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December 2014 - January 2015

Keeping Pace With China’sSouth-North Water Transfer

Can Greater Colombo PlugSri Lanka’s Sanitation Gap?

2014 Year Review: Recapping Water’s Landmark Projects


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CONTENTS DECEMBER 2014-JANUARY 2015

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R E G I O N A L S P O T L I G H T - A S I A PA C I F I C

CHINA’S GREAT WALL MARK II: SNWT WT 28

Totalling a century from conception to completion, at nearly$70 billion, China’s South-North Water Transfer Project will be one of the greatest engineering feats of the modern era.But at what environmental cost?

WATER TREATMENT PLANT COMMISSIONING 35

To ensure problems are minimised during the operationof water plants, the commissioning phase should not be

underestimated. This article provides practical advice andoutlines the procedure in Australia.

PINPOINTING LEAKS IN MANILLA 38

Rather than spending over $40 million to recover 5,000 m3/day of water lost through leaks, instead a Philippines-basedutility instead used hydraulic modelling to identify andrepair the leak, at a fraction of the cost.

PLUGGING SRI LANKA’S SANITATION GAP 40

At a cost of $100 million, the Greater Colombo WastewaterManagement Project is hoped to help the nation meetits Millennium Development Goals. Find out the latestdevelopments in this article.

TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

PRODUCT FOCUS: TANKS AND STORAGE 42

Tension fabric buildings with rigid frame design; US tanksused to expand Saudi’s potable water supplies; sludge cakestorage contract awarded in the UK and pre-stressed concretetanks used for potable water.

PRODUCT FOCUS: MEMBRANES 47

A digital modeling tool launched for evaluating watertreatment components from DW&PS; upgrade for Pall’slube oil filter element range; Applied Cleantech gets positive

results from fine filter trial in Scotland; novel activatedsludge “cake filtration” bags grant in Singapore & Lanxesssteps up production of weak acid cation exchange resin inGermany.

R E G U L A R S

EDITOR’S NOTE 4

NEWS 6

TECHNOLOGY ROUNDUP 42

PRODUCT REVIEW 43

DIARY /AD INDEX/WEB PROMO 44

U P F R O N T

WWI’S TOP 25 INDUSTRY LEADERS 10

The water industry is full of innovators and leaders. Find outwho our readers have voted as the top 25, concluding with afull interview with the winner.

2014 YEAR REVIEW: WATER’S HIGHS & LOWS 16

Although 2014 could be seen as relatively quiet on themunicipal contract front, industrial water treatment reallypicked up. Read our year review of the biggest contractssigned, sealed and delivered around the world.

THE BIG QUESTION: PUMPS 22In the ongoing WWi technology series, we ask pumpmanufacturers: how can pumps help meet the growingenvironmental concern of flood alleviation?

TECHNOLOGY CASE STUDIES

WASTEWATER REUSE 25

The San Diego city council has voted unanimously for amulti-billion dollar plan to recycle over 300,000 m3/day ofwater. How will this fit in with desalination plans?

UNEARTHING MINING WATER TECH 32New mining discharge regulations and water accesschallenges are creating opportunities for the application ofnew water technologies. Which will emerge as successful?

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EDITOR’S NOTE

CONQUERING MOUNTAINS WWi celebrates 25 thought leaders in the global industry, all of whom

have made a difference in the provision of water and wastewater services,

or the research and technology used to do so.

Tom Freyberg, Chief Editor

Follow on

anuary is a funny month. A time when gym owners cash in on new memberstrying to undo calorific damage from the festive period. A time when New Year’sresolutions are made and broken within days. Yet rather than trying to give

something up, instead I always try and use this time to take on something new. Thisnormally takes the form of a physical challenge.For 2015 I’ve lined up, with a group of friends, a 20 mile obstacle run, a couple

of half marathons and also a “Man Vs Mountain” event. The latter is 23 mile run/hike/crawl up to the top of Mount Snowdon and back. To some this sounds likehell. To me? Pure joy!

The message I’m trying to get across is that we should never be content with just

getting by. We should always be trying to better ourselves – to self improve, developand continue to take on and conquer new challenges. And it’s this continued journey of development that we are celebrating in this issue of WWi (here comes thetenuous link).

As the cover concept suggests, we have put together a list of 25 top leaders inthe global water/wastewater industries. Together with an advisory committee, we

came up with 25 individuals and then asked our readers to vote on who they thinkdeserves to take the top spot. Turn to page 10 to read our six-page special, counting

down from 25 and finishing with an interview with the winner – Neil Palmer, CEOof the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia (NCEDA).

Australia’s desalination industry has come under fire recently. Infrastructure built during a period of drought is now not needed after the rains have returned.Between 2004 and 2012, six large scale desalination plants were delivered. As youcan read from our interview on page 14, Palmer is adamant that the droughts willreturn and built plants will be used. With a AUD$12 billion price tag hanging overthe projects, let’s hope so. Boasting a career spanning 40 years, Palmer has played a

key role in helping the country to secure water supplies for years to come.On the topic of multi-billion dollar investments, China’s South-North Water

Transfer project is progressing. The central route of the mammoth engineering

project was completed towards the end of last year. As you can read from ourin-depth article on page 28, the project is having wide environmental and politicalimplications for a country that will be reliant upon the transfer as a water lifeline.

Nor was it just the Asia/Australasia region that sparked headlines towards theend of 2014. In November the San Diego city council in the US voted unanimously

for a multi-billion dollar plan to recycle over 300,000 m3/day of water (read page25). This new addition will see reused water go to a reservoir, before furthertreatment to allow direct addition to the water grid.

Whether it’s making direct potable reuse more publically acceptable, completingChina’s water transfer or climbing Mount Snowdon, we should all be setting ourown mountains to conquer, no matter the size. So here’s to 2015: taking on newchallenges and celebrating successes, both personally and professionally.

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THE SAN DIEGO

CITY COUNCIL IN

THE US VOTED

UNANIMOUSLY FORA MULTI-BILLION

DOLLAR PLAN TO

RECYCLE OVER

300,000 M3/DAY OF

WATER

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US: TEXAS

The Texas Research & Technology Foundation has launched a Texas WaterTechnology Accelerator – called AccelerateH2O. Designed to help developTexas’ $9 billion water technology market, AccelerateH2O will bring together

the state’s 18 academic research centers, 4,300 water entities, 5,000 medium-and large-scale corporate facilities.

