Water. Desalination + reuse
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BUSINESS May-June 2015| Desalination & Water Reuse | 15 | market penetration will increase with at least 100,000 m 3 /d in 2015. AWT TEAmS WITh ABENgoA IN SolAr-poWErEd dESAlINATIoN fIrST oN A lArgE SCAlE Saudi-based water treatment specialist, Advanced Water Technologies (AWT), has appointed Spanish conglomerate, Abengoa, as its partner in the development of the world's first large-scale desalination plant to be powered by solar energy. The plant will produce water at 60,000 m³/d to supply Al Khafji City in North Eastern Saudi Arabia. Abengoa said the project incorporates a photovoltaic array capable of supplying the power required by the desalination plant to significantly reduce its operational costs. The facility will also have a system to optimize power consumption and a pre-treatment phase to reduce the high level of salinity, oils, and fats that are present in the region's seawater. BIWATEr hIghlIghTS WASTEWATEr for fUTUrE Water and wastewater firm, Biwater, has highlighted wastewater in its future direction as it unveiled a simplification of the branding for its desalination and membrane treatment businesses. Biwater's desalination and membrane treatment sector, Biwater AEWT, has been renamed Biwater Inc. In announcing the change, president of the business, Jorg Menningmann, highlighted its "approach and future direction" saying it would be, "enhancing our core desalination activities with complementary advanced treatment technologies to provide new sources of water from wastewater. Menningmann said this would provide "a more cohesive brand identity in line with the group's other trading entities around the globe." The company said Biwater Inc, "has a successful record of accomplishment across North America and in numerous international markets." Ch2m TEAmS WITh pUB IN INdIA Recently renamed consultant, CH2M, in partnership with the Singapore Public Utilities Board (PUB) and Singapore Cooperation Enterprise, is providing water management services to the Rajasthan state government in India. The Public Health and Environment Department (PHED) for the ancient city of Jaipur has engaged CH2M to address its growing challenges from water scarcity and diminishing security and quality as demand escalates. In recent years, Jaipur has also become more reliant on groundwater resources as pollution, spreading urbanisation and climate change, have reduced quality and availability of its traditional surface water resources. To address these challenges, Jaipur has turned to industry experts and Singapore, which has successfully tackled similar water scarcity issues through its reuse of treated wastewater programme, NEWater and water portfolio diversification. ENvIroNNEmENT ovErhAUlS INTErNATIoNAl opErATIoNS ANd flAgS rEBrANd Suez Environnement has merged its Degrémont subsidiary into its international operating division under a major restructuring of the group's operations outside of Europe that will create five new regional businesses. The five business units in North America, Australia, Asia, Europe/Latin America, and Africa/Middle East/India will be supported by four international business lines: Water Innovation and Business Performance and Wastewater Innovation and Business Performance, both led by executive vice president Thierry Mallet; and, DBO/DBOT Solutions and Industrial Water Solutions, both led by Rémi Lantier. The chief executive officers of each of the five new business units are: Bertrand Camus (North America), Eric Gemath (Australia), Steve Clark (Asia), Yann Rolland (Europe/Latin America), and Dom Mangin d'Ouince (Africa/Middle East/India). The company said the new structure will create a more customer- focused and entrepreneurial organization. It will, according to the company, enable an accelerated roll-out of its services across all groups so an offering developed in one country can be used in other countries. Environnement said all of its activities were to be rebranded under a single corporate identity in the first quarter of the year. CorporATEpEoplE New York-based Scinor Water America has appointed Jay garcia as vice president of business development. Garcia's earlier work has been with Pall, Wigen Water Technologies and Roberts Filter. gary Crisp, has been appointed the US water business development director for Sacyr Environment, an affiliate of Valoriza Agua. He will be based in Washington, DC. He was formerly with GHD. Eric geibel has been appointed Wigen Water Technologies' Chicago, Illinois-based sales manager. He was formerly with Veolia Water and Pall. Tonkin Consulting has appointed Neil palmer as principal water engineer. He will be based at the company's head office in Adelaide, Australia and will continue part-time as chief executive officer of the National Center of Excellence in Desalination Australia. Kent goh has been appointed as the director of Asia-Pacific sales for Avista Technologies. He is based in Singapore. Water technology firm Xylem has appointed Steven leung as senior vice president and president, emerging markets. Leung will lead the company's commercial operations in China, greater Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, as well as Australia and New Zealand. He will be a member of the company's senior leadership team, based in Shanghai, China. Hydranautics– a Nitto Group company, has announced the appointment of Asif Sheriff as the process separations account executive. Formerly with Nalco, he is based in Rockford, Illinois. fredi lokiec has been appointed the business development manager for desalination and water reuse for Hutchison Water. He was formerly an executive vice president of special projects for IDE Technologies and general manger for the Sorek project company. He is based in Israel. Energy Recovery has appointed Joel gay as chief executive officer. Gay was previously the company's chief financial officer. He has been overseeing the day-to-day affairs of Energy Recovery since the departure of the previous chief executive, Thomas Rooney. Oasys Water has appointed John Tracy as director of marketing. He has been product market director for the company since joining it last year. He is based in Boston, Massachusetts.