Drinking Water Filtration News

  1. Faculty Member Uses Inexpensive Ceramic Filters To Combat Water Crisis 3/9/2015

    A game-changer. That’s what Penn State art education professor B. Stephen Carpenter II calls the approximately 50-pound portable filter press designed by engineering students during the spring 2014 semester. By Amy Milgrub Marshall

  2. Biwater Awarded Advanced Water Treatment Project In California 11/16/2016

    Biwater have been awarded a contract to design, supply and supervise the installation and commissioning of both ultrafiltration (UF) and reverse osmosis (RO) systems for the Groundwater Reliability Improvement Program (GRIP) advanced water treatment facility being constructed in Pico Rivera, Southern California.

  3. New Membrane May Solve Fresh Water Shortages 11/29/2015

    Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a technology that improves the removal of salt from seawater, a breakthrough that may alleviate the increasing demand for fresh water in some countries.

  4. Toray To Establish New Water Treatment Membrane Company In China 4/8/2019

    Toray Industries, Inc., (President: Akihiro Nikkaku; hereinafter referred to as “Toray”) recently announced that it has decided to establish a new company in Foshan, China, that will engage in production and sales of water treatment membrane products including reverse osmosis (RO), nanofiltration (NF), ultrafiltration (UF), microfiltration (MF) and membrane bioreactor (MBR) solutions.

  5. Pall Water Announces New Offering Designed To Maximize Water Production 11/14/2019

    Pall Water, a world leader in water filtration, separation, and purification, has released the newest offering in their Aria FAST product line: T96.

  6. Desalitech To Supply Advanced Wastewater Treatment Pilot System To Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts 10/2/2013

    Desalitech, a provider of high-efficiency water production and treatment solutions, announced recently that it will supply an advanced pilot wastewater treatment system to the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County, one of largest wastewater municipalities in the State of California.

  7. AMTA Seeks New Executive Director 3/6/2019

    American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) is seeking an Executive Director (ED) to lead the organization starting in October 2019. The current ED, Harold Fravel, has served in this capacity for seven years and is retiring at the end of 2019.

  8. Pressure-Retarded Osmosis As Sustainable Energy Production System Is Crippled By Biofouling According To New Study 12/30/2015

    Researchers at the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR) at BGU and Yale University have determined that pressure-retarded osmosis technology is not feasible primarily due to biofouling (the accumulation of organic material as well as different organisms such as algae and bacteria on various surfaces that impairing structures and hinder system performance).

  9. Ghalilah Desalination Plant Honored With Distinction Award For Desalination Plant Of The Year At 2016 Global Water Awards 4/28/2016

    The Ghalilah desalination plant in the United Arab Emirates has been honored at the 2016 Global Water Awards with a Distinction Award in the Desalination Plant of the Year category, which recognizes plants commissioned in 2015 that represent the most impressive technical achievement in the industry.

  10. Freshwater From Salt Water Using Only Solar Energy 6/19/2017

    A federally funded research effort to revolutionize water treatment has yielded an off-grid technology that uses energy from sunlight alone to turn salt water into fresh drinking water.