WORLD NEWS

SAUDI ARABIA

Consultancy Black &Veatch has won the fourth

phase expansion of the Jeddah desalination plant,awarded by Saudi Arabia’sSaline Water ConversionCorporation. A 400,000 m3/reverse osmosis (RO) plantwill be added as part ofthe engineering and design

contract.

PANAMA

The Panama Ministry of Health has awarded a €65 million contractto maintain and operate the wastewater collection systems, pumpingstations and other networks in Panama City over a period of fouryears. Suez Environnement subsidiary Degrémont will operate andmaintain the 162 km system of pipes that is due to be extended to 248km in 2016. The contract includes the repair of certain infrastructures

and the supply of equipment.

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Qatar Public Works Authority(Ashghal) has awarded a €300 million

contract to Spanish firm FCC Aqualiato manage the sewerage system in AlDhakhira (Qatar) for the next 10 years.Representing the company’s first entryin Qatar, FCC Aqualia won the tenderagainst several companies, includingSpanish rivals Cadagua and Accionaand multinationals such as Daewoo,

Samsung and Marubeni.

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Tunisia’s national watercompany, Sonede, is expected

to launch a tender for theconstruction of its 150,000m3/day desalination plantin Sfax in May 2015. Funded by the Japanese InternationalCooperation Agency, the newfacility would supply potablewater to the coastal city and

industrial centre, Sfax.

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US: WASHINGTON

The Safe Drinking Water Act(SDWA) has reached a 40-

year milestone, first passed by Congress in 1974. At thetime, more than 50% of waterfacilities surveyed werediagnosed with conditionsthat posed potentially seriouspublic safety hazards. Under

the SDWA, the EPA hasregulations in place for morethan 90 contaminants, includingmicroorganisms. There remainsa $384 billion gap in drinkingwater infrastructure needs.

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CHINA

Beijing Drainage

Construction Company hasawarded a second contractfor the use of ThermalHydrolysis Process (THP),following an initial contractawarded in September. The

contract at Xiaohongmenfollows the recent contract

award to Cambi forGaobeidian WWTP, Beijing’slargest. Beijing DrainageGroup will use the THPprocess to upgrade theXiaohongmen WWTP’s fivelarge egg-shaped digesters toadvanced sludge treatment.

POLAND

The Pollet Water GroupBelgium has acquired Alamo,

a domestic water treatmentcompany in Poland. Thetakeover follows PWGtaking over Watertec at the beginning of 2014 and themove is expected to add €10million to the group’s current€150 million annual turnover.

AUSTRALIA

Neil Palmer, CEO of the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia

has claimed top spot in a new WWi Top 25 Leaders feature, voted by readers. Hewas competing against industry leaders from Nobel Laureates, to engineers whohave grown multi-million dollar empires. With 40 years experience, he played akey role between 2004 to 2012 in Australia when the country delivered six largeseawater desalination plants, worth AUD$12 billion of investment. Turn to page10 to read the full article.

SINGAPORE

A S$1.4 million (US$1.1m)

grant has been awarded bythe Singapore Environmentand Water IndustryProgramme Office todevelop a novel wastewaterfiltration process that turnsactivated sludge into afiltration medium. Global

pump company Grundfoswill use the grant to focus onthe industrial treatment ofwastewater using a cake filtermade from activated sludge.

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The 60,00 m3/day ROdesalination project in

Nungua, Ghana, has beencompleted. Local sourcesquoted deputy ministerof communications, FelixKwakye-Ofosu as confirmingthe $125m project had been completed. Abengoais undertaking the project

under a DBOT basis.

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Water industry regulator Ofwat ruledthat water bills in England and Wales

will fall by 5% by 2020. This couldsee a saving of £20 in average bills,coming into effect in April 2015. Thenews generated mixed reactions. TheConsumer Council for Water saidutilities can still add inflation to bills thatcould “hurt households”. MeanwhileAnglian Water said it was good news for

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HYFLUX HOPES TO SPRINGBOARD OFF OMAN$250M PROJECT ACROSS REST OF MIDDLE EASTSingapore firm Hyflux has beenawarded a US$250 million contractto design, build, own and operate theQurayyat 200,000 m3/day desalinationproject in Oman.

Hyflux fought off stiff competitionfor the reverse osmosis (RO) project,with bids from six groups including

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The firm expects demand in the MiddleEast to accelerate after this first majormunicipal contract in the region.

Group CEO Olivia Lum told NikeiAsian Review: “Pent-up demand in theMiddle East and Africa is driving therevival of water infrastructure projects.”

The project is not expected to have

a financial impact on Hyflux for thefinancial year ended 31 December 2014.

TRIPLE EUROPEAN CONTRACT WIN HELPSAQUALIA ENTER TWO NEW MARKETSSpanish firm FCC Aqualia has beenawarded three new contracts in thecities of Madrid (Spain), Vrsac (Serbia)and Prizren (Kosovo), worth a total

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The €5.6 million contract will consistof building a treatment plant with acapacity to produce 26,000 m3/day forthe city of Vrsac, in Voivodina province.


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ENGLANDA £40 million desalination plant

producing 200,000 m3/day could be in

operation along England’s south coast by

2028, according to utility Southern Water.

Southern Water told WWi: “Currently,a desalination plant is being considered

for construction in Southampton by

2028 but comprehensive planning

with the regulators, local authorities

and environmental and community

groups would be required if it was to be

pursued.

“The desalination option which we

have outlined would run alongside

other regular resources and would only

typically be used during periods of

drought.”

In its draft Water ResourcesManagement Plan the utility outlined a

range of water resource improvements,

including desalination. This would be

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construction of the Prizren treatment

plant.

The €10.5 million contract is scheduled

to be signed in January 2015 and is

another first in the country for Aqualia.

Once completed, the plant will treat the

city’s wastewater with a capacity in the

initial stage of an equivalent population

of 50,000.

The Spanish firm is currently building

treatment plants at Niksic and Pljevija

(Montenegro) and in Konjic (Bosnia),

under contracts worth a total of €30

million. In Spain, Aqualia will be

responsible for operation & maintenancetasks at 28 wastewater treatment plants,

owned by the Canal de Isabel II water

authority.

The plants are located in 28 municipal

districts in the Madrid region, in the

catchment area of the river Alberche.

This new contract, worth nearly €5.5

million, is for two years, extendable for a

further two years.

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the second major municipal desalination plant in the country.

