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American Water, an investor-owned US water and wastewater utility company, has said that its subsidiary, Applied Water Management, has secured a $3.4m contract from Home Properties to build a wastewater treatment plant in Islip, New York.

Lamont in Bolivar County, Massachusetts, has started construction on a wastewater treatment system costing approximately $1m, which includes approximately $500,000 grant from US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Kemira, a water chemicals company, has said that it is starting a research and development cooperation with the Singapore Membrane Technology Centre (SMTC) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), which aims to enhance used water treatment and purification.

Siemens Water Technologies has introduced a new pre-engineered reverse osmosis (RO) systems for treating seawater, brackish waters and high salinity wastewaters.

Sembcorp, an energy, water and marine company, has planned to construct an integrated industrial wastewater treatment plant in the Tembusu district of Singapore’s Jurong island to provide wastewater treatment services for a butyl rubber facility owned by German specialty chemicals company Lanxess.

Siemens Water Technologies and Aramco Overseas Company, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, have entered into a patent and technology license agreement for the commercialization of the EcoRight membrane bioreactor (MBR), a new wastewater treatment and water reuse system.

ITT, a company engaged in the transport and treatment of water and wastewater business, and the PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to conduct a research and technology testing program to develop new water and wastewater treatment systems.

Calgon Carbon, a Pennsylvania- based provider of services and solutions related to air and water, has bagged a $2.4m contract to provide an ultraviolet (UV) disinfection system for the Richard Miller Water Treatment Plant UV Disinfection facility in the City of Cincinnati, Ohio.

The global desalination investment will double from $8.3bn in 2010 to $16.6bn per year by 2016, representing cumulative spending of $87.8bn during that period, as the demand for the supply of fresh water for industrial, agricultural, and domestic use is increasing and the cost of desalination steadily decreasing, says a new report from Pike Research.