ACWA Power’s Market Value Climbs to $34.9 Billion as Saudi Water and Energy Giant Expands Beyond the Gulf
By John — Desalination News ACWA Power, the Saudi utility developer behind dozens of desalination and power plants across the…
Sultan Qaboos University Study Maps What Drives Harmful Algal Blooms Threatening Oman’s Desalination Plants
By John — Desalination News A multi-year research project at Oman’s Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) has mapped the oceanographic and…
Kerala Forms Expert Committee to Study Desalination for Drought-Hit Coastal Villages
By John — Desalination News Kerala’s government has formed a 13-member expert committee to study whether seawater desalination can finally…
Investigation: Corpus Christi’s Industrial Water Deal Drove Desalination Costs From $140 Million to $1.2 Billion
By John — Desalination News A joint investigation by Inside Climate News and The Texas Newsroom, published this week by…
Sacyr-Led Consortium Details Plan to Pipe Desalinated Water From Mexico to Arizona
By John — Desalination News Spanish construction and engineering group Sacyr is leading a feasibility study for a seawater desalination…
Chinese Desalination Plant Cuts Energy Use by 60% While Turning Waste Brine Into Industrial Salt
By John — Desalination News A desalination facility in the Caofeidian industrial zone of Tangshan, in China’s Hebei province on…
University of Texas Study Finds Desalination Could Help Cool Water-Hungry AI Data Centers
By John — Desalination News Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have published a study arguing that desalinating…
Energy Recovery Wins Contract to Supply Newest PX Q650 Devices to Top-10 Saudi Desalination Plant
By John — Desalination News Energy Recovery Inc., the California-based maker of pressure exchanger technology used to cut energy consumption…
Record Rio Grande Drought Pushes Texas and New Mexico to Weigh Desalination as a Water-Scarcity Lifeline
By John — Desalination News The Rio Grande, the 1,900-mile river that supplies drinking water to roughly 15 million people…
Cyprus Commits to €200 Million Water Push as Desalination Takes Center Stage Through 2030
By John — Desalination News Cyprus is carrying out more than €200 million in water and irrigation infrastructure projects through…
AIIB Approves $45 Million to Help Finance Azerbaijan’s First Large-Scale Desalination Plant
By John — Desalination News The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved $45 million in non-sovereign financing for Azerbaijan’s…
Arizona Advances Second Gulf of California Desalination Study as Acciona-Fengate Alliance Eyes Mexico Water Swap
By John — Desalination News Arizona’s Water Infrastructure Finance Authority (WIFA) board voted on October 5 to fund feasibility studies…
Second Power Outage in a Week Knocks Out Lanzarote’s Desalination Plants, Straining Island’s Water Supply
By John — Desalination News Lanzarote’s desalination network was knocked offline for the second time in a week on October…
Israel Spent $15 Million Stockpiling Desalination Membranes as Algae Crisis Lingers
By John — Desalination News Israel’s government has spent roughly 45 million shekels (about $15 million) stockpiling replacement reverse osmosis…
Western Australia Reverses Course, Confirms Esperance Desalination Plant Likely Needed
By John — Desalination News Western Australia’s state government has reversed its position on a desalination plant for the southern…