In June 2010, the UK opened its first municipal desalination plant in Beckton,

East London, operated by utility Thames Water and capable of supplying 150,000

m3/day of water. Although Thames Water’s Beckton site is considered the first

major municipal desalination plant in the UK, the Scilly Isle’s 227 m3/day facility

has been operating since the early 1990s.

A report from the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) predicted that at

least four major plants and up to 800 smaller units could be in operation in the UK

by 2050.

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The global water/wastewater industries have spoken! From Nobel Laureates, to water reuse pioneers

and engineers who have grown billion dollar businesses in less than a decade: the water industry is full of

innovators and thought leaders. Here we take a close look at the top 24 before an interview with the winner.

CELEBRATING THE WATER

INDUSTRY’S HIGH FLIERS

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25 LI GUOYING, FORMER COMMISSIONER, YELLOW RIVER CONSERVANCYCOMMISSION, CHINA (NOW VICE MINISTER OF WATER RESOURCES) From 2001 to 2011, as commissioner for the Yellow River Conservancy Commission (YRCC), he helpedto transform China’s second longest river. YRCC overcame natural and man-made challenges through

innovative and sustainable policies to enable the Yellow River to flow unabated over the last 10 years.Improved water supply from YRCC’s efforts are said to have benefitted and enhanced the quality of lifefor over one hundred million people. Life and vitality were cited to be restored to the river, according tothe Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize nominating committee, who awarded YRCC the 2010 prize in Singapore.

24 HON EK SONN CHAN, CAMBODIA UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WATER (FORMERGENERAL DIRECTOR, CAMBODIA WATER SUPPLY AUTHORITY - PPWSA)Decades of conflict left Cambodia’s capital’s water supplies running low. In 1993 Chan was appointedas general director of PPWSA. He oversaw the utility’s dramatic turnaround. A total of 1,500 kilometresof new pipelines were laid, helping to expand water output by 600%. By confronting VIP nonpayers andcutting supplies after refusal to pay, he achieved a collection rate of 99% by 2003. Water losses due toleakage in pipes and pumps declined from 72% in 1993 to 6% in 2008.

23 DR JIM BIRKETT, PROPRIETOR (RETIRED) WEST NECK STRATEGIES, US

Widely considered one of the desalination industry’s most respected professionals, Dr. Birketthas more than four decades of experience in the study of desalination, advanced water treatment andmembrane separation industries and technologies. He was the first elected President of the InternationalDesalination Association (IDA). He later served as Treasurer and was a director for many years. From2009-2013, he served as Chairman of the Editorial Boards for the IDA Journal of Desalination and WaterReuse.

22 NEIL MACLEOD, FORMER CEO, ETHEKWINI MUNICIPALITY, SOUTH AFRICA Macleod demonstrated how to turn a struggling utility into a profitable business. Since 2000, heoversaw eThekwini Water & Sanitation to connect 1.3 million to piped drinking water while helping togenerate $520 million per year. This is as well as connecting over 700,000 citizens to wastewater services.Winner of the 2014 Stockholm Industry Award, he was credited with helping eThekwini to serve as a“sterling example for the many communities worldwide facing similar challenges”. Not content with fully

retiring, Macleod is now travelling the world to promote driving down water losses.

21 PADDY PADMANATHAN, CEO, ACWA POWER INTERNATIONAL, UAE A civil engineer with 30 years of experience, Padmanathan built ACWA Power to become aleading developer of privately financed power generation and desalination water production plants inthe GCC and MENA region. Over eight years, he grew the business into a $1.3 billion company to deliver2.4 million m3/day of water and 13,000 MW of power. An engineering graduate from the University ofManchester, UK, he started his career with a British Consulting Engineering practice, before moving ontoBlack & Veatch.

20 LEON AWERBUCH, PRESIDENT, LEADING EDGE TECHNOLOGIES, US Known as the “hybrid desalination pioneer”, Awerbuch has been involved in the desalination business for 40 years. He was also one of the early pioneers of desalination aquifer storage and recovery.

Past president of the IDA and chairman of six IDA World Congresses, he holds 23 patents includingthe MED-MSF-RO-NF integrated hybrid technologies and has published over 80 technical papers. Hereceived a Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry from Warsaw Technical University.



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19 MUNIR CHERYAN, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, MUNIR CHERYAN, US Dr. Munir Cheryan is founder and president of consultancy Munir Cheryan LLC which providesconsulting services in bio-separations, particularly membrane technology. He has been a consultantto and/or served on technical advisory and/or management boards of over 55 companies, frommultinational giants to start-ups, as well as government organisations and the UNDP-FAO. He has beenfounder, chief scientific advisor and/or president of three start-up companies since 2001. He has 16 issuedUS and Canadian patents and is the author of the best-selling Ultrafiltration Handbook.

18 KAZUO YAMAMOTO, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, JAPAN Yamamoto was the inventor of the submerged membrane bioreactor concept in 2008 and ledresearch and development into membranes for advanced water treatment and reclamation. He receivedthe Sidney Loeb Award from the European Desalination Society for invention of the submergedmembrane bioreactor concept. He graduated from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at theUniversity of Tokyo in 1979.

17 KHOO TENG CHYE, FORMER CEO, PUB, SINGAPORE Chief executive of Singapore utility PUB from 2003 to 2011, Khoo can be credited with turningSingapore’s water utility into a world leader: reducing its reliance on water imports from Malaysia and

making direct wastewater reuse publically acceptable. Beginning his career at the Urban RedevelopmentAuthority, he helped transform Singapore’s urban planning and regulatory regime. A graduate in civilengineering from Monash University in Australia, he also holds a Masters of Science in ConstructionEngineering from the National University of Singapore.

16 NEIL MCDOUGALL, EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, MODERN WATER, UK A qualified chartered accountant, Neil McDougall co-founded Modern Water and was jointlyresponsible for helping to bring a university R&D project on forward osmosis through to commercialisationand installation in Gibraltar and Oman. A chartered accountant, McDougall was formerly chairman ofMid Kent Water Group and chairman and CEO of Cascal NV and a director of Biwater. He has workedextensively with private equity investors and infrastructure funds.

