Water & Wastewater Asia July/August 2022

NEWS
ENERGY RECOVERY WINS OVER
US$8.2M IN SWRO CONTRACTS IN ASIA
Energy Recovery has been awarded
three contracts totalling over US$8.2
million to supply its PX Pressure
Exchanger energy recovery devices
to seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO)
desalination facilities in Asia. The
orders are expected to be fulfilled by
the end of Q3 2022.
When completed, Energy Recovery
estimates the plants will prevent
nearly 180,000 metric tons of carbon
dioxide emissions each year, the same
number of emissions produced by
over 39,000 passenger cars in the
same period. Once these contracts
are completed, Energy Recovery
will support the production of over
4 million cubic meters of water
per day in Asia.
Continued water scarcity,
industrialisation, rapid urbanisation
and population growth continue to
amplify the need for a stable and
energy-efficient supply of freshwater
in parts of Asia. All three facilities,
located in China and India, will supply
communities that are highly waterstressed.
Rodney Clemente, senior vicepresident
of water at Energy
Recovery, elaborated: “China and
India both fall well below the global
average of renewable freshwater
resources at 2,000 and 1,000 cubic
meters per capita, respectively – a
small fraction of the global average
of 5,600 cubic meters per capita.
Both countries are increasingly
Energy Recovery’s
PX Pressure Exchanger
looking to SWRO desalination as part
of their strategies to build a more
resilient, robust and reliable water
supply, thanks to leading innovations
like the PX that have helped make the
economic and environmental impacts
of SWRO more sustainable.”
Energy Recovery’s PX is said to reduce
energy consumption in SWRO facilities
by as much as 60%. The PX provides
low lifecycle costs, providing savings to
plant operators and bringing down the
cost of clean water.
ITALIAN TEXTILE MANUFACTURER RENEWS COMMITMENT TO
DELIVER CLEAN WATER ACCESS TO COMMUNITIES IN VIETNAM
Planet Water Foundation, a non-profit
organisation that addresses global water
poverty by providing clean water access and
hygiene education programmes, and Hung
Yen Knitting and Dyeing, an Italian textile
manufacturer operating in Vietnam, have
completed the deployment of their latest
clean water project in Hung Yen province,
Vietnam.
The project took place in a school in Văn
Lâm, Hung Yen, with volunteers from the
textile company supporting the Planet Water
Foundation team in deploying an AquaTower
community water filtration system which
will provide the students and surrounding
community members with access to clean,
safe drinking water.
Since the partnership began in 2020, Hung
Yen Knitting and Dyeing has supported the
deployment of four AquaTower systems. Each
AquaTower system produces 1,000 litres of
clean, safe drinking water per hour, enough
to meet the drinking water requirements of up
to 1,800 people and includes an integrated
handwashing station with liquid soap
dispensers.
Each project is deployed together with Planet
Water’s hygiene education programme
to help spread the knowledge on healthy
hygiene habits, and Planet Water’s AquaSan
mobile surface disinfection system which
helps sanitise the school environment.
And by the end of this year, the two
organisations will be deploying two
additional AquaTower projects in Hung Yen
province, further extending the impact of
the partnership, as Mark Steele, founder
and CEO of the Planet Water Foundation,
concluded: “By the end of this year, through
our partnership, we will have brought access
to clean, safe drinking water to up to 10,800
people and provided hygiene education
to over 4,000 students and community
members.”
By the end of the year, the partnership will have
provided safe water access to over 10,000 people
(Photo credit: Pixabay)
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