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Organization:

Afton Pumps, Inc.

Contact:Michael Derr
Title:President
Address:PO Box 9426
Houston, TX 77261, USA
Phone:713-923-9731
Email:miked@aftonpumps.com
Website:www.aftonpumps.com
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Allen, Boone, Humphries, Robinson, LLP

Contact:Harry Thompson
Title:Attorney
Address:3200 Southwest Freeway, Suite 2600
Houston, TX 77027, USA
Phone:713-860-6486
Email:hthompson@abhr.com
Website:www.abhr.com
Description:Allen Boone Humphries Robinson LLP is devoted to the practice of public law and public finance of infrastructure. Our clients construct, finance, and operate the public water, sewer, drainage, road, and park facilities that allow Texas to grow, develop, and flourish. Our focus on public entities and those doing business with public entities allows us to best serve our clients in this unique area of the law. ABHR attorneys have a broad background in public law and public finance. With experience and innovation, we represent municipal utility districts, water districts and authorities, tax increment reinvestment zones, municipal management districts, cities, counties, and other public entities. ABHR serves as general counsel, bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel, disclosure counsel, and tax counsel. ABHR also represents developers and others doing business with public bodies.
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American Water Chemicals, Inc.

Contact:Mo Malki
Title:President
Address:1802 Corporate Center Lane
Plant City, FL 33563, USA
Phone:813-246-5448
Email:mmalki@membranechemicals.com
Website:www.membranechemicals.com
Description:American Water Chemicals® (AWC) was created in 1993 by a group of membrane desalination experts in response to the demand for more reliable membrane treatment chemicals and services. Over the years, our unique understanding of water chemistry has earned us a worldwide reputation for resolving complex operational issues. AWC® has become renowned as one of the most trusted suppliers of membrane chemicals for RO/NF systems. Our goal is to enable our customers to meet their increasing water production demands, cope with concentrate disposal restrictions, and reduce their energy consumption through the use of our membrane antiscalants, cleaning chemicals and biocides.
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Brazosport Water Authority

Contact:Ronald Woodruff
Title:General Manager
Address:1251 FM 2004
Lake Jackson, TX 77566, USA
Phone:979-297-2715
Email:rwoodruff@bwawater.org
Website:www.brazosportwaterauthority.org
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Brownsville Public Utilities Board

Contact:Jaime Estrada
Title:Director of Operational Support Services
Address:1425 Robinhood Drive
Brownsville, TX 78521, USA
Phone:956-983-6579
Email:jestrada@brownsville-pub.com
Website:www.brownsville-pub.com
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Bureau of Reclamation, Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Facility (BGNDRF)

Contact:Malynda Cappelle, PhD
Title:Facility Manager
Address:500 La Velle Road
Alamogordo, NM 88310, USA
Phone:575-443-6540
Email:mcappelle@usbr.gov
Website:www.usbr.gov/research/bgndrf/
Description:The Center for Inland Desalination Systems (CIDS) vision is to make sure that every person in the world has clean water. Located at The University of Texas at El Paso, CIDS staff and faculty are advancing the science and technology of desalination and innovative water treatment through the integration of students in research projects for publications, patents, and theses/dissertations; supporting local, regional, state, federal, and international agencies; and contributing towards UTEP's recognition as a national research university with a 21st century demographic. To be able to achieve this, CIDS has identified three areas of action; research, technology development, and global impact.
Organization:

CalDesal

Contact:Glenn Farrel
Title:Executive Director
Address:925 L Street, Suite 600
Sacramento, CA 95814, USA
Phone:916-216-1747
Email:glennf@caldesal.org
Website:www.caldesal.org
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Carollo Engineers, Inc.

Contact:Justin Sutherland, PhD, PE
Title:Chief Technologist
Address:12585 W. Explorer Dr., St. 150
Boise, ID 83713, USA
Phone:208-327-2693
Email:jsutherland@carollo.com
Website:www.carollo.com
Description:Carollo Engineers is an environmental engineering firm specializing in the planning, design, and construction of water and wastewater facilities. We currently maintain 42 offices in 16 states. During our 85-year history, Carollo has successfully completed more than 20,000 projects for public sector clients. Carollo is currently ranked within ENR’s top 500 design firms, and ENR’s annual Source Book ranks Carollo among the top 20 firms for water and wastewater. Unlike our competitors, Carollo only provides water and wastewater services and we are the largest water-only firm in the country. Carollo leads the industry in applying cutting edge, cost effective features to our conventional, membrane, and desalination designs, including energy recovery, automated operational data management, open-platform membrane design and procurement, and advanced media filter control algorithms. Our attention to these details produces facilities that operate efficiently, reliably and safely.
Organization:

Cinco Municipal Utility District No. 1

Contact:Michael Price
Title:President
Address:3200 Southwest Freeway
Houston, TX 77027, USA
Phone:713-860-6408
Email:mprice5322@comcast.net
Organization:

City of Alice

Contact:Demetrio O Duarte, Jr
Title:Public Works Director Utilities
Address:P.O. Box 3229
Alice, TX 78333, USA
Phone:361-460-0644
Email:demetrio.duarte@cityofalice.org
Website:www.cityofalice.org
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City of Portland

Contact:Cathy Skurow, PE
Title:Mayor
Address:1900 Billy G Webb Dr.
Portland, TX 78374, USA
Phone:361-777-4513
Email:cathy.skurow@portlandtx.gov
Website:portlandtx.gov
Organization:

Danfoss High Pressue Pumps

Contact:Alex Silva
Title:Sales Manager - Central USA
Address:11655 Crossroads Circle
Baltimore, MD 75098, USA
Phone:410-931-8250
Email:alexander.silva@danfoss.com
Website:https://www.danfoss.com/en/about-danfoss/our-businesses/high-pressure-pumps/
Description:Danfoss High Pressure Pumps (HPP) is a fast-growing division of the Danfoss Group. We are a leading global player within development and manufacturing of high-pressure pumps and energy recovery devices. Based on Danfoss’ decades of experience with developing pumps for critical applications, our division has pioneered the development of axial piston pump technology to bring all the advantages of positive displacement pumps to high-pressure applications. Our customers benefit from Danfoss’ industry-leading R&D resources and best-in-class quality systems as well as its worldwide manufacturing, distribution and service networks. Building strong partnerships with our customers is of great importance to us, because it is purely by understanding our customers’ needs that we can meet the expectations of tomorrow.
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EPCOR USA, Inc.

Contact:Michael Irlbeck
Title:Director of Business Development
Address:2355 West Pinnacle Peak Rd
Phoenix, AZ 85027, USA
Phone:512-851-7565
Email:mirlbeck@epcor.com
Website:www.epcor.com
Description:Our mission is to provide clean water and safe, reliable energy. Our vision is to be a premier essential services company that attracts and retains the best employees, is trusted by our customers, and is valued by our stakeholders.
Organization:

Ector County Utility District

Contact:Tommy G Ervin, MP-MPI--OSSF 1
Title:President
Address:1039 N Moss Ave.
Odessa, TX 79763, USA
Phone:432-381-5525
Email:t.ervin@ervinplumbing.com
Website:www.ectorcountyutilitydistrict.org
Description:ECUD is a West Odessa Municipal Water Supplier with 5277 Active Service Connections. ECUD's goal is to become the first authorized supplier of Public Drinking Water from Produced Water sources. Ultimately, ECUD plans to becoming a Regional Water Supplier. ECUD's goal is not depend on surface water. ECUD will do whatever it takes to not Rely on Lakes
Organization:

El Paso Water

Contact:Angel Bustamante, PE
Title:Water Systems Division Manager
Address:1154 Hawkins Blvd.
El Paso, TX 79925, USA
Phone:915-594-5401
Email:abustamante@epwater.org
Website:www.epwater.org
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Fluid Equipment Development Company - FEDCO

Contact:Rory Weaver
Title:Marketing Director
Address:800 Ternes Drive
Monroe, MI 48162, USA
Phone:734-241-3935
Email:rweaver@fedco-usa.com
Website:fedco-usa.com
Description:FEDCO is a global leader for innovative, efficient, and reliable pumps and energy recovery devices (ERDs) that address the challenges of brackish and seawater reverse osmosis (RO) desalination. Our equipment sets the global standard for efficiency and reliability demonstrated in over 5,000 installations. In BWRO applications we can provide energy recovery and interstage boosting, maximising BWRO system recovery and efficiency. In SWRO applications, our BiTurboTM solution can be retrofitted to any SWRO system to achieve up to 60% recovery without compromising on membrane performance. FEDCO’s pumps and energy recovery devices unlock the potential of desalination technology, reducing our customers’ cost of water.
Organization:

GHD Services, Inc.

Contact:Mike Pankratz
Title:Senior Operations Consultant
Address:2021 Amado Lane
League City, TX 77573, USA
Phone:832-380-7676
Email:mike.pankratz@ghd.com
Website:ghd.com
Description:GHD is one of the world’s leading professional services companies operating in the global markets of water, energy and resources, environment, property and buildings, and transportation. Privately owned by our people, GHD provides engineering, environmental, advisory, digital, and construction services to private and public sector clients across five continents and the Pacific region. Focused on creating lasting community benefit, our connected global network of 10000 diverse people delivers projects with high standards of safety, quality, and ethics. Committed to sustainable development, GHD improves the physical, natural, and social environments of the many communities in which we operate. www.ghd.com
Organization:

Gulf Coast Water Authority

Contact:Brandon E. Wade, MPA, PE
Title:General Manager/CEO
Address:3630 FM 1765
Texas City, TX 77591, USA
Phone:409-797-4927
Email:bwade@gcwatx.gov
Website:www.gulfcoastwaterauthoritytx.gov
Description:A political subdivision of the State of Texas created and operating under the provisions of Article XVI, Section 59; Chapter 712 of the Constitution of Texas, Acts of the 59th Legislature of Texas, Regular Session, 1965 compiled as Article 8280-339, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes as amended.
Organization:

Hydro Systems, Inc.