15 DR ANDREW BENEDEK, CEO, ANAERGIA, HUNGARY A leading authority on global water issues, Dr Benedek founded Zenon Environmental in 1980,growing the business to become a leader in membrane treatment before being sold to GE. With over 30years experience in wastewater treatment, he won the Stockholm Water Industry award in 2003 and theLee Kuan Yew Water Prize in 2008. Chairman and CEO for Anaergia, Dr Benedek graduated from McGillUniversity with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering and PhD from the University of Washington.

14 BORIS LESJEAN, R&D PROGRAM MANAGER, BERLIN CENTRE OF COMPETENCE FOR WATER, GERMANYA well-respected researcher in Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) technology, Lesjean has been working since1997 in R&D related to urban water management. For the past 10 years he has been with the Berlin

Centre of Competence for Water, where he initiated, developed and coordinated applied research anddevelopment projects, with a focus on membrane technologies. He has coordinated several Europeanprojects, including the FP6 project “AMEDEUS”, dedicated to the development of membrane-activatedsludge processes. Since 2006 he has been developing the MBR-Network.

CHOOSING THE TOP 25 – HOW WE DID IT

You may be thinking that selecting only 25 individuals out of the

thousands, millions that work in the global water industry was a tough

job. It was. So to help we put together a small advisory committee of

experts to submit their nominations.

With the list of 25 compiled, we then surveyed WWi readers to voteon who they think deserves to top this list of 25. After two rounds of

voting, the results (and the winner) were clear. Readers from Canada

all the way to Australia voted. We would like to thank the following

individuals for their help on the committee:

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13 PROFESSOR TONY FANE, DIRECTOR, SINGAPORE MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY CENTRE,SINGAPOREA chemical engineer with a PhD from Imperial College in London, Professor Fane has developedmembrane theory and application since 1973 when he joined the University of New South Wales in

Sydney, Australia. He is a former director of the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technologyand the director of the Singapore Membrane Technology Centre (SMTC) at Nanyang TechnologicalUniversity in Singapore. SMTC has a group of over 80 researchers dedicated to applied research intomembranes for the water cycle.

12 OLIVIA LUM, CEO, HYFLUX, SINGAPORE It was in 1989 when Olivia Lum left her corporate life as a chemist with Glaxo Pharmaceutical tostart up Hydrochem, the precursor to Hyflux. Managing the group for 25 years, she has helped Hyfluxexpand into an international business, winning major projects in Singapore and overseas in Algeria andrecently Oman. A true entrepreneur, Lum won the Nikkei Asia Prize for Regional Growth 2006 and theErnst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year 2011. She holds an Honours degree in Chemistry from the

National University of Singapore.

11 DR WILLIAM MUHAIRWE, SENIOR TEAM LEADER, 2ML CONSULTING (FORMER CEO,UGANDAN NATIONAL WATER & SEWERAGE CORPORATION - NWSC), AFRICAHaving managed public companies in Uganda and abroad for more than 19 years, Professor Muhairwe hasreceived many international awards, including from the International Water Association in 2010. In 1998 hetook over the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) as managing director – a state organisationthat was almost collapsing due to mismanagement. He was then responsible for one of the African waterindustry’s greatest success stories. Over the course of 13 years he grew NWSC to become one of the mostsuccessful and profitable utilities in Africa.

10 LISA HENTHORNE, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, WATER STANDARD, US Holding three patents in water treatment, Henthorne has more than 25 years of experience in thedesalination and water treatment industry. The first female president of the International DesalinationAssociation from 2007-2009, while heading the desalination business for CH2M Hill, she acted as technicaladvisor on many challenging projects in the Middle East, Australia, US and Asia. Henthorne graduatedfrom the Colorado School of Mines with a Masters of Science in Chemical Engineering and Missouri StateUniversity with a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry.

9 AMARTYA SEN, PROFESSOR, INDIA

A Nobel Prize winner in 1998 for his “contributions to welfare economics”, Sen is seen as one ofthe key thinkers in international development and helped to shape the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs). Educated at Presidency College in Kolkata, he went on to receive a B.A, M.A and PhD fromTrinity College, Cambridge. In 1998 he was appointed master of Trinity College, Cambridge - a position heheld until 2004, when he returned to Harvard as Lamont University Professor. His views and publishedwork have helped shaped policy maker’s decisions.

8 DR BORIS LIBERMAN, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, IDE TECHNOLOGIES, ISRAEL Active in the field of desalination for 20 years, Dr Liberman developed the Pressure Centredesalination concept, Direct Osmosis Cleaning, 16” membrane arrangement in a vertical position and has

overseen some of the largest projects in the world. He has pending applications in reverse osmosis forpower generation. A graduate of the Institute for Scientific Research in Water Supply, Moscow, he holdsseveral granted patents in the field of reverse osmosis desalination.

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7 MIRIAM BALABAN, SECRETARY GENERAL, EUROPEAN DESALINATION SOCIETY, US A chemistry graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, Miriam Balaban has served as thesecretary general of the European Desalination Society (EDS) since its founding and has authored morethan 9,000 papers over 40 years of desalination research. In 1966 she founded the journal Desalination: The

International Journal on Science. In 2009 she was awarded the EDS Lifetime Achievement award for hercontributions to the field. She also helped establish the School for Science Communication, Mario BegriInstitute for Biomedical Research in Italy.

6 DR ADIL BUSHNAK, CEO, BUSHNAK GROUP, SAUDI ARABIA Dr Bushnak helped establish the International Desalination Association (IDA) and led the privateSaudi effort to commercialise the use of direct seawater for irrigation to produce food crops. He hasplayed a key role in promoting water desalination technologies such as reverse osmosis, ultrafiltrationand membrane filtration for seawater desalination, helping the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) becomethe largest desalination country worldwide. He is chairman of Bushnak Group headquartered in the KSA,

which has several companies active in water, environment and energy services.

5 PROFESSOR SIMON JUDD, PROFESSOR OF MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY, CRANFIELDUNIVERSITY, UK Professor Judd lectures at Cranfield University in the UK and Qatar University in the Middle East.He has 22 years’ experience in teaching the fundamentals of water and wastewater technologies andhas completed over 30 post-graduate research student project programmes. He has managed over 15large industrially-funded projects for UK and overseas water utility and technology suppliers, and hasprovided consultancy and training to clients in North America, Europe, the Middle East and the Far East.

4 MIKE MARKUS, MANAGER, ORANGE COUNTY WATER DISTRICT (OCWD), US Markus joined OCWD in 1988, overseeing construction of many water facilities. In 2002 he wastasked with managing a $481 million Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS). As a result, he hashelped OCWD pave the way for public acceptance of water recycling for indirect potable use, replicatedin countries such as Australia and Singapore. Under his leadership, GWRS won 21 awards, including theStockholm 2008 Industry Award and Lee Kuan Yew Prize 2014.

