Turkey
Water scarcity takes a back seat
Istanbul hosted 28,000 attendees at last week's 5th World Water Forum with the theme "Bridging Divides for Water". GWI's Christopher Gasson attended… Continue reading
Reminders
Subscribers to WDR and GWI, as well as members of the IDA and IPWA are all entitled to vote for the 2009 Global Water Awards at… Continue reading
Reminders
Former US vice president Al Gore will give the keynote address at the IDA/GWI's upcoming conference in Zurich on 27 April. The conference's theme is… Continue reading
2009 Conference Calendar
15 - 16 January (USA): The Multi-State Salinity Coalition will hold the annual Salinity Summit entitled Water and Energy, Finding the Balance in Las… Continue reading
Norit X-Flow selected to pretreat feedwater to Turkey
Norit X-Flow announced late last week that it has been awarded a Seaguard UF system to pretreat feedwater for a 13 ML/d (3.4 MGD) SWRO facility to be… Continue reading
City to evaluate seawater desal
Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbaş said the city will evaluate the use of seawater desalination in an attempt to ease problems resulting from ongoing… Continue reading
Another week, another ‘first’
Last week, this newspaper reported that one of the first full-scale SWRO systems in the Mediterranean to use membrane pretreatment for seawater… Continue reading
Tankered water plan cancelled
The agreement for Israel to buy fresh water from Turkey has been cancelled, at least for the time being. The decision was made this week at a meeting… Continue reading
Israel buys water to Turkey for 20 yr. agreement
20-yr. agreement to buy water from Turkey was signed by Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs director general Yoav Biran and Turkish counterpart Ugur… Continue reading
Well attended Euromed 2004 short on speakers, Turkey next in 2006
More than 200 registered at third Euromed 2004 conference organized by European Desalination Society at Marrakech, Morocco, from May 31 to June 3… Continue reading