Contact:Donald McGhee
Title:President
Address:1501 N 28th Street
Harlingen, TX 78550, USA
Phone:956-423-4932
Email:dmcghee@hydrosystemstx.com
Website:www.hydrosystemstx.com
Description:For over three decades Hydro Systems, Inc. has been providing water treatment system design, fabrication, installation, and service solutions, for companies in many markets in the USA and Mexico utilizing technologies such as: Reverse Osmosis, Brackish Water Desalination, Deionization, Filtration, and Disinfection. Industries Served Include: Food & Beverage Processing; Ice Production; Bottled Water; Process Water & Rinse Systems for various manufacturing processes including fiber optics & paint processes; Produce & Vegetable Processing; Livestock Production and Processing; Boiler Feed Water; Plant Central Potable Water Systems; Process Water Recycle & Reuse.
Organization:

IDE Americas, Inc.

Contact:Mark M. Ellison
Title:Director Business Development - Texas
Address:7404 Brickyard Court
Austin, TX 78745, USA
Phone:979-676-2601
Email:marke@ide-tech.com
Website:www.ide-tech.com
Organization:

IDE Technologies

Contact:Chris Morss
Title:North America Director P3
Address:5050 Avenida Encinas, Suite 250
Carlsbad, CA 92008, USA
Phone:760-583-6699
Email:chrism@ide-tech.com
Organization:

INTERA

Contact:Steve Young, PhD, PE, PG
Title:Principal Geoscientist
Address:9600 Great Hill Trails, Suite 300 W
Austin, TX 78758, USA
Phone:512-425-2071
Email:syoung@intera.com
Website:www.intera.com
Description:As engineers and scientists, we welcome this charge — to drive forward human innovation while being meticulous stewards of the planet and its resources. In every engagement, on every project site, in every partnership, and with every decision we make, we seek to improve the natural and built environments around us and to enrich the communities that have entrusted us.
Organization:

Invenergy Clean Water, LLC

Contact:John Niland
Title:Vice President, New Technology Development
Address:One South Wacker Drive, Suite 1800
Chicago, IL 60606, USA
Phone:312-224-1400
Email:jniland@invenergy.com
Website:www.invenergy.com
Description:Invenergy is the leading private clean energy developer with 30GW of sustainable projects, including the largest solar project in the US based in Texas. Invenergy Clean Water builds upon Invenergy’s strength as a global developer & operator of sustainable energy solutions with almost 20 years of experience developing, building, and managing complex energy projects including water treatment. Invenergy Clean Water develops, finances, and operates reliable and sustainable clean water solutions for industrial and municipal needs. Invenergy’s experience in clean water solutions includes raw water treatment for gray water, demineralization via reverse osmosis, and wastewater treatment.
Organization:

Kiewit

Contact:Josh Tebbe
Title:Business Development Manager
Address:4790 Regent Blvd., Suite 150
Irving, TX 75063-2407, USA
Phone:405-439-3692
Email:josh.tebbe@kiewit.com
Website:www.kiewit.com
Description:General Contractor | We understand that each project is unique and we work with our clients to determine the best delivery method to support their project, be it a collaborative procurement or a traditional design-bid-build. Our tailored project execution approach layers client standards over Kiewit’s proven procedures to produce a customized, high-quality design which provides a seamless project execution and delivery for any water and wastewater project in North America
Organization:

Localized Water Solutions, LLC

Contact:Joseph Lamy
Title:CEO
Address:1717 W 6th Street, Suite 212
Austin, TX 78703, USA
Phone:512-431-0122
Email:joe.lamy@localizedwater.com
Website:www.localizedwater.com
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NorrisLeal, LLC

Contact:Bill Norris, PE
Title:Principal
Address:12400 W. Hwy. 71, Ste. 350-306
Austin, TX 78738, USA
Phone:512-473-8288
Email:bnorris@norrisleal.com
Website:www.norrisleal.com
Description:NorrisLeal, LLP, is a fresh take on decades of proven engineering expertise plus outside-the-box thinking that combines the best of both traditional and innovative technologies, including brackish and seawater desalination and water reuse. The company is anchored by Bill Norris and Jesus Leal, former principals of NRS Consulting Engineers, and David Pettry, and supported by a cadre of skilled and adept in-house project managers, draftsmen, and accounting and administrative staff, as well as outside consultants in fields ranging from modeling to economics and finance to governmental relations and public outreach and creative financing and construction capabilities. NorrisLeal has decades of experience in the planning, design, and project management of municipal and industrial water and wastewater facilities, in the research and application of advanced treatment methods of potable and reclaimed water, and extensive expertise in the design and implementation of pilot and full scale brackish groundwater and seawater desalination facilities. NorrisLeal principals have been instrumental in the expansion of brackish groundwater desalination in Texas. More information at www.NorrisLeal.com.
Organization:

