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Posted at 10/7/2012 15:06 by freddie01
Un-salting the Earth: Jerry Patterson's Desalination Ambitions



Texas is sitting on a massive amount of "brackish" water. Too salty to drink, but far less salty than ocean water. A lot of it is just sitting there, below our freshwater aquifers. And there's enough of it to satisfy the current Texas population for a hundred and fifty years. But how do we get to it, and how much will it cost to do so?

That question is now on the mind of the Texas General Land Office. Today Commissioner Jerry Patterson proposed building some smaller desalination projects in Central Texas to help meet water demand in the region.

"Everyone says the state's population is going to double by 2060," Patterson tells StateImpact Texas. "And I guess you could say there's enough water. But it's not in the right place."

Patterson, who's running for Lieutenant Governor in 2014, is looking at several sites that belong to the commission's Permanent School Fund, all of them along the I-35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio. "Anything we do to produce water for Central Texas reduces the impact on the Highland Lakes," Patterson says. "That's not only good for the folks that live around the Highland Lakes, it's also good for those downstream consumers." Patterson says less water taken out of the lakes means more for rice farmers, bays and estuaries, utilities and the petro-chemical industry.

But isn't desalination expensive and energy-intensive?


GRAPHIC BY GENERAL LAND OFFICE
The desalination project would use brackish water deep underground and make it fresh.
"Yeah, it is," says Patterson. "It's about twice as expensive as some of our more traditional ways to acquire water." And while desalination and reverse osmosis filtration require a lot of power, he says that they're looking at the potential to power the plants, perhaps just in part, using renewable energy like solar and wind.

But Patterson thinks the investment would pay off, whether or not the money for the plants comes from the General Land Office or private investors. "The market is in play here," he says. "We have the shortage of a commodity. We have increasing demand. Therefore the price of that commodity – what was thought to be expensive in the past, may look like a bargain in the future."

The proposal would be far from establishing the first desalination plant in the state, all of which are inland at the moment. There are dozens of desalination plants currently in Texas, and more on the way. And El Paso has the largest municipal desalination facility in the country, capable of processing over 27 million gallons of water a day.

Patterson is quick to point out that he sees desalination as just one part of the solution to the state's looming water crisis. He also advocates more conservation, accessing more groundwater supplies, and moving water from areas where it's a surplus to where it's needed most.

The agency has hired two water engineering firms to analyze the land. Patterson says that if all goes well, they could be breaking ground on the first of the plants in eighteen months.
Posted at 17/6/2012 11:10 by freddie01
UK must modernise aging water infrastructure or face more shortages says report








The industry body's State of the Nation: Water (11-page / 2.4MB PDF) report calls for the construction of new water storage facilities across the country and the removal of regulatory barriers to allow more interconnection between networks. It has also proposed the phased introduction of universal "discretionary" metering, with higher tariffs for non-essential use, and for a "Water Security Taskforce" to plan for dwindling supplies.
"We are a populous nation facing a growing gap between what we can supply and what our water users need," said Michael Norton, chair of the ICE's water panel. "Sadly it's only when hose-pipe bans are inflicted on us that the public has any glimpse of this reality. We have a valuable opportunity while water is in the forefront of the nation's minds to impress on the public the real value of this resource and we mustn't squander it."
Currently most households pay a flat rate of £1 per day for unlimited water use according to the ICE, a rate that it says is "unsustainable" given the cost of water treatment and the volume of water used for activities, such as watering the garden, that do not require treated water. A 30% reduction in the amount of water used per home and the introduction of higher tariffs for those who use more than this amount would encourage a "shift in public attitudes", it said.
A ban on the use of hosepipes for recreational use, to water gardens or clean vehicles or premises came into effect across much of the south east of England in April. Thames Water, which supplies nine million customers in the London area, intends to reconsider the ban at the end of the month following recent heavy rainfall.
Although the recommendations would require "some upheaval" to the current regulatory regime, the effects would be seen "relatively quickly", said Norton. A "time-bound" plan by the proposed Water Security Taskforce could put the UK at level 8 or 9 on a 1-10 water security level scale by 2025, according to the report, as opposed to the UK's current score of 4.
Water and sewerage services in England and Wales are provided by private companies overseen by an economic regulator, while in Scotland and Northern Ireland they are provided by publicly-owned companies. However, the ICE said that water was a "shared resource", and called on all of the administrations to cooperate on its proposed water security 'roadmap'.
Encouraging the individual water companies to collaborate on new resources would allow them to "share both investment costs and risk," the report said. It suggested the increased use of smaller "distributed infrastructure" projects at local level, such as household and community-scale rainwater harvesting and home recycling, rather than the creation of a "costly and environmentally damaging" 'national grid' or pumping water across the country to areas where supplies are more restricted. Water companies should also be encouraged to share supplies with adjacent regions if necessary, it added.
The report also called for a "new approach" to the type of large infrastructure projects proposed and constructed, calling for "significant investment" from Government and regulators rather than the current incremental approach to infrastructure maintenance.
The recent Water White Paper and last month's announcement of a draft Water Bill contained "some positive steps", according to the report, but these intentions must now be delivered "without delay" and in the context of a UK-wide vision, the ICE warned.
"ICE is disappointed that the UK government will not present a full Water Bill for water industry reform in England and Wales this Parliamentary session," it said in the report. "The water security challenges faced by the UK require urgent attention. Without this important legislation the changes needed to manage water more sustainably will be delayed further and the risks to water security will only increase."
Posted at 26/4/2012 14:49 by skyship
Praipus posted this on his great WAM thread yesterday:

