- 27 March 2008 -
High safety compact units
Christ Water Technology Group has launched the Septron Line series, claiming it can produce ultrapure water in various qualities and quantities.

- 25 January 2008 -
Small desal plants for arid regions
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have successfully tested a range of small desalination plants which work with an autonomous power supply.

- 11 January 2008 -
Biomimetic membranes with better transport than RO
Researchers at the University of Illinois, USA, have developed biomimetic membranes that show significantly higher water transport than existing reverse osmosis (RO) membranes.

- 7 January 2008 -
Product innovation award for KMS
Koch Membrane Systems (KMS) has won the Frost & Sullivan Product Line Leadership of the year Award for its focus on product innovation and quality.

- 25 October 2007 -
Severn Trent supplies technology in Vietnam
A reverse osmosis (RO) system from Severn Trent Services has been selected for the largest build/operate/transfer RO project in Vietnam.

- 3 August 2007 -
First desal plant for UK
The UK government has granted planning permission for a desalination plant in London - the first modern plant of its type to be built in the country.

- 18 July 2007 -
GE leads on salt recovery desal in South Africa
GE Water & Process Technologies is to design and construct a reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant in South Africa providing 70,000 m3/day of fresh water.

- 7 July 2007 -
The growing need for desalination in India and
the Far East
The Far East and India are facing challenges - growth in population number and density, and growth in industry - which threaten already tenuous resources. Zoe Grainge takes a look at this region and sees how desalination is being used to ensure access to clean water.

- 12 June 2007 -
Filtration system increases flux rates
Dynaflow, Inc has developed DynaPerm, a system designed for the enhanced high flux rate filtration of particles from liquids.

- 30 May 2007 -
Australians collaborate to deliver energy-efficient desal
Australian research agency CSIRO and nine Australian universities are to collaborate to improve the energy-efficiency of water desalination in that country.

- 4 May 2007 -
Major desalination plant for Southern California
Poseidon Resources Corp is to design, construct, and launch a new US$270 million desalination plant in Carlsbad, California, USA.

- 26 March 2007 -
Nanotube membranes for better flow control
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA have found a more precise way to control the flow of water through carbon nanotube membranes by fusing wet and dry nanotechnologies.