North Alamo Water Supply Corporation

Contact:Steven P Sanchez
Title:General Manager
Address:420 S. Doolittle Road
Edinburg, TX 78542, USA
Phone:956-383-1618
Email:nawsc_sps@hotmail.com
Website:www.nawsc.com
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Port of Corpus Christi Authority

Contact:Sarah Garza
Title:Director of Environmental Planning & Compliance
Address:222 Power Street
Corpus Christi, TX 78403, USA
Phone:361-882-5633
Email:sarah@pocca.com
Description:The Port of Corpus Christi has been in operation since 1926 and has since become the 3rd largest port in the United States, based on total revenue tonnage, and the 2nd largest exporter of crude oil. The Port boasts a 47-foot-deep channel, three Class I railroads - BNSF, KCS and UP - and a location adjacent to connecting Texas highways, Interstate 37 and Highway 181. With all these assets at our disposal, our mission is and always will be to leverage commerce to drive prosperity for Corpus Christi and the coastal bend.
Organization:

R W Harden & Associates, Inc.

Contact:Kevin Spencer, PG
Title:President
Address:9009 Mountain Ridge Drive, Suite 100
Austin, TX 78759, USA
Phone:512-345-2379
Email:kevin.spencer@rwharden.com
Website:rwharden.com
Organization:

Reticle, Inc.

Contact:Dale M Nesbitt
Title:CEO
Address:221 Main Street
Los Altos, CA 94023, USA
Phone:650-218-3069
Email:dale.nesbitt@arrowheadeconomics.com
Description:Reticle provides desalination and brine remediation equipment.
Organization:

TechPM

Contact:Fernando Rico, Jr, PE
Title:Consultant
Address:508 Castile
El Paso, TX 79912, USA
Phone:915-491-8642
Email:frico002@elp.rr.com
Organization:

Texas A&M University

Contact:Debjyoti Banerjee, PhD
Title:Professor, Fellow, Co-Founder Led Unv. Startup Co.
Address:MS 3123 TAMU, Mike Walker '66 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (MEEN)
College Station, TX 77843-3123, USA
Phone:979-845-4500
Email:dbanerjee@tamu.edu
Website:https://www.linkedin.com/in/debjyoti-banerjee-7769723/
Description:Research and product development experience in multi-disciplinary environments. Led professional teams for commercializing advanced technology platforms involving MEMS, microfluidics, nano-manufacturing platforms (DPN), biotechnology and thermal engineering. Extensive experience in product optimization and product development using commercial computational tools (CFD, FEM, BEM solvers), Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning and Neural Networks (AI/ML, ANN). Specialties: Thermal engineering, Thermo-Fluidics, Boiling/Condensation and Multi-Phase Flows, Enhanced Cooling on Nano-Structured Surfaces, Compact Heat Exchangers, Flow Separation Control, Fluid-Structure interactions, MEMS, microfluidics, microfabrication, nanofabrication, nanotechnology, Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN), Carbon Nanotubes (CNT), Step and Flash Imprint Lithography (SFIL), boiling on nano-structures, Finite Element Method (FEM), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Molecular Dynamics (MD), AI/ML (ANN).
Organization:

Texas Desalination Association

Contact:Kyle Frazier
Title:Executive Director
Phone:512-322-0303
Email:jkf1@fastmail.com
Website:www.texasdesal.com
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The University of Texas at El Paso

Contact:W. Shane Walker, PhD
Title:Associate Professor
Address:500 W. University Ave.
El Paso, TX 79968, USA
Phone:915-747-8729
Email:wswalker2@utep.edu
Organization:

Toray Membrane USA

Contact:Daniel Muff
Title:Regional Sales Manager
Address:13435 Danielson St.
Poway, CA 92064, USA
Phone:512-988-1528
Email:dan.muff.n8@mail.toray
Website:www.water.toray
Description:Toray's product portfolio consists of state-of-the-art cross-linked polyamide spiral-wound reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membrane elements (Toray RO and CSM™), pressurized and submerged PVDF hollow-fiber ultrafiltration membrane modules (Toray UF), flat-sheet membrane bioreactor modules (Toray MBR), and spiral-wound RO, NF, UF, and MF membrane elements in sanitary design for dairy and hygienic purified water applications. Our operations for the Americas