3 DR JAMES BARNARD, GLOBAL PRACTICE AND TECHNOLOGY LEADER, BLACK &

VEATCH, SOUTH AFRICAWinner of the 2011 Lee Kuan Yew Prize in Singapore for “revolutionising used water treatment”,technologist Dr James Barnard was recognised for his ground breaking invention of Biological NutrientRemoval (BNR) technology, an environmentally sustainable, biological method to treat used water.Internationally recognised as the “Father of BNR”, Dr Barnard began exploring the possibility of removingphosphorus and nitrogen from used water when faced with water quality challenges in his native SouthAfrica and arid Namibia in the 1970s.

2 PROFESSOR ASIT BISWAS, FOUNDER, THIRD WORLD CENTRE FOR WATERMANAGEMENT, INDIAAcknowledged universally as one of the world’s leading authorities on water management, Professor Asit

K. Biswas has been a senior advisor to 19 governments, six heads of the United Agencies and secretarygeneral of OECD. Professor Biswas also advises four multinational companies in the top 50 of the Fortune500 companies. He is a past president of the International Water Resources Association and co-foundedthe World Water Council. Author of over 80 books, his work has been translated into 37 languages.

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WWi readers have had their say. Your votes have been added up to decide the winner of this year’s Top 25

Industry Leaders. Please step forward, Neil Palmer, CEO, National Centre of Excellence in Desalination

Australia (NCEDA). Tom Freyberg caught up with the CEO while on his travels across the US.

LEADER OF THE PACKAustralia’s Desalination Guru Claims Top Spot

Water & Wastewater International

magazine (WWi): Congratulations on

taking first place in WWi magazine’s

25 Industry Leaders. How do you feel

about that accomplishment?

Neil Palmer, CEO, National Centre of

Excellence in Desalination Australia

(NCEDA): I’m very humbled. I would

consider it a very significant honour to be regarded as one of the industry’s topleaders. I’ve been in the water industryfor 40 years now. One does try to makesensible decisions, recommendations

and findings. I’ve met a lot of peoplein that period and I’m delighted andhumbled that people feel that I’veachieved some recognition for my workin water.

WWi: No need to be so humble –

you’ve clearly had a fruitful career.

We last spoke to you at the IDA World Congress in Perth about the

formation of the NCEDA. How is this

developing?

Neil Palmer: The NCEDA has beenestablished five years now. It is nowcompleting its 50th project of a wide

range of activities in order to improvedesalination efficiency and providesolutions for people, particularly inremote and outback areas of Australia.The achievements have seen a biginternational recognition of the centre’swork. We’ve made good progress within

this period. One of the interestingchallenges is to continue the work giventhe financial constraints in Australia.NCEDA comprises 13 Australianuniversities and CSIRO and our baseis at Murdoch University in Western

Australia.

WWi: But you’ve just travelled 36

hours to be in America? That’s a long

way from home…

NP: Correct. I’m now in Tucson(Arizona) with Professor Wendell Elaof the University of Arizona, who hasaccepted the position of desalination

and water treatment professor atMurdoch University. He starts in January. We’re very excited to see this

establishment of desalination research

and teaching at Murdoch University asa direct outcome of the activities of theNCEDA.

WWi: Desalination is gearing up in

the US, particularly California. There

are perhaps some similarities with

Australia before your big desalination

push in 2004?

Tomorrow I’ll actually be in California.There’s been a lot of scaremongeringand wildly inaccurate statements aboutdesalination in California. I’m here toprovide some factual information. It’simportant that people understand.

WWi: So you’re sharing lessons from

Australia on how to deal with negative

publicity?

NP: We have some experience toshare – we had to build plants quickly.Between 2004 to 2012 we delivered sixlarge seawater desalination plants overthe eight year period. That’s AUD $12

billion dollars’ worth of investment. Sowe were able to fast track them becausewe were facing the drought. Had the

drought continued, we could have run

S Top spot: Out of 25 nominated leaders in the global water

industry, Palmer was voted number one by WWi readers

WHILE THE MELBOURNE DESALINATIONPLANT IS NOT BEING USED NOW, IN ITS

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a major city out of water, it was thatserious. No government can stand backand do nothing when that scenariois approaching. There will be moredroughts and [desalination] providestremendous security. And frankly, thecost for Melbourne residents for this

insurance is AUD$0.40 per day perperson. That’s not an unaffordable cost.It’s probably a lot less than you payfor house and contents insurance. It’ssmall price to pay for no future waterrestrictions.

WWi: When you wrote an article

for WWi three years ago, the theme

was “desalination has come of age”

in Australia. Things have changed

considerably since. What’s the current

situation with the built desalination

capacity?

NP: In the eastern states, it seemed tofollow a pattern: build a desalinationplant and then the rains fell. However,Australia has a very variable climateand two things are certain: there will bedroughts in the future and populationand water demand will grow. So someof the desalination plants that aren’t

being used at the moment are essential

to provide future water security,particularly to Sydney and Melbourne.Melbourne is growing rapidly andis expected to double in population by 2050. There’s no other new watersupplies that are available. So whilethe Melbourne plant is not being used

now, in its design life - which is morethan 50 years – it will be relied upon toprovide water security and avoid futurerestrictions in water supply. This is aswell as making sure Melbourne remainsone of the world’s most liveable cities.

WWi: Talking about the future,

how important is leadership in the

water industry to attract younger

generations of engineers?

NP: One of the exciting aspects of

water and desalination is the use ofrenewables to power desalination and

provide fresh water in places wherethey never had it before. I think the useof renewable desalination will attractyoung minds. I think it has already.All the Australian desalination plantshave their energy completely offset bywind energy. You could argue that thedesalination plants are carbon neutral in

their operation phase. That’s something

we are proud of. It’s more expensive butit is something that people are conscious

of and the utilities that built the plantsrecognise this. Certainly for myself,it’s not the desalination process that’sfascinating, it’s creating the fresh waterand the possibilities this brings.

WWi: How is the Desalination

Discovery Centre helping to spread

the word on some of this work you’re

doing?

