THE Federal Department of Environment will assess the proposal to construct a desalination plant at Binningup, south of Perth.
28/05/2008
The Development Assessment Commission of South Australia has approved the planning of a pilot desalination plant at Port Stanvac.
27/05/2008
SPANISH firm ACCIONA Agua, one of the companies constructing South Australia’s $1.37b desalination plant at Port Stanvac, has been recognised with a Global Water Intelligence (GWI) Award.
12/05/2009
DOW Water and Process Solutions (DW&PS) will supply its FILMTEC reverse osmosis elements to the new Southern Seawater Desalination Plant (SSDP) in Perth.
09/11/2009
THE WATER Corporation claims after three years, Perth’s Kwinana desalination plant is now exceeding performance expectations.
14/01/2010
WESTERN Australia has moved a step closer to building a second desalination plant, after the $955m project was approved by the state’s Environmental Protection Authority and Environment Minister, Donna Faragher.
29/04/2009
THE SOUTH Australian Government opened the $10m pilot desalination plant at Port Stanvac on 4 August 2008.
06/08/2008
THE QUEENSLAND Government is expecting the $1.2b Tugun Gold Coast Desalination Plant to be operating by the end of this month.
03/07/2009
THE APPEALS Convenor of Western Australia, Anthony Sutton, will asses over ten appeals against the proposed Binningup desalination plant following its approval by the state’s environmental watchdog.
22/10/2008
THE El Prat de Llobregat desalination plant in Barcelona, Spain has been officially opened.
05/08/2009
QUEENSLAND’s Tugun Desalination Plant will temporarily stop producing water to allow final works to occur.
31/05/2010
THE QUEENSLAND Government has announced the Gold Coast Tugun Desalination Plant will be shut down later in April for scheduled repair works and part replacements, two months after its delayed start.
21/04/2009
RUSTY pipe joints and faulty water valves at the Queensland Government's Tugun desalination plant are causing headaches for the project’s contractors.
14/01/2009
FINAL testing has begun at Sydney’s wind powered desalination plant as part of the NSW Government’s Sydney’s Metropolitan Water Plan.
28/01/2010
EXXON Mobil has agreed to allow the South Australian Government to build a pilot desalination plant at their mothballed Port Stanvac refinery site.
24/06/2008
SOUTH Australian Greens MP Mark Parnell has been accused of running a scare campaign to raise concerns about Adelaide’s proposed desalination plant.
19/09/2008
ENERGY Recovery’s PX pressure exchanger devices have been selected for use in the expansion of Palmachim’s 115 000 cubic metre desalination plant, one of the largest seawater reverse osmosis plants in Israel.
14/09/2009
ENDRESS+HAUSER is one of three key members to be selected to engineer and supply instrumentation for the automation and control of Sydney Water’s desalination plant.
24/11/2009
THE QUEENSLAND Government plan to triple the capacity of the Gold Coast Tugun Desalination Plant has been met with criticism from the local residents and councillors.
18/03/2009
THE SOUTH Australian Government has announced that a consortium of four companies has been contracted to build Adelaide's $1.4b desalination plant.
20/02/2009