Water. Desalination + reuse
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| 8 | Desalination & Water Reuse | May-June 2015 BUSINESS Hyflux chief predicts more business beyond Asia Singapore desalination company, Hyflux, has forecast contract wins outside its Asian stamping ground following its recent success in the Middle East. Hyflux chief executive officer, Olivia Lum, said she expected growth in the global desalination market to enable the company to diversify revenue from Asia to the Middle East and African markets. Speaking to Water & Wastewater International magazine Lum said she anticipated revenues from elsewhere would align with the firm's core regions in Asia where some 87% of its revenues is made: "We do see a pick up from the Middle East, as well as Africa, so we do expect that over the next couple of years we will see some balance in revenue in Asia, Africa and Middle East." Revenue from the Middle East and North Africa region contributed 7% to company revenues according to Hyflux's last annual report. At the end of 2014 the company started up its 500,000 m³/day desalination plant in Magtaa, Algeria. Lum said Hyflux's recently won design, build, own and operate contract to build a 200,000 m³/day independent water project in Qurayyat, Oman would be a springboard for the company in the Middle East (see page 11). " Winning Qurayyat gives us more confidence. And also, from Oman, we'll be able to launch into other countries nearby," she said. Xylem Veolia deal Water technology company, Xylem, has been selected as a preferred partner by Veolia in a three-year global contract to develop water and wastewater pumping and mixing solutions for all of the French water giant's entities and relevant Veolia projects worldwide. Under the contract Veolia will use the following Xylem products: • Flygt wastewater pumps, both submersible and dry installed; • Flygt high efficiency mixers; • Lowara end-suction clear water pumps; • Lowara booster pumps; and • Lowara booster sets. Texas duo ponders desalination Officials from Texas cities, McAllen and Edinburg, are considering the construction of a desalination plant to service both cities. e cities' water supplies are currently dependent on the Rio Grande. Officials said they were concerned that the growing population in their region may over-tax the river. ey were anticipating that a plant that purified groundwater may assist the cities in meeting their growing demand for water amid persistent drought. Officials from both cities said a regional approach could garner more help from the state. "You start using the word 'regional' and it opens doors to financing," said McAllen public utility board chairman, Charles Amos. Discussions between the cities date back to last year, according to Edinburg city manager Ramiro Garza. And aer a two-year study, the Rio Grande Regional Water Authority concluded, in 2013, that desalination was the best way to deal with the water needs of the region's growing population. e authority concluded also that demand would outstrip current availability by more than 600 million m³ a year by 2060. Locations under consideration were near McAllen's north and south treatment plants. Aer purification, the water would be blended with the main supply. China and Caracas in desalination tie e Venezuelan government has signed agreements with six Chinese companies to install water desalination plants at coastal sites in the Latin American country. e three-stage process at the heart of the deals will achieve the best technical standards on water desalination, according to Venezuela's minister of planning and knowledge, Ricardo Menendez. e first stage includes the building of plants. e second stage is the development of service centres for Venezuela and some Caribbean countries and stage three will cover research on water desalination. Abengoa in West African first Spain-based energy and environment company, Abengoa, has inaugurated the first desalination plant in West Africa. e 60,000 m³/d plant will make potable water for some 500,000 people in Ghana's capital, Accra. e seawater desalination plant's output will be sold to Ghana Water Company under a 25-year build-own-operate-transfer model. It has been treating water for the past two months. Revenue forecasts for the plant run at about US$ 1.3 billion over the 25-year period. Culligan bags Rwandan deal Rwanadan state utility, Water and Sanitation Corporation (WASAC), has awarded water treatment technology firm, Culligan International, a contract to design and install a 25,000 m³/d water treatment plant to provide drinking water to the country's capital Kigali. "Kigali needs about 100,000 m³/d while water supplied is 65,000 m³/d," said WASAC chief executive officer, James Sano. e plant is scheduled for completion by July 2015, when it should produce 25,000 m³/d with the latitude to expand to 39,000 m³/d once performance results were proven. Culligan will provide all design and engineering works, equipment supply, civil works and installations. e plant will draw feed water from the Nyabarongo River – Rwanda's largest river. With the Culligan system, the plant will be equipped to deal with the challenges presented by the feed water, which has very high turbidity as well as high iron and manganese level, the manufacturer said.