ASIA WATER NEWS IN BRIEF

* Queensland’s Traveston Dam proposal has been rejected by the Australian federal government, meaning the state will have to implement alternative water resourcing strategies, including desalination and reuse.

The state is likely to tender for a doubling of the output capacity of the Bundamba and Luggage Point advanced water treatment plants, and will bring forward the construction of new desalination plants at Lytton and Marcoola.

* Further west, Dow’s Filmtec reverse osmosis membranes have been selected for the Southern Seawater Desalination Plant near Perth in Australia. The elements ...

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