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(Sharecast News) - Water treatment and filtration solutions provider Amiad Water Systems announced on Tuesday that it provided its water filtration solutions for the Tuas Desalination Plant in Singapore, which was launched on 28 June as the country's third desalination plant.The AIM-traded company said it was appointed by HSL Constructor, the project's construction contractor, and Tedagua Singapore, which designed the plant, through a competitive bid process to supply ultrafiltration (UF) and reverse osmosis (RO) membrane protection solutions.It said Singapore's National Water Agency, PUB, had identified seawater desalination as a solution to the country's increasing water demand, which was expected to double by 2060.The Tuas Desalination Plant, owned and operated by PUB, could produce 136,000 cubic metres of water per day - equivalent to 54 Olympic-size swimming pools - through the treatment of seawater by more than 14,000 RO membranes.It was the first desalination plant in Singapore to use "advanced pre-treatment technology", which Amiad described as a combination of dissolved air-floatation and ultra-filtration.Amiad said it provided a total of 224 filters for the Tuas Desalination Plant, consisting of 22 units of 4 x 10" Super Galaxy filters for UF membrane protection and 34 units of 4 x 10" Super Galaxy filters for RO membrane protection.The filters treat 13,900m3 of water per hour for UF membrane protection and 12,800m3 per hour for RO membrane protection."We are delighted to have been a part of this project to provide Singapore with its third desalination plant," said Amiad chief executive officer Dori Ivzori."It is vital that we, as a society, use all of the means at our disposal to meet the increasing demand for fresh water and we congratulate the Singapore government on their success in driving the development of desalination in the country."We thank HSL and Tedagua for choosing Amiad for this important project and we hope to continue to work together on similar projects going forward."