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on the 12 June 2007. It owns, installs and operates advanced membrane technologies and develops and supplies systems for water monitoring. In December 2011, the company completed its acquisition of the water quality division of Strategic Diagnostics Inc. ("SDIX"), including its Microtox toxicity testing technology. In January 2024, it was announced that Microsaic Systems had acquired the company.

Divisions

Membrane Process Division

Modern Water has developed a number of

Forward Osmosis Forward osmosis (FO) is an osmotic process that, like reverse osmosis (RO), uses a semi-permeable membrane to effect separation of water from dissolved solutes. The driving force for this separation is an osmotic pressure gradient, such that a " ...

(FO) membrane processes including:

desalination Desalination is a process that removes mineral components from saline water. More generally, desalination is the removal of salts and minerals from a substance. One example is Soil salinity control, soil desalination. This is important for agric ...

, evaporative cooling systems,

enhanced oil recovery Enhanced oil recovery (abbreviated EOR), also called tertiary recovery, is the extraction of crude oil from an oil field that cannot be extracted after primary and secondary recovery methods have been completely exhausted. Whereas primary and se ...

and hydro osmotic power (HOP). Modern Water has deployed

as a platform technology to produce both desalinated water and evaporative cooling make-up water , with sites in

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and at a pilot plant in

Gibraltar Gibraltar ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory and British overseas cities, city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the A ...

. In 2014, Modern Water is the only company in the world with a commercial Forward Osmosis plant which is located in Al Najdah in

. Construction of the plant was completed in September 2012 and it is now being operated by Modern Water. In March 2010,

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magazine cited forward osmosis as one of three technologies that promised to reduce the energy requirements of desalination. In 2013, Modern Water contracted to build desalination projects in China, which require more water in some areas for drinking and for irrigation. One of the company's main competitors in Asia is Consolidated Water. Following the success of its Gibraltar forward osmosis pilot plant, In 2014, Modern Water and Northumberland Services signed a 22 million pound, 20-year contract to build and operate a wastewater plant on the rock of Gibraltar.

Monitoring Division

The Monitoring division develops systems for monitoring and improving water quality. It provides acute toxicity monitoring systems for online, portable and lab use, together with on-line and portable trace metal measurement technology. Modern Water has installed its systems in various countries worldwide, from local installations in the UK"Severn Trent Water selects OVA7000 water monitoring tool"
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References

External links

Modern Water plc Home Page
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Annual Report and Accounts 2014Annual Report and Accounts 2013Annual Report and Accounts 2012
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