Financing

Four projects focused on water quality improvement through increased conservation practices by farmers will receive nearly $3.1 million in state funding, the Iowa Department of Agriculture

Four projects focused on water quality improvement through increased conservation practices by farmers will receive nearly $3.1 million in state funding, the Iowa Department of Agriculture said Monday.

Businesses and agriculture and conservation groups will provide $2.59 million in matching money or in-kind contributions, the state said.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has loaned EUR 100 million to the Helsinki Region Environmental Services to finance the construction of a wastewater treatment plant

The energy efficient plant will perform to very high environmental standards and replace an ageing plant serving several municipalities in the Helsinki region.

Planned to be operational from the end of 2020, the new plant will treat in 2040 the wastewater of a population of 550 000 and occupy a surface area of approximately 13 hectares, of which 10 underground.

18 SIPs across the country devised to solve issues such as raw sewage spillage, as well as unlock job opportunities and improve service delivery in the Africa

But much has changed for Msukwini since those days. He now owns a home with a flush toilet inside his house, thanks to a multibillion-rand project the government has introduced to help people like him.

The Sedibeng Regional Sewer Scheme (SRSS), a project expected to cost about R4.2-billion, is set to change many lives in the municipal area of Sedibeng.

Severn Trent PLC has entered into a binding agreement to sell its Water Purification business to its joint venture partner, Milan-based private company Industrie De Nora.

The transaction values the total enterprise at $99 million. 

The group's share of $81.2 million will be settled through a cash payment of $20.1 million and the balance through the settlement of net intercompany debt. The sale is expected to complete on or around June 30.

GBV, the joint venture comprising Galliford Try and Black & Veatch, has been awarded the Derby's Our City Our River project, a flagship flood risk management scheme where partnership funding has been achieved by combining flood management with urban regeneration

The members of the Canadian Shipowners Association (CSA) are leading the search for ballast water technology on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Waterway by collectively contributing an initial $1.5 million dollars to the establishment of a research and technical evaluation fund

$126-million desalination water plant commissioned in Ghana

President John Dramani Mahama on Friday announced that for the past five years, government had spent over one billion dollars in the execution of water projects in some parts of the country.

He said while some of the projects had been completed in Kpong, Kyebi and Mampong, among others, others in Wa in the Upper West Region, and Kumawu in the Ashanti Region, were under construction.

The World Water Council and The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are calling on policy makers and business leaders to address financing water infrastructure to provide water security for the demands of the global population and global economy

German water tech startup akvola Technologies are looking for pilot projects and long-term partners in the SWRO and produced water markets.