American Water Works Association in cooperation with the California Energy Commission has selected MWH Americas to identify and document international desalination related research and development (R&D) efforts and compile them in an user-friendly, readily searchable database.

The global desalination community is widely dispersed and informally organized around numerous specific disciplines. MWH has assembled a team of internationally recognized researchers from the USA, Asia, Australia, Europe and Middle East, who will reach out to the desalination community to collect meaningful data from each region and discipline to develop a database that consolidates R&D efforts undertaken since the publication of DESALNET (AWWA 2002).

The research project will be under the direction of Principal Investigator, Dr. Russell Ford. Supporting this effort will be the Project Engineer, Celine Trussell; Research Coordinator, Tom Pankratz; End-User Needs Assessment Committee Coordinator, Dawn Guendert and Peer Review Committee Chairperson, Dr. Samer Adham.

This database will provide utilities and all interested parties a resource for efficiently addressing their need for information that could help them improve the energy efficiency, reliability and costs of their desalination facilities. MWH will utilize a web-based database system, that will allow for updating the information as needed and allow users to access information without the need to download or obtain new software. Continue....