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Make Sure You Visit SingSpring Sea Water Desalination Plant

PUB is organising a technical visit to the SingSpring Sea Water Desalination Plantat Tuas during SIWW.  We at Black & Veatch designed this plant for SingSpring (Hyflux) and were heavily involved in the project, including construction and start up from 2003 – 2005.      RO Feed Pumps and Membranes @ SingSpring The SWRO process includes : …

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Make Sure You Visit Chestnut Avenue Waterworks

PUB is organizing technical tours of various key and innovative water treatment facilities during SIWW. One such key installation, which is close to my heart is Chestnut Avenue Waterworks, which was designed by Black & Veatch and constructed to a fast track schedule between – all between September 2001 and Christmas Eve 2003.  I was …

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Singapore Well Placed to Help With Middle East Reuse?

Posted by: Gerry O’Toole According to a recently published report by Global Water Intelligence on the Middle East Water market, the  Middle East region is about to see a remarkable surge of investment into wastewater reuse.  It is predicted that total capital expenditure on wastewater will grow from US$5.3bn in 2009 to US$13.3 by 2016. …

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Sembcorp NEWater Plant – First Water As Predicted

Posted by Gerry O’Toole: As I predicted in a previous post the  Sembcorp NEWater Plant at Changi WRP has produced first water. This momentus event happened during the evening of June 3 2009, Singapore (GMT +8) and is a fantastic achievement by the combined Sembcorp/Black & Veatch project team. Congratulations to them all.  Hooray!

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Powering Seawater Desalination

Posted by: Jim Howlett According to a blog posted by Dr Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific Institute, we’re pretty close to achieving the minimum level of energy required for desalinating seawater. He says that we’re unlikely to see significant improvements in energy requirements unless a breakthrough technology comes along and is proposing that any new desalination …

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The Lowdown on Singapore’s Top Water Quality

Posted by: Gayle Leonard This July, 2008 video from Gallup reports that 98% of Singaporeans are satisfied with quality of their water. Singapore PUB must be doing most things right! (This video also has a great overview on planning, strategy, NEWater and operations.) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AcQ00rXt2Y&hl=en&fs=1]

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First Water from Changi NEWater Plant due shortly

Posted by: Gerry O’Toole   The Changi NEWater Plant, designed by Black & Veatch and owned and operated by SembCorp will produce NEWater for the first time in the coming few days.  This represents a major achievement for both companies and the project team. The odds are that in any game of word association played among water …

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