NP: Over the years, the DesalinationDiscovery Center has reached out tomore than 6000 children. It’s been avery effective means of explainingdesalination issues such as energy usage

and the impact on marine environment.For example, we have a desalinationplant in Perth that’s been operating foreight years at 100% flow into CockburnSound – a confined body of water. Therehas been no adverse impact on theenvironment on the intake or the outfall.

WWi: You say you’ve had 40 years in

the business – I can’t imagine you will

want to eventually retire quietly with

all your desalination knowledge. What

are your plans?

NP: I’ll be around for a few more

years yet Tom! There are many newadventures to be had. What I’ve learnedover the 40 years has been put to gooduse with sensible decisions. And inthat case a sensible decision meansthat places like Perth have a numberof supplies, but desalination is partof the portfolio to make sure you get

optimum use of the water and you getwater security. That’s a message I’velearned. Also, we’ve had some of the

technical research projects, which may bring water security to indigenouscommunities in Australia. That’s a veryworthwhile objective. There are health benefits for the people in the long-term.

To be involved in projects that benefitlocal people who have had unreliableand poor quality water supplies issomething I would like to continue tohelp with.

WWi: That sounds like a worthy cause.

Thanks for your time Neil and again,

congratulations on being crownedthe winner of WWi magazine’s Top 25

Industry Leaders series.

BIO BOX - NEIL PALMER

Palmer has degrees in civil and public health engineering. His professional experience includes

the South Australian Engineering and Water Supply Department, the Fiji Public Works

Department, the South Australian Environment Protection Authority, United Utilities Australia

and general manager, technical services at Osmoflo, the largest Australian desalination

company. He is currently the CEO of the National Centre of Excellence in DesalinationAustralia, a partnership of 14 Australian universities conducting desalination research. Palmer

is the vice president of the Asia Pacific Desalination Association, a director of the International

Desalination Association and life member of the Australian Water Association.

S Teamwork: Palmer (right) with Professor Wendell Ela (left), who has accepted the position o f desalination and water

treatment professor at Murdoch University

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The global picture for water and

wastewater projects reveals

some key markets starting to

make good on their promised potential

and various interesting niches being

exploited, while activity in some of the

more mature markets remains relatively

flat.

Consultancy Envisager’s David Lloyd

Owen, who for many years produced

the much-missed Pinsent Masons Water

Yearbook, notes that it has been a “fairly

quiet” year for water and wastewatercontracts. “There doesn’t seem to have

been any great change in recent trends

on the municipal side,” he observes.

“There has been a little bit of progress in

size and scope in the private sector.”

Much of the action has been taking

place outside Europe, he adds, although

the giant French players, Veolia and

Suez Environnement, have been very

active and continue to expand. India and

China are a strong focus for water and

wastewater activities, and he sees more

impetus coming from locally-basedcompanies.

The industrial sector is also more

active, Lloyd Owen notes, and it is

here that innovation is taking place.

“It has been a waiting year, generally

speaking,” he says.

However, quiet ground is often an

ideal place for interesting developments

to take root. Lloyd Owen observes:

“At the development stage, there is a

remarkable amount of innovation taking

place: things like smart water and low

energy wastewater treatment.” This

makes 2014 an interesting year, he adds

– somewhat lacking in major headlines

but exciting behind the scenes.He observes: “We are living in most

exciting times, but whether utilities

will be adopting these technologies is

another question altogether.”

EUROPE

In this extremely mature marketplace,

Lloyd Owen tips Ireland as a market

to watch. “There have been massive

demonstrations against paying for

water. There doesn’t seem to be any give

and take from the government – if they

had said yes, you must pay for yourwater but we will take something off the

tax bill, that would have worked, but

they haven’t.”

WATER’SHIGHS & LOWS:2014 YEAR

REVIEW

Although 2014 may have been

quiet on the municipal contract

activity, it’s the industrial activities

providing room for growth. WWi

provides an overview of the major

contracts won over the course of

2014, region by region.

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There has already been significant

investment on the wastewater side, but smaller schemes for smaller towns- comprehensive refurbishment andextension - are needed. “The practicalemphasis has to be on smaller schemes,”Lloyd Owen says. “If they are going tocharge for water, people will want to see

better services for their money.”A number of significant contracts have

nevertheless come through elsewhere inEurope. In April Suez Environnement,via its subsidiary Safège, won a five-year, €17 million ($21.3 million) contract

to project manage long-term partnerSyndicat des Eaux d’Ile de France’s

(SEDIF’s) drinking water supplystructures. Safège will project managepotable water plants and recovery,storage and transfer facilities, andwill also project manage long-termprogrammes to renew distributionpipelines between 2015 and 2017 in theOise and Marne areas, representing

102 municipalities and €60 million ($75million) worth of work.

A municipal contract for Nova Gorica

on Slovenia’s Italian border awarded in January sees rival Veolia undertakinga $20.98 million contract to providean EU-financed wastewater treatmentplant using its Biosep® MBR treatment

plant with a sludge dryer treatmentline capacity of 52,000 PE. The mainconsultant is Slovenia’s Projekt.

Veolia has also won a contract tosupply an anaerobic wastewatertreatment plant for a new Paulaner brewery on a greenfield site inLangwied, near Munich - by far the

largest project for a brewery in Germanyfor the next few years. The plantcapacity is 2800 m³/day, with a CODload of 23,500 kg/day.

In the Netherlands, the company

recently commissioned a sweet contractfor the Mars plant in Veghel, the world’slargest chocolate factory. The solutioninvolved building and operatinga wastewater treatment facilityequipped with Veolia’s Memthane™anaerobic MBR technology (combining

Veolia’s Biothane anaerobic biologicalwastewater treatment and Pentair’sX-Flow ultrafiltration membraneseparation process), which can turn99% of organic pollution into a sourceof biogas. The solution – in its first use

in Europe - will cut the Veghel plant’s

energy bill by 10%. Veolia was maincontractor on the project.In the UK, Thames Water’s massive

and controversial London Tidewayproject is undoubtedly the largestaround. Thames’s key contractscommissioned in 2014 support its

ambitious strategy to minimisewastewater discharges to the tidalThames.

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and major upgrades to its Becktonand Crossness wastewater treatmentworks, worth £222 million ($348 million)and £220 million ($344.8 million)respectively.

Black & Veatch provided its servicesto another recently commissioned major

contract, helping United Utilities unlocka valuable source of renewable energyat its massive Davyhulme wastewatertreatment works. The upgradedManchester facility uses biogas togenerate green energy - enough to meet

its own power requirements and exportto the National Grid.

