Hydrotek Plc (HYDRO), the MAI-listed water company, wants to launch small hydropower plants worth 500 million to 1 billion baht in Laos in the near future. Chief executive Slib Soongswang said the company will join Universal Adsorbents & Chemicals, the MAI-listed alternative energy and water management company, to explore possibilities in the neighbouring country. "After being involved in the water busi ...

China Electricity Council (CEC) president Liu Zhenya announced that the country’s installed capacities for wind and hydro power had grown to be the world’s largest. The country is rapidly increasing its construction of hydro power projects. The country is already home to the Three Gorges Dam Project (TGP), the world’s largest hydro power complex project, which includes approximately one million square kilom ...

The Indian government has approved the construction of the 300-MW Lakhwad hydroelectric plant in the northern state of Uttarakhand. The US$724.3 million plant will be developed by Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam (UJVNl), which is a joint venture between the state and India's central government. Uttarakhand officials say the state will contribute about a third of Lakhwad's costs, with the federal government pay ...

To harness water resources for electricity generation, two memoranda of understanding (MOU) have been signed by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) and Korean firms. The agreement involves developing two hydropower projects in a public private partnership with a cumulative power generation capacity of 1,161 MW. The agreement emerged from President ...

Son La, the largest hydropower plant in Southeast Asia, went on stream on December 23, three years ahead of schedule. Ground was broken for the plant in Muong La town in the northern province of Son La in late 2005, and it was expected to be completed only in 2015. It is on the Da River, the main tributary of the Red River. The spillway is situated on the right bank and contains eight spillway gates and 12 ...

The Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board has set the ball rolling for the resettlement of over 1,500 families who reside on Chennai Metrowater’s conduit pipeline. With the State government recently approving two projects at Athipattu near Ambattur to construct 1,472 tenements at a total cost of Rs.118 crore, residents can expect to move to the stilt + 4 apartments by mid-2014. Apart from the economically weaker ...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday emphasized on adoption of state-of- the-art water conservation practices especially in the agricultural sector and treatment of the sewerage water to ensure optimum utilization of the water resources being the scarce and essential commodity for maintaining human life. The President was addressing the inauguration ceremony of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Clean Drinking ...

Taiwan plans to build additional desalination plants in Penghu and Kinmen counties, a move expected to significantly increase freshwater supplies for the outlying areas, according to the ROC Ministry of Economic Affairs. The Penghu facility, which is to be situated in the county capital of Magong City, will be funded by the Water Resources Agency to the tune of NT$800 million (US$27.5 million). Currently un ...

Authorities have formulated a plan to boost the seawater desalination industry as an alternative to quench the country's thirst for water, China's top economic planner said on Wednesday. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said China aims to produce 2.2 million cubic meters of freshwater per day by 2015, compared with 660,000 cubic meters in 2011, according to the 2011-2015 plan, the first ...

Israel's IDE Technologies will help construct and run a $1 billion desalination plant along the coast of southern California to help alleviate the region's water shortage. The facility, expected to begin operations in 2016, will produce 54 million gallons (204,412 cubic meters) of potable water each day, making it the largest sea water desalination plant in the United States, IDE said in a statement on Thur ...