Water. desalination + reuse

BUSINESS clean water from damaged groundwater, surface water and wastewater treatment plants. ���Our new company brings together an exciting combination of proven solutions, innovations ready for market and ideas under development,��� says David Stanton, the CEO of the new enterprise. ���And with more of our clients looking to save capital by deploying our solutions through water-by-the-gallon contracts, we now can offer the full service solutions in Europe and North America.��� Rochem and APTwater���s employees and license partners are located at sales and service centers in North America, Germany, Italy, UK, Australia and Asia. Sepro manufactures membranes in Oceanside, California. MaNN+HUMMEl acqUIrE BrazIlIaN rO/UF SpEcIalISt Brazilian membrane water treatment specialist Fluid Brasil has been taken over by Mann+Hummel, the German company announced on 9 January 2012. Mann+Hummel Brasil Tecnologia Em Agua Participacoes Ltda, based in Indaiatuba, Sao Paulo state, took over 100% of Fluid Brasil Sistemas e Tecnologia Ltda, headquartered in Jundia�� near the city of S��o Paulo. Fluid Brasil specialised in reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration solutions for treatment of water and wastewater. In 2011, 80 company employees generated a turnover of around ��� 25 million. ���Fluid Brasil enables us to expand our system expertise and gives us access to the local water market. The company complements our portfolio very well���, explained Alfred Weber, CEO Mann+Hummel. The new subsidiary serves notable industrial national and international customers in Brazil and has approximately 600 reference projects. WatEr traIlS clIMatE IN BOard-rOOM cONcErNS SUrvEy SayS Just under half of 190 publicly listed organisations surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) lack board-level oversight of water policies, strategies or plans. Launching its Water Disclosure Global Report 2011 on 16 November 2011, the CDP drew a comparison with its similar climate-change report launched two months before, which suggested that 94% of Global 500 companies reported board-level oversight of the topic. ���This is surprising,��� CDP observes, ���given that the majority of reported water-related risks and opportunities are recognized as near term.��� The water report is based on a questionnaire sent to 315 companies on the Global 500 index identified as operating in the most water-stressed locations or industry sectors. This year, 190 (60%) of these companies responded - a 10% increase from the previous year - showing improved transparency on water management, says CDP. Over half (59%) of companies surveyed reported exposure to water-related risks such as flooding, scarcity, and reputational damage. The majority of these risks were near-term: 64% of risks in direct operations and 66% of risks in the supply chain were identified as occurring between now and 2016. Illustrating the urgency of water risk, more than one-third of responding companies (38%) had already experienced water-related business impacts, such as disruption to operations from severe weather events (eg, flooding) and water shortages. | 14 | Desalination & Water Reuse | February-March 2012 pEOplE AmericAn WAter Appoints mAnAger for troubled monterey division eric sabolsice, who worked on commissioning the tampa bay desalination plant for American Water, has been appointed general manager for the california American Water division which includes monterey. california America Water is experiencing considerable trouble setting up a desalination project in the monterey region, which it is discussing with marina coast Water district and monterey Water resources Agency (see page 22). it has been ordered to reduce its abstractions from the carmel river by 2016. sabolsice has served as the division���s operations manager since 2009, and his resume includes over 23 years of water utility experience leading the operation and maintenance of some of the largest and most complex water treatment systems in the us. AccionA mAkes tWo neW menA Appointments spanish desalination company Acciona Agua has appointed Jos�� d��az-caneja as development manager, middle east and north Africa. d��az-caneja takes up the post previously held by Alejandro Jimenez, who is now development director for the Water services area. previously managing director of foroppp infraestructuras, d��azcaneja is a civil engineer and holds an executive mbA from spain���s iese business school. He brings to his new post ample experience in the national water market, garnered over the past four years at an institution focused on developing ppp financing projects. reporting to d��az-caneja, and based in dubai, is a new middle east development manager, Jes��s sancho, who took up his post with Acciona Agua on 14 november 2011. sancho is an aeronautical engineer and holds pdd qualifications from iese. He has two years��� experience and for the last four years has been based in dubai in one of spain���s foremost water industry multinationals. ge���s muscAt tAkes over As oAsys WAter ceo former ge executive bob muscat has been appointed chief executive officer of oasys Water, the us forward-osmosis desalination specialist. oasys says the appointment marks the beginning of its commercialization phase. ���We are excited to bring bob on board as we deploy our breakthrough technology into the global water market and look to him to set a long-term vision for the company���, said Jim matheson, oasys Water chairman. ���oasys��� technology has exceeded our expectations, and with bob���s leadership, the company will become a world leader in water desalination.��� muscat brings nearly 30 years of experience across a diverse set of industries including power generation, manufacturing, and environmental services. prior to joining oasys, muscat served as general manager of ge energy���s environmental services business. As the global business leader, he executed a turnaround strategy for the $500 million global unit and created a thriving business, generating record operating profits and fulfilling the goal of achieving consistent, top quartile business performance. AgniHotri elected to boArd of tHermoenergy corp dr dileep Agnihotri, the ceo and president of Advanced Hydro inc, a company set up to commercialise a novel antifouling membrane coating technology at the university of texas ��� Austin, has joined the board of thermoenergy corp, a massachusetts-based company engaged in development and sales of municipal and industrial wastewater-recovery and clean power-generation technologies. dr Agnihotri holds a phd in nuclear chemistry and an ms in physical chemistry from the university of rochester. He also has an ms degree in physics from Agra university. He has published more than 30 articles and holds more than half a dozen patents.

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