Microbial water quality - the devil and the redeemer
16 November, 2011
Professor Gillian Lewis, an expert in microbial water quality, will deliver her inaugural lecture as professor at The University of Auckland on Monday 21 November.
Online water quality assessment tool wins innovation award
15 November, 2011
At the NSW Excellence in Surveying & Spatial Information Awards event, the Spatial Information Award has been presented to the Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) for its online NorBE assessment tool.
Desalinated water for greening Flemington
26 October, 2011
If Flemington racecourse looks a lot greener and the roses more colourful this Spring Racing Carnival, the answer is several metres below the surface.
Water for good
24 October, 2011 | Supplied by: O'Donnell Griffin
A huge new desalination plant in Lonsdale will provide South Australia with up to 100 billion litres of water each year for decades to come. Adelaide Aqua (a consortium of four Companies, United Utilities, Acciona, Abigroup and McConnell Dowell) has been contracted to design, build, operate and maintain the plant for the next 20 years.
Latest trends in optimising desalination technology
24 October, 2011 by Neil Palmer*
Australia has invested $10 billion in six major seawater desalination plants around its coastline in as many years to waterproof its capital cities - at the same time providing a significant boost for renewable energy.
Dwyer Instruments Series TDFS thermal flow switch
20 October, 2011 | Supplied by: http://www.dwyer-inst.com.au/Products/Product.cfm?Group_ID=20302
The Series TDFS thermal flow switch indicates whether the flow rate is above or below a user set flow rate with NO and NC NPN outputs.
Campbell Scientific OBS500 submersible turbidity probe
19 October, 2011 | Supplied by: Campbell Scientific Aust Pty Ltd
The OBS500 submersible turbidity probe with active antifouling capabilities is suitable for improved measurements in biologically active water with both high and low turbidity.
Desalination in Israel
07 October, 2011 | Supplied by: Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group
Increased water conservation and water use efficiency are a priority for countries worldwide. A vital process, in a number of countries, is to boost the supply of potable water by desalination. However, large-scale desalination typically requires large amounts of energy as well as specialised, expensive infrastructure, making it very costly compared to the use of fresh water from rivers or groundwater.
Run-off monitoring on sugar cane farms
01 October, 2011 | Supplied by: Campbell Scientific Aust Pty Ltd
In December 2009, the Herbert Demonstration farm site was established in the Trebonne area on Orazio and Anthony Marino’s farm. The project is supported by the Queensland Government’s Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI), Terrain Natural Resource Management (NRM), BSES and JCU staff. Combining environmental sustainability and profitable farming as the key drivers, this is a collaborative effort between growers, government, research and industry bodies and is part of the Queensland and Australian Government’s Reef Plan to improve water quality entering the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. There are demonstration farm sites also located in the Burdekin and Tully areas.
$2.7m in grants to Victorian desal researchers
13 September, 2011
Almost $2.7m in grants from government and industry partners has been received by Victoria University researchers for three innovative desalination projects.
Novasys Sorbisense System passive samplers and mounting devices
12 September, 2011 | Supplied by: Novasys Group Pty Ltd
The Sorbisense System is a combination of passive samplers, SorbiCells and mounting devices for monitoring nutrients and xenobiotics in the aquatic environment as an alternative or supplementary to traditional grab sampling. This is especially advantageous if concentrations vary substantially with time, which makes it difficult to collect representative grab samples.
GE and Osmoflo enter into strategic alliance
07 September, 2011
GE, a global leader in water and process technologies, and Osmoflo, the largest Australian-owned desalination and water recycling company in Australia, have entered into a strategic alliance.
IDA World Congress 2011 opens 4 September in Perth
06 September, 2011
The IDA World Congress 2011 on Desalination and Water Re-use opened in Perth on 4 September with a program focus of ‘Sustainable Solutions for a Thirsty Planet’.
Desal research facility opens in WA
06 September, 2011
The WA government has opened Australia’s first Desal Discovery Centre and dedicated Desal Research Facility at Murdoch University’s Rockingham campus and has also announced funding of $3.8m in new desalination research.
Australian stormwater flow software goes global
24 August, 2011
A Commercialisation Australia grant will enable an Australian invention that simulates stormwater flows to go global.
