To ensure that no untreated sewage flows in Ganga, the government has finalised modalities and awarded work to construct sewage treatment plants (STPs) in the Hindu holy cities of Varanasi and Haridwar. The two plants will be built on "hybrid annuity" based public private partnership in which the development, operation and maintenance of the STPs will be undertaken by the winning bidder, said the Water Resources Ministry release. Under the model, 40% of the capital cost quoted would b...

The BWSSB is constructing four new sewage treatment plants (STPs) at Koramangala and Challaghatta valley, Vrishabhavathi valley, Doddabela and Hebbal. With a combined capacity of 400 million litres per day (MLD), these plants will treat the waste water coming from several areas, including Koramangala, areas near Mysuru Road and Hebbal. While the STPs at Koramangala, Challaghatta and Vrishabhavathi valley will have a capacity of 150 MLD each, the one at Hebbal will have a capacity of 100 MLD. Th...

A €63 million development in Djibouti will see up to 45,000 m3/day of drinking water delivered by renewable powered desalination. The country’s Economy and Finance Ministry has commissioned the deal, with the National Water and Wastewater Treatment Office (ONEAD) serving as project manager. French engineering company Eiffage Génie Civil, taking €37 million from the deal, will deliver it in a consortium with Spanish water company Tedagua. To be built in the Doraleh neigh...

Oman Public Authority for Electricity and Water (PAEW) has issued two tenders for desalination plants up to 10,000 m3/d in remote locations that are off the main water network. They will be delivered as build, own, operate (BOO) contracts, a model that was adopted by PAEW in 2015, and which it sees as useful for projects in remote places. The new plants will be procured from the private sector which will take responsibility for long term performance with PAEW buying the water under contract. Pi...

Saudi Arabia and China have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on developing desalination projects using gas-cooled nuclear reactors. The co-operation agreement was one of four MoUs signed between organisations from the two countries at a meeting of the Saudi-Chinese high level joint committee in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The MoU on desalination was signed by state-owned entities Saudi Company for Development and Technical Investment and China Nuclear Engineering Group Corp. It provides fo...

The Bureau of Reclamation announced it has selected two California projects to receive $1.5 million total in CALFED Water Use Efficiency grants for fiscal year 2017. Combined with local cost-share contributions, these projects are expected to implement about $6.9 million in water management improvements during the next 24 months. The projects will conserve an estimated 733 acre-feet per year of water, contributing to the CALFED Bay-Delta Program objectives of improving ecosystem health, water s...