2 US: VIRGINIA
WE&RF has awarded a contract to the Environmental Law Institute to begin Food Waste Co-Digestion at Wastewater Resource Recovery Facilities: Business Case Analysis. The project goal is to develop alternative sustainable business cases for wastewater resource recovery facilities to co-digest food waste, including fats, oil, and grease, food manufacturing residuals, and source separated organics. The project is anticipated to be completed in 2018.
3 BRAZIL
Brazil’s flagship Aquapollo reuse project, which cleans up municipal wastewater and sends it to the Capuava Petrochemical Complex of Mauá, located in São Paulo’s ABC region, is only running at half capacity. Speaking at the IDA World Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sabesp president Jerson Kelman said the project is running at 500 litres/second, rather than the 1000 litres/second, as planned. He attributed this “challenge” to finding suitable clients for the treated effluent near to the plant.
4 OMAN
A practical guide to dealing with harmful algal blooms has been launched by the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the Middle East Desalination Research Centre. The guide draws on expertise from over 60 specialists and takes practical information from 12 case studies for plant designers and operators. Joint editor Mike Dixon told WWi magazine that ultrafiltration membranes were deemed the recommended technology to deal with strong algal blooms.
5 INDIA
The Indian government has pledged to connect 90 percent of Indian rural households to a piped water supply by 2022. The country’s president, Ram Nath Kovind, said that connecting at least 600,000 villages was not just a project proposal but “is a sacred commitment”.
Quoted by the Economic Times, Kovind said that new technologies are needed to reduce the toxic content of wastewater produced and to deploy it for agricultural purposes.
6 AUSTRALIA
The 1600 m3/day Marshall Islands desalination project has moved onto the operational phase following a successful commissioning and performance testing. Australian company Osmoflo will now provide operation & maintenance support remotely via its PlantConnect software over a two-year period to the asset owners, Kwajalein Atoll Joint Utilities Resources. Aid funding was provided from the Asian Development Bank, Australian and US governments.