Somewhat further south, a ModernWater Services/Northumbrian Water joint venture won preferred bidderstatus in October for a new wastewatertreatment plant serving Gibraltar.The £22 million ($35 million) DBFOproject will treat urban wastewater andstormwater flows for the entire territory.

MENA

The Middle East – North Africa

region will once more be a key areaof interest in the near future, LloydOwen predicts. “We are forecasting a big uplift from next year onward,” hesays. Desalination may be losing some

of its favoured status while wastewaterrecycling gains favour as a less resource-intensive option for irrigation, butactivity is by no means at an end.

For example, in Saudi Arabia, theSaline Water Conversion Corporationrecently announced plans to increasedesalination capacity to cope with

rising demand, and contracts comingon stream soon in the kingdom include Jubail 3 and the Jeddah 3 desalinationfacility. The country is also increasingly

turning towards membrane solutions,and there are a few solar desalinationtrials taking place. “It’s all a question ofscale and cost, in the long run it could be very interesting,” says Lloyd Owen.“Once the capex spend is over, it couldhave quite an interesting impact on

operating costs.”One important traditional project

in the region teams Japan’s Hitachiwith Veolia Environnement throughits subsidiary OTV. Together withEgyptian engineering firm Arabco, the

consortium recently won an engineer,procure and construct (EPC) contract for

a pre-treatment system and ancillariesincluding the river water intakeand water transport facilities for adesalination plant in Basrah, Iraq.

The order, from the Iraqi Ministryof Municipalities and Public Works, isworth Y24 billion ($203 million) in total,of which the Hitachi/Veolia share is

around Y10 billion ($84.5 million).Construction was set to begin in

October and completion is scheduled for

April 2017.Suez subsidiary Degrémont won

a major contract to design, constructand operate the desalination elementof the new Mirfa independent water

and power project, 160 km west of AbuDhabi city, which is worth a total of €146million ($182.8 million). South Korea’sHyundai Engineering & Constructionchose the Suez subsidiary to build theRO plant as part of an Abu Dhabi Waterand Electricity Authority (ADWEA)contract.

Mirfa will have a 140,000 m3

/daycapacity and will use SeaDaf filtrationtechnology to pre-treat the algae-richArabian Gulf water, followed by a

double RO system. This contract will befollowed by a €29 million ($36.3 million)

contract for the plant’s operation andmaintenance, awarded to Degrémont bythe Mirfa International Power & WaterCompany.

In Morocco, Biwater Internationalrecently commissioned a newwastewater treatment works for thecity of Khenifra, incorporating trickling

filters to improve odour control andthe quality of the effluent discharged.The client was the Office National del’Electricitéet de l’Eau Potable – BrancheEau (ONEE), and the project benefitsaround 150,000 residents.

AMERICAS

“What has been happening in theAmerican market is most interesting –it has seen the development of muchmore focused contracts, with companiestaking on aspects of water managementrather than the whole,” says LloydOwen.

On the municipal side it has been“business as usual” he says, with moreprogress on the specific outsourcingside. The reason, he notes, is that thereis “less political risk involved. It issimpler.”

America remains a fascinating place,he adds – the bastion of free enterprise,

but with attitudes towards water thatrun counter to this principle. “It is a bigchallenge for the water industry,” hesays.

The significant projects for MWHGlobal this year are good examplesof the move towards more focusedsolutions, as they include some major

environmental creation and restorationactivities and a significant CSOalleviation contract.

MWH is providing engineeringand design services for the Easterlytunnel dewatering pump stationproject, one of the largest CSO pumpstation projects in the US and a critical

element in addressing CSOs for thecity of Cleveland and surroundingcommunities in northeast Ohio.

The 605,000 m3/day project for theNortheast Ohio Regional Sewer Districtwill involve constructing a massivepump station 240 ft underground tohouse nine pumps. This will enable the

city’s stormwater storage tunnels tocapture flows in a controlled way - thesewould otherwise have been dischargedto surface waters, causing urban

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flooding and discharges of sanitarysewage to the environment. This

project is due to complete in late 2016.Engineering design cost on the project is$6.94 million, and the total construction budget is $73.2 million.

Several high profile environmentalimprovement projects have alsostarted up: the South Florida WaterManagement District awarded the high-

profile Everglades restoration projectin mid-June, for which MWH willprovide construction management andengineering services to help implementthe $880 million Restoration StrategiesRegional Water Quality Plan.

California’s drought has led to muchtighter restrictions on groundwater use,

and this is also generating opportunitiesfor projects. For example, CH2M Hillwas awarded a $141.2 million contract by the Woodland-Davis Clean WaterAgency for the cities of Davis andWoodland to develop and operate asystem to treat surface water from the

Sacramento river. The project, which hasa 2016 deadline, will replace existinggroundwater sources.

A number of interesting contractshave been awarded in South America,including Degremont’s €30 million

($37.6 million) EPC contract to providewater treatment facilities for Klabin,

Brazil’s biggest packaging paperexporter. Degremont will provide a5900 m3/hour process water plantequipped with its Densadeg technologyfollowed by Aquazur filters, and a boilerfeedwater plant with an ion exchangesystem.

ASIA

“China is clearly the place where thingsare happening,” says Lloyd Owen.

“It stands out above all others. Waterproblems there are now at the pointwhere they are affecting development,which provides the incentive to makeprogress.”

The country also now has a truenational player, Beijing EnterprisesWater Group (BEWG), which provideswater and environmental services toaround 70 million people. “Three to fouryears ago there were no Chinese playersserving more than 13 to 14 millionpeople. BEWG is the first company with

customers across China rather than aregional player,” Lloyd Owen says.

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and recently announced it has wonpreferred bidder status for the secondChangi NEWater plant DBOO project inSingapore.

China has a national strategy toimprove wastewater treatment by90% over five years, which has giventremendous impetus to improvements.BEWG recently signed a $288 millionB-loan agreement with the AsianDevelopment Bank (ADB) to upgrade

and operate wastewater treatmentplants across the country to meet the1A standard, the country’s strictestrequirements for wastewater treatment.

Treated wastewater will be reusedfor industrial and urban environmental

uses including machine cooling, boileroperation and construction site cleaning.

The country’s Water PollutionPrevention and Control plan is expectedto be introduced this year or next, andinvestment in the water sector is forecast by analyst Barrons to increase to CNY2trillion ($326.7 billion) between 2016 and2020, with tighter policy enforcementand government monitoring as well as

stricter discharge standards.Underlining the market’s buoyancy,

the joint venture Yangzhou Sino

French Environment Company wona 20-year contract in February worth€24 million ($30.1 million) to operatethe Yangzhou sludge drying plant in Jiangsu province. The contract will

start in 2015 and involves drying 300t/day of sludge, rising to 500 t/day,mainly from Yangzhou’s Tangwang andLiuwei facilities, which serve 4.5 millioninhabitants.

Sembcorp has been carving its ownniche in the burgeoning industrialwastewater treatment market – it was

chosen by the Jiangsu EnvironmentProtection Department to acquire andupgrade a 20,000 m3/day industrialwastewater treatment facility for

the Lianyungang Lingang chemicalindustrial park in Jiangsu province.The upgraded plant will be able totreat highly concentrated industrial

wastewater and will serve as a modelfor other industrial parks in theprovince.

Meanwhile, Veolia has also beenmaking inroads in China. In the oil andgas market, it signed a key project inMay for the Veolia/Sinopec operating

jv, Beijing Yanshan Veolia Water. Forthis project, Veolia’s proprietary OPUStechnology will be used to reclaim 200m3/hour of brine and enhance recoveryfrom an existing UF/RO refinerywastewater recycling system. Main

consultant on the project is SinopecNingbo Engineering Company and

the main contractor is Beijing YanhuaConstruction Engineering Company.

In Singapore, a joint venture betweenBlack & Veatch (B&V) and AECOM waschosen in June by PUB, Singapore’snational water agency, to provideengineering services for Phase 2 of theDeep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS).

The B&V+AECOM jv will work withPUB to shape one of the most significantand anticipated water projects in Asia.

The Drainage Services Department(DSD) of the government of the HongKong Special Administrative Region(HKSAR), has awarded Black & Veatch(B&V) a feasibility study project to

relocate Sai Kung wastewatertreatment plant to caverns.The effort is part of theHKSAR government’spolicy to boost landsupply for long-termdevelopment needs.The company is

also celebratingcompletionof a 10-yearprogramme

to improve drainage works in EastKowloon. Construction of the 46,000

m3/dayPasay wastewater treatmentplant in Manila was a January win forVeolia that involves a $25 million DBOcontract with a one-year O&M period(for process proving).

The plant design and layout take intoconsideration a future upgrade to meetfuture standards, which are expected

to be stricter. The plant will incorporateVeolia’s primary settlement - activatedsludge – UV solution.

The main consultant was Arup attender stage and OEC at constructionstage, which started in May.Commissioning is due in early 2015.

The Indian market is also finally

taking off in spectacular fashion. “Weoften forget about India,” says LloydOwen. “One of the most interestingthings is a culture shift – a lot of utilitiesuntil recently said that as long as wedeliver water regularly we don’t need todeliver it continuously.”

Wastewater contracts are also finally beginning to appear – Prime MinisterNarendra Modi recently made a“swatcha” (cleanliness) pledge that aimsto create a “clean India”, a concept thatincludes ending open defecation by the

150th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi on 2October 2019.

Austria’s Va Tech Wabag won a Rs250Cr (€40 million) JICA-funded contractfrom BWSSB at the beginning of theyear to design and construct a 90MLDwastewater treatment plant at BellandurAmanikere in Karnataka, with a sevenyear O&M period.

SPML Infrastructure has picked

up a number of contracts across thecountry. One example of the company’simpressive workload being a recent

R372.70 Cr ($60.2 million) order from thePublic Health Engineering Department(PHED), Jodhpur, for a water supplyscheme for 256 villages and the townof Bhinmal, with a

Teamwork: Labelled as one of the most significant water projects in Asia, Phase 2 of the Deep Tunnel Sewerage

System (DTSS) was awarded to a B&V+AECOM jv

Construction of the 46,000 m3/day Pasay wastewater

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10-year operation and maintenancephase. Other recent awards include aRs164.60 Cr ($26.6 million) order fromBangalore Water Supply and Sewerage

Board (BWSSB) to improve the city’swater distribution system, reduceunaccounted-for water and undertakeleakage control, topped by a five-yearO&M phase.

AUSTRALASIA

Municipal desalination has lost itsimpetus in most urban areas apart fromPerth with the easing of Australia’s“big dry” – with more abundant rains.Many of the country’s landmark projectsincluding the Melbourne, Sydney

and Gold Coast plants (and shortlyAdelaide, when its two-year trial period

is completed in January) have beenmothballed.

“The practicalities remain prettyunimpressive,” Lloyd Owen remarks.“Now that dams are filling up again,the one area of change may well bein considering private investment inmaintaining and managing dams as well

as pondering new ones.”On the industrial side, he notes that

Queensland is pondering offering

50-year leases for 16 industrial waterpipelines operated by Sun-Water.

Some of the biggest contracts thisyear have involved supplying waterto remote mining and industrial sites.

GHD undertook a key element of amajor AUD$300 million ($258.3 million)contract to construct the Mundaringwater treatment plant in WesternAustralia, a 165,000 m3/day facilityexpandable to 240,000 m3/day.

Helena Water will operate andmaintain the plant for 35 years, and

further contracted Acciona and Trilityto design, construct and commission thefacilities, with the design undertakenin collaboration with GHD. State utility

Hunter Water Corporation also awardedVeolia a contract this year to operate andmaintain 25 of its water and wastewatertreatment plants in New South Wales’s

Hunter region.The €193 million ($241.8 million)contract is the largest ever awarded bythe utility and involves Veolia operatingand maintaining the plants, whichsupply services to over half a millionpeople in the region.

In New Zealand, Mott MacDonaldwon a contract from Watercare Servicesto design the NZD63 million ($49.5million) expansion of Auckland’sRosedale wastewater treatment plant,one of a series of projects intended to

cater for predicted population growth.The expansion includes a new 3

km pipeline and pump station, anadditional primary sedimentation tank,digester and feed tank system, and amodified Ludzac k Ettinger reactor totreat wastewater. The project is due tocomplete in 2019.

Meanwhile, TaKaDu won a contractextension from Queensland water

utility Unitywater on an expansion ofa trial project to improve the utility’soperational visibility and efficiency

and reduce costs and water losses. Jacobs, TaKaDu’s Australian technologypartner, managed the deployment

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