Water Management

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted $388,000 to Pottawatomie County for new sewers to connect the Blue Township Sewer District to the Manhattan, Kansas, waste water treatment plant.

Tri-Tech Holding, a Chinese company that engineers, manages and monitors municipal sewer systems, natural waterways and other water resources, has established new offices in the US and India and has developed a new research and development (R&D) base in Tianjin, China.

Air Products, a supplier of industrial gases and equipment and energy systems, said that its manufacturing facility in Santa Clara, California, has installed a new water treatment system that uses recycled water instead of potable water in its industrial cooling process.

ITT, a engineering and manufacturing company, has won a $32m contract from Larsen & Toubro (L&T) for the Phase II extension of Qatar’s Doha South Sewage Treatment Works.

Oasys Water, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based company developing a suite of proprietary energy and resource recovery products, has commercialized a forward osmosis (FO) membrane as a next step towards the introduction of disruptive, lower cost desalination and water reuse technology.

PPL Generation in association with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has started a new program that will help preserve the Lackawaxen River as a cold water fishery, in order to enhance river conditions for trout maintenance, growth and survival.

NanoH2O, a provider of membranes for desalination and water reuse, has received a $400,000 grant from the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) to evaluate its high-flux membranes for shipboard desalination systems.

Skanska has said that it will lead the construction of a groundwater treatment plant in Hanford, in Washington State in the US for CH2M HILL, a company involved in the energy, chemicals and environmental sectors.

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has said that its water technology business unit has secured an international turnkey project worth QAR691.2m from Public Works Authority, Qatar (ASHGHAL) for Advanced Waste Water Treatment and Urban Reuse.

Flowserve, a provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, has bagged an order for Calder Dual Work Exchanger Energy Recovery (DWEER) units with an approximate value of $10m for the Sorek seawater desalination plant.