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Nicholas John Greenwood post_7 collects 5% of H2O


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NG is an impressive private investor who some will recognise from the glorious SPLITs days of 2002-5. His more recent play has been the building of a 7% stake in Private Equity play PEQ, where his quite recent £2.8m investment is now valued @ c£3.6m.

The above addition to his H2O stake takes him to 4.66m (6.4%) ; so should one be following in his footsteps? Well, H2O appears to be a beneath-the-radar PE opportunity standing at a very steep 63% NAV discount. Of particular interest from this week's IMS is this extract from the Chairman's statement:

"Ordinary Share price:

The Company's stock price continues to trade at a substantial discount to the NAV and the Directors are conscious of this fact. The Directors review the relative and absolute performance of the share price regularly and consider measures to improve the liquidity of the Ordinary Shares and narrow the discount and will continue to do so in the future.

Shareholders will recall that, at the interim stage, I had said that the Board was very aware that the prevailing discount in the share price to the Company's Net Asset Value was a source of continuing concern to shareholders and that we were, as a Board, seeking alternatives which could include, inter alia, "some form of corporate action such as a possible merger or consolidation with other assets or similar funds and/or an examination of the merits of the Company maintaining its public listing."

The Board has explored these alternatives and has been in active discussions with the core shareholders but unfortunately, in spite of our efforts and those of our advisers, no credible alternative has emerged as yet.

Our efforts on this front will continue as the Board believes that some form of corporate action is the most appropriate future course for the Company and its shareholders to adopt. However, as I said in my previous statement, an acceptable solution will take time. I do assure shareholders, on behalf of the Board, that our efforts on this front will continue apace and further announcements will be made as soon as we have something material to report."



Another recent RNS was for the appt of Fergus Dunlop as a non-exec. Personally, having viewed his career profile, I find this a wholly positive appt for the prospects of H2O, in particular the likelihood of a successful corporate outcome.



Perhaps an interesting one to put away in your bottom drawer! I bought a small initial stake @ 35c. The quote is in Euros - Current share price = 33c-35c
Posted at 16/12/2010 08:56 by m.t.glass
Serious retail order for HALO (from India) lifted its share price this morning.
Posted at 05/7/2009 01:18 by spob
MIDAS by Joanne Hart: Water on tap, and cash soon

Last updated at 6:43 PM on 04th July 2009
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In today's world, consumers are confronted with numerous choices about what to buy, what to try and what to leave alone.

Most purchases are discretionary, even if they seem vital at the time. But some things are truly indispensable - and the most essential of them all is water.

Fresh water makes up only a fraction of the world's total and demand for it is increasing yearly as the population rises and emerging economies develop. At the same time, climate change is said by many experts to be reducing the supply of fresh water. And in less than 20 years, two-thirds of the world's population, or five-and-a-half billion people, are forecast to be living in areas where water is in short supply.
Shortages could have huge implications for health and well-being of billions and for entire countries' economic prospects. Even London is said to be running short of water and is looking for ways to boost supplies.
Simon Humphrey CEO Modern Water (left) and executive chairman Neil McDougall


Modern Water is addressing these sorts of issues head on. It is involved in the complex process of desalination --taking seawater and making it drinkable. The idea is not new but most desalination procedures use huge amounts of electricity, so they are expensive and bad for the environment. Modern Water's technique is different. Pioneered at Surrey University, it produces large amounts of water at a low cost in an environmentally-friendly way, using a filtration process known as reverse osmosis.


More...MIDAS: If you don't need the money now, hold on at Lloyds
Midas Extra share tips: Tribal Group & Lombard Medical Technologies (thisismoney.co.uk)

The company already operates a small plant in Gibraltar and last week announced that this was performing ahead of expectations. It is also building a desalination unit in Oman, part of a plan to expand across the Middle East.
Modern Water is run by executive chairman Neil McDougall, former head of Mid Kent Water, and Simon Humphrey, who has worked in the water and investment industries for years.
So far they are doing well. The company has £26 million in the bank, the projects in Gibraltar and Oman have not been terribly costly and McDougall and Humphrey are proceeding with caution elsewhere in the world. But the next 12 months could revolutionise this business.
The Gibraltar plant produces about 20 cubic metres of water a day but the Oman unit should produce between 100 and 150 cubic metres and it is supposed to be operating by the end of the summer. Provided it works as well as Gibraltar, Modern Water should receive a host of orders and may even receive partnership approaches from larger, wealthier companies.
• Midas verdict: Modern Water joined the Alternative Investment Market in 2007 and is at an early stage of its development, so much so that it has not yet made any money.
But this should change dramatically as the company's technology is more widely adopted and it builds more plants. Modern Water is not a stock for the cautious, but for those willing to take a bit of a punt, the shares could prove richly rewarding. There is a growing need for fresh water, supplies are shrinking and this company seems to have found a way to help.
The shares are trading at 44p, which reflects simply the cash on the balance sheet, so there is no value attributed to the desalination technology
Posted at 22/2/2009 15:09 by imabastard
Mtg .... one that (although not Uk listed) appears to be lifting at a pace is AWTI, easily tradeable through a Uk broker .... on the back of an Air to Water installation in India. It is reported to have the backing of the regional Indian government and traded through PVT in India. It had a price of 30 cents and is currently at around 2 cents, rising from a base of a quarter of a cent. If it reaches 30 cents again, it's market cap will still only be $500,000 (half a million $). Best place to read the recent market announcements on the stock is by looking at Etrade USA (you don't have to have an account). There are no guarantees with any stock but certainly interesting.
Posted at 14/1/2009 12:11 by ted32
I'm still waiting for my Bluewater share cert. which I asked for almost 2 months ago.
Anybody else out there who has experienced the same problem?
Posted at 29/10/2008 13:54 by rivaldo
I thought you chaps might be interested in this article on HYD:



"October 15, 2008
Water, Water Everywhere... But Not Enough (Clean) Stuff To Drink
By Sally White

Even the official global water stats are terrible – l.1billion lacking safe drinking water, half all hospital beds filled by people suffering from water-related disease. Given the rising incidence of water-created chaos in floods across the UK, Europe and the US due to our increasingly volatile weather, unofficial water pollution and its impact is undoubtedly much higher and more dangerous.

The regulators are on to this. Tough water regulations have been coming into force in the EU and US. All of which is excellent news for a small UK company, Hydro International. The AIM-quoted £20 million cap company has a range of technologies to control water run off, treat storm water, combined sewage overflows and municipal wastewater. Relatively tiny though it is, Hydro is a world-leader in designs to bring cost-effective solutions for controlling quantity and improving quality of water.

Too small to attract much attention, it has nonetheless been growing steadily. Interim figures to end-June show sales up 35 per cent from £11million to £14.9 million, bringing pre-tax profits up 27 percent from £0.8 million to £1 million and giving earnings per share of 4.93p. This has come from both organic growth and acquisition, and there will be more of the latter given Hydro's prudent nurturing of its cash flow – outsourcing manufacturing. It closed the period with £3.7 million cash and equivalents. Forecasts are to sales this year to reach £32.2 million, giving earnings per share of 13.6p, up from 11.9p, and a dividend of 2.1p. For 2009 the forecast is for earnings of 16.3p and a 3.4p dividend, and these numbers for 2010 are 18p and a dividend of 3.7p.

Given that UK house builders had been the biggest single source of Hydro's business (15 per cent of sales) and the US economy was slowing rapidly, past progress and future expectations show the widening interest in its products. Sales are now also being made into Asia, with a new distribution agreement signed in Malaysia as well as another EU one in Belgium.

While chief executive Stephen Hides calls the current business environment (with some understatement) "challenging", he expects further progress to be made on growing Hydro. The marketing effort and acquisition targeting are designed to spread the net wider yet. Hydro is in the market for complementary technology to add to its circa 20 products, as well as for good customer lists.

A few months ago Hydro bought major US competitor, Oregon-based Eutek, in a £7 million deal. On the same day it was able to announce a £1.6 million contract for its Hydro-Brake flow control devices as part of a flood-prevention scheme in Glasgow. Eutek is important as it has patented equipment to remove fine grit, sugar sands, abrasives and solids from wastewater. Since this is the stuff that clogs up membrane filters, pumps and pipes, Eutek technology is invaluable. This adds a new dimension to the Hydro product list, built up since it was founded in 1980. Originally this was based around vortex technology, although in recent years it has added water storage, filtration and drainage devises.

Manufacturing is done by third-party engineering and fabrication companies based in Europe and North America, and sold through a wide network of independent distributors.

On its side is the urgent need of both UK and US governments to alleviate flood damage. The EU has its Water Framework Directive, with strict targets to be met by 2015. House broker KBC Peel Hunt anticipates that "this should boost Hydro's sales of storm water treatment products from 2009". Added impetus will be coming from the US Clean Water Act and other directives which force companies there to remove contaminants from storm water, and take steps to prevent sewers overflowing in storms. The US target dates are 2011 and 2012 and it is only just beginning to insist on measures that are standard in Europe, such as separation of sewage from storm water systems. As a result the aftermath of US flooding is particularly unpleasant, and positively dangerous. Hydro has products that tackle all of these issues, plus products for use in flood prevention programmes.

KBC Peel Hunt says "...these drivers should continue to benefit Hydro for many years to come." Thus, while the state of the UK and US housing markets, and a lag between the current and next EU directive, are likely to hold back Hydro's growth in the coming year, the medium term prospect looks very attractive. Profit breakdown is currently 61/39 per cent storm water/waste water management. Big buyers of the products are infrastructure builders, so Hydro will be gaining from the construction of new roads, rail and hospitals. For the UK, says KBC Peel Hunt, the likely drop in housing-related orders should be more than offset by work by water companies, on infrastructure and on "accelerated investment in flood control in the wake of 2007's disastrous floods." Much of the UK's water system dates back into Victorian times, and would need upgrading even without the escalating demands of weather and regulation!

US sales growth will be driven by tighter pollution control and the 10 per cent per annum rise in the grit removal market. Hydro is also encouraging US pipe and pre-cast concrete manufacturers to incorporate Hydro's devices within their products. The US is spending US$5 billion a year on improving its antique water systems. Outside these core markets Hydro is licensing products to companies in Australia, South Korea and New Zealand. And to help it in the more distant Asia-Pacific markets it is seeking local manufacturers.

The shares are quite a long way down from their peak – hardly surprising given its size and the state of the market. Even in the last year it has been up to 180p and the peak was around 240p, while it currently trades at around 130p. Since it has few competitors the chances of profile-raising orders to help both sales and shares look good."
Posted at 26/10/2008 21:57 by praipus
If you like desaslination and energy from wind and wave power take a look at Renewable Energy Holdings PLC REH. They own the IP for CETO. CETO uses wave power to pump salt water on to land. Using the pressure created to desalinate the sea water and generate electricity. Very clever not fully commercialised yet but has attracted EDF as a share holder and has trials in australia at present. In the meantime they develop, manage and own their own wind farms, cash generative already.
Posted at 11/9/2008 08:46 by serotine
Modern Water (MWG) Tipped in today's Independent

Modern Water

Our view: Buy

Share price: 89.5p (unchanged)

Arguing that investors should buy a stock in these iffy markets is hard enough, but when the company in question has not yet made a penny of revenues, the task is even tougher.

However, punters should buy Modern Water. The company is a water technology outfit, whose main business is running desalination plants using what they call manipulated osmosis technology: a method of osmosis that, they claim, is cheap and more efficient than normal desalination techniques.

The group issued its fairly inconsequential interims yesterday, but, more importantly, next week it will announce that its first plant in Gibraltar will be up and running, with clients in place. Following hot on the heels of that news will be the announcement of further deals, particularly in the Middle East.

Modern Water has no debt and £28.7m on its balance sheet. The company says that global spending on securing water sources in the next 10 years will reach $57bn (£32.4bn), and, while the group is very small fry indeed, next week's news should prove a boost to the share price, which has tailed off from year highs of 112.5p.

There is no getting away from the fact that Modern Water is a speculative punt and investors certainly should not bet their mortgage on the company, but, with the group set to start making money, now would be a good time to get in. Buy.
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