RO elements are used for demineralising brackish water or desalinating seawater for a variety of sectors and industrial applications, including water treatment, power generation, food and beverage processing, municipal desalination and water reuse. (Image source: James Grellier/Wikimedia Commons)
Dow Chemical has awarded US engineering firm Fluor Corporation an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for its Reverse Osmosis (RO) manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia
Once completed the new plant will produce more than 1mcm of drinking water a day. (Image source: Rain Rannu)
Production of purified water has begun in what will become the world?s biggest seawater desalination facility, based in Saudi Arabia, according to state-owned Saudi Press Agency
Current desalination techniques are energy intensive, and this global challenge encourages innovators to find solutions through cleaner and cheaper energy solutions. (Image source: Melody Ayres-Griffiths/Flickr)
GE ecomagination and Aramco Entrepreneurship have launched global technology challenge worth US$200,000 to encourage new solutions to improve the energy efficiency of seawater desalination
The river Nile flowing through Cairo in Egypt, which is reportedly among the six most water-stressed nations in the world. (Image source: David Berkowitz/Flickr)
The European Union has announced it will make a contribution of US$95mn towards a water project titled Improved Water and Waste Water Services Programme, in Egypt
The Quriyat desalination project is expected to increase the overall capacity of desalinated water in Oman. (Image source: ro plant)
Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) has revealed the request for proposal (RfP) to the shortlisted bidders for the development of a new seawater desalination project in Quriyat, south of Muscat
