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This Week's Spotlight
Desalination Plants Open in Sydney, Florida Keys
February 3, 2010
New desalination plants in Sydney, Australia and in the Florida Keys began operating recently to help communities meet water supply needs. Sydney's new wind-powered seawater desalination plant opened January 28 and has the ability to generate as much as 250 million liters of water each day. The brackish water desalination plant in the Florida Keys started delivering water January 21 and has a capacity of six million gallons per day.
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Specialty Conference to be Convened in Sydney, AustraliaThe WateReuse Association and the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA) are accepting abstracts for our first specialty conference. The conference will be held at the Dockside in Sydney, Australia on November 15-17, 2010. The conference theme is Water Reuse and Desalination: Water Scarcity Solutions for the 21st Century. To be considered for a technical presentation, submit an abstract by March 25, 2010. 
San Diego Moves Forward with Potable Reuse Pilot StudyThe San Diego City Council approved a pivotal contract on January 26 that will allow water officials to move forward with an $11.8 million pilot project that will use highly purified recycled water to augment drinking water supplies. The City Council approved a $3.28 million contract with RMC Water and Environment to manage the project and educate residents about water recycling. |
May 24-25 14th Annual Water Reuse & Desalination Research Conference Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, Tampa, FL |
About the Organization
The WateReuse Association is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance the beneficial and efficient use of water resources through education, sound science, and technology using reclamation, recycling, reuse and desalination for the benefit of our members, the public, and the environment. Across the United States and the world, communities are facing water supply challenges due to increasing demand, drought, depletion and contamination of groundwater, and dependence on a single source of supply. Water reuse helps communities address these challenges.