March 2014 Pump Industry Analyst3

United Envirotech to build China’s largest MBR wastewater treatment plant

United Envirotech Ltd has been awarded an engineering

procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Fujian Haixia Environmental Protection Co Ltd to construct a 200 000 m3/day municipal wastewater treatment plant in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, China.

The plant will be the largest wastewater treatment facility using membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology in China.

Fujian Haixia is a wholly owned subsidiary of the state owned enterprise Fuzhou Water Investment and Development Co Ltd.

Severn Trent Services enters wastewater partnerships in Connecticut and Pennsylvania

Bridgeport, Connecticut’s Water Pollution Control Authority

(WPCA) has selected Severn Trent Services to provide long-term operation, maintenance, management and customer services for its wastewater collection and treatment systems through a public-private partnership.

The 10-year contract includes two subsequent five-year options.

The WPCA system has two wastewater treatment facilities with a total treatment capacity of 40 million gallons per day, 10 sewage pump stations, and 283 miles of sewers.

Meanwhile, Severn Trent Services will provide operations and maintenance services for the Johnstown Redevelopment Authority’s Dornick Point Wastewater Treatment Plant (DPWWTP) in Johnstown, Pennsylvania through a public-private partnership. The five-year contract will deliver anticipated savings of nearly US$500 000 per year in operating costs for the DPWWTP.

Advanced Mem-Tech raises US$5mn in capital

Israeli membrane filtration company Advanced Mem-Tech

has completed a financing round of close to US$5 million.

Investors in this round are a US group led by Uzi Halevy, and SEB Alliance, Groupe SEB’s corporate venture company.

Advanced Mem-Tech, a portfolio company of Trendlines Agtech, develops membrane filtration processes used in water treatment.

The filtration membranes, characterized by a high flow, separate solids from water during the treatment and purification of wastewater and clean water environmental contamination.

Moshe Kelner, CEO of Advanced Mem-Tech, said: “We’re currently in negotiations to implement and market our technology in a number of relevant applications with various companies from Europe and the US. The membranes we developed have real potential to optimise the water purification process and provide clean water while reducing energy consumption and the ecological footprint left by the process on the environment.”

World Energy Council teams up with World Water Council to focus on water-energy nexus

The World Energy Council (WEC) and the World Water Council

(WWC) have joined forces to bring the issue of the water-energy nexus to the fore in the run-up to the 7th World Water Forum, to be staged in April 2015 in Daegu, Korea.

WEC and WWC commit to work together to build an integrated programme at the 7th World Water Forum, taking place 12–17 April 2015 in Daegu, and to ensure that the water-energy nexus will be highlighted at the next World Energy Congress, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey in 2016.

Both of these events will build on the expertise and content provided by the members of both organisations, many of which are already working on solutions to the water-energy nexus issue.

The World Water Forum is the world’s largest water-related event, aimed at putting

water firmly on the international agenda. It is organised every three years by the World Water Council in collaboration with the authorities of the host country.

The World Energy Congress is WEC’s triennial flagship event.

DESALINATION

Desalitech partners with Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies

Desalitech Inc and Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies are

negotiating a partnership agreement to bring water solutions to Mexico and additional countries worldwide.

The intended partnership brings together Veolia’s commercial, technical and execution strengths with Desalitech’s leadership in high efficiency RO water treatment and wastewater reuse.

The two companies have already been collaborating in Mexico and the US and will now build on this cooperation.

“Here at Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, it is of utmost importance to recognise our customers’ needs and provide the tools to help them solve problems. We are pleased to incorporate Desalitech’s technologies which complement Veolia’s existing range of 350 state-of-the-art technologies” said Luis Maturana CEO, Latin America - Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies.

Desalitech’s products include patented Closed Circuit Desalination Reverse Osmosis (CCD-RO) systems.

EU funds E10mn desalination plant in Gaza

Construction work has started on a major seawater desalination plant

that will provide 75 000 Palestinians with safe drinking water in Gaza.

The project, to be implemented by UNICEF with a E10 million grant from the European Union, will provide 6000m3 of desalinated seawater per day, to serve residents in Khan Yunis and Rafah in southern Gaza, and is being installed on land adjacent to the sea near Deir al-Balah.

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