built and tried to operate the desal plant are long gone, fired or bankrupt, the recent players are

Councils' cure for water crisis lies in pipeline  -  Apr 30, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,...[But] there's a section of the community against reuse and a section against desal, and we have to bring those people along with us."

Salty Solution?  -  Apr 30, 2007
Florida Trend,But as desal technology evolved, Florida remained at the cutting edge. In the 1950s, University of Florida chemist Charles Reid set up a primitive

From Doug Deitch  -  May 9, 2007
City on a Hill Press,However, our local costs include 90 percent of our yearly salt water intrusion water resource loss of $300 million (the equivalent of 7.5 new SC Desal

State water recipients put on alert  -  Apr 26, 2007
San Luis Obispo Tribune,Morro Bay officials said Wednesday they will ask the City Council in May to consider upgrading the desal plant so it can provide more supplemental water in

A Picture Painted Too Rosy  -  May 7, 2007
Voice of San Diego,...of fossil fuel these once thorough cooling systems use and at a time when the cost of fuel is skyrocketing, thus the enormous cost of desal water.

Govt stands by hold on water saving projects  -  May 1, 2007
ABC Online,..."Four options, desal, stormwater recycling, the north-south pipe which is a recent one put up by the Corboy group and also of course the pipeline to

Yarragadee water plan shelved  -  May 15, 2007
Sunday Times.au,..."The provision of water from desal two will take considerable pressure from the Gnangara mound,'' Mr Carpenter said. The two desalination plants will push

WA set for second desalination plant  -  May 15, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,..."The provision of water from desal two will take considerable pressure from the Gnangara mound," Mr Carpenter said. The two desalination plants will push up

Budget matters on tap  -  May 13, 2007
Fall River Herald News,...this year's Annual Water District meeting will feature 22 articles totaling $3.2 million in spending, with remnants of the desal facility all over it.

Push for power to make rainwater tanks compulsory  -  May 8, 2007
The Age,But he said Mr Brumby "didn't need to go to Dubai to check out a 'desal' plant, he only had to go to Perth … They have got one, it's providing 17 per cent

Spirapro elements lower operating costs  -  May 6, 2007
Laboratory Talk,Both TFC SR3 and TFC RO elements can be used to replace Nanomax membranes originally supplied by Millipore, or Desal membranes originally supplied by GE

Koch Membrane Systems Offers The Spirapro TFC SR3 And Reverse  -  May 4, 2007
Chemical Online.com (press release),Both TFC SR3 and TFC RO elements can be used to replace Nanomax membranes originally supplied by Millipore Corporation, or Desal membranes originally

Qld Govt urged to release desal plant reports  -  Apr 24, 2007
ABC Online,Queensland's Opposition has called on the State Government to release reports it commissioned on desalination options for the south-east.

FL desal plant: As lawsuit settled, water flows  -  Apr 18, 2007
Water Technology Online,TAMPA, FL — Tampa Bay Water, a water district with more than 2 million customers, on April 16 settled a lawsuit it filed in 2004 against contractors of the

Britain scraps plan for desal plant  -  Apr 18, 2007
Water Technology Online,LONDON — After wrapping up a two-year trial, British scientists said that a plan to convert water from the English Channel into drinking water is unfeasible

Carpenter hints at 'several' more desal plants  -  Apr 18, 2007
ABC Online,West Australian Premier Alan Carpenter says he has no doubt there will be several more desalination plants built along the state's coast in the future.

Lawsuit over desal plant finally settled  -  Apr 16, 2007
St. Petersburg Times,Both the surface water treatment plant and the desal plant were built so Tampa Bay Water could cut back on pumping water out of the ground.

How desal has helped our wells  -  Apr 14, 2007
Virginia Gazette,That’s because desal draws from a deeper aquifer than residential wells. This month marks the second anniversary of the desal plant at Five Forks.

SC island moves forward with desal facility  -  Apr 12, 2007
Water Technology Online,HILTON HEAD, SC — The Hilton Head Public Services District recently awarded Earth Tech Inc., a global consulting and engineering company, a $5.5 million

Govt has not considered new desal plant  -  Apr 10, 2007
Brisbane Times,The Queensland government says it has not considered a report which recommended the world's biggest desalination plant be built north of Brisbane.

Build desal plant now  -  Apr 11, 2007
NEWS.com.au,NEW State Opposition Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith has called on the Government to fast-track its plans to build a desalination plant in Adelaide.

Desal plant just another blight on nation's birthplace  -  Apr 6, 2007
Brisbane Times,...http://brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/desal-plant-just-another-blight-on-nations-birthplace/2007/04/06/1175366473990.html brisbanetimes.com.au

Build desal plant, not dam, Qld told  -  Apr 10, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,The Queensland government has been urged to dump its plans for a controversial dam and instead build another desalination plant to help secure the

Bribie best for desal plant  -  Apr 11, 2007
Courier Mail,By Craig Johnstone. THE world's biggest desalination plant should be built north of Brisbane to drought-proof southeast Queensland, a report commissioned by

Melb desal plant  -  Apr 7, 2007
Sky News Australia,Reports that one of the world's largest desalination plants could be built to help solve Melbourne's water crisis, have received a mixed response.

In dry times, desal plant pumps out good news  -  Apr 9, 2007
St. Petersburg Times,The facility has produced 20-million gallons in a few days. It now needs to pass a final test. By LETITIA STEIN. TAMPA - Tampa Bay's troubled desalination

Second desal ‘not until 2011’  -  Apr 5, 2007
The West Australian,A second desalination plant could not start supplying water to Perth until 2011, according to Water Resources Minister John Kobelke.

How to Fight the Drought? - Take Out the Salt!  -  Apr 22, 2007
HealthNewsDigest.com,Opponents of desal plant expansion include the typical NIMBY (not in my backyard) types, along with those who complain of the amount of energy necessary,

Rann urges PM for desal plant pledge  -  Apr 1, 2007
Advertiser Adelaide,..."We are currently negotiating with the federal government for a major commitment to join with us in funding that part of the desal plant that will provide

SA Govt to approve Olympic Dam desal plant  -  Apr 1, 2007
ABC Online,Mining company BHP Billiton will soon build a pilot desalination plant on South Australia's Upper Spencer Gulf, as part of its expansion plans for the

Desal plant just another blight on nation's birthplace  -  Apr 6, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,..."Best water around"...Ross and Kay Earle, who regularly drive up from Cronulla, rinse off after a morning dip in Kurnell's waters.

Chile SA desal  -  Apr 2, 2007
Sky News Australia,The green light has been given for a mini-desalination plant to be built, in South Australia's Spencer Gulf. If the pilot project works, a full-sized plant

Arizona RO desal facility takes test run  -  Mar 30, 2007
Water Technology Online,YUMA, AZ — For the first time since 1993 the Yuma Desalting Plant is back in operation — albeit at 10 percent capacity — for a three-month test run,

Plan for $1bn desal plant  -  Mar 31, 2007
Sunday Times.au,PLANS for a $1 billion desalination plant twice as big as one in Kwinana are being drawn up in case the state Government refuses to tap the South-West

Good Golly, It’s Moly  -  Apr 19, 2007
egoli.com.au,Large desal plants are currently under construction in Libya, Saudi Arabia and Dubai. The South Australian government is presently working with BHP Billiton

Damning scorecard for the Water Corp  -  Apr 20, 2007
Margaret River Online,For now telling the community that the Yg is the only project that it can get ready for 2009, when it could just as easily get up Desal 2, or others had it

New Report Forecasts the Future of the Global Desalination Market  -  Apr 17, 2007
Business Wire (press release),In addition to the paper report, buyers of Desal Markets 2007 will receive the complete dataset in Excel spreadsheet format on CD ROM.

Morro Bay won’t have to resort to tainted wells  -  Mar 31, 2007
San Luis Obispo Tribune,As well, the city will run the desal plant through the next state water shutdown to be prepared in case additional water is needed.

Whyalla council up-beat about cuttlefish future  -  Apr 16, 2007
ABC Regional Online,..."The proposed desal plant on the Lowly Peninsula is in close proximity to the cuttlefish colony, but let me say that there have been tests on the prawns,

Manning: Only one election this year  -  Apr 15, 2007
Trinidad News,...also promised that the district’s water situation would soon be rectified when the desal plant is brought back on stream within the next few days.

New Liberal leader wants desalination plant fast-tracked  -  Apr 11, 2007
ABC Online,..."We cannot afford to wait for two, three or four years while we think about building a desal plant here in Adelaide," he said.

Total ban likely on outdoor watering  -  Apr 20, 2007
Advertiser Adelaide,Before we siing the praise's of desal maybe we should ask what happens to the by producst. Lets not get carried away with the thinking that a desal plant

Pollies in `big bother' eviction  -  Apr 24, 2007
The Gold Coast Bulletin,..."It is hard to understand how the State Government did not build their own desal plant rather then take it over from the Gold Coast City Council," said Mr

SR120bn Projects Launched  -  Apr 17, 2007
Arab News,...located north of Riyadh, Binaa project with a capital investment of SR2 billion, Ras Al-Zour desal plant (which has a capacity to supply one million

King to Launch SR118bn Development Projects in Riyadh  -  Apr 15, 2007
Arab News,Other major projects to be launched tomorrow include the building materials market Bina, Ras Al-Zour desal plant, a water distribution network in Houtat

Change of leader to 'aid' in marginals  -  Apr 12, 2007
The Australian,..."And he hasn't explained where this new desal plant will be built and who is going to fund it." Mr Hamilton-Smith said he would name his new front bench

Saudi needs SR350b investment in water and electricity sectors  -  Apr 2, 2007
Middle East North Africa Financial Network,Al Hussayen said that it is planned to establish a new desal plant in Jeddah with a daily capacity of 200000 cubic metres. He estimated the amount of

Byron Buckley is definitely wrong this time!  -  Apr 1, 2007
Jamaica Observer,Send yours to desal@cwjamaica.com or 40 Beechwood Avenue, Kingston 5. Desmond Allen, aka the Spike, a 33-year veteran of journalism, is a former president

Other Bush turns COWs to cash  -  Mar 31, 2007
St. Petersburg Times,The Arab News didn't ask, and Bush didn't say, if he had any financial ties to delegation members hoping to cash in on the desal bonanza.

DUBAL achieves 100 per cent participation in employee suggestion ...  -  Mar 31, 2007
AME Info (press release),AS Jamshed and OC Thomas Jacob of Desal Operations won the award for their entry 'Avoid forced outage of evaporators' in the Energy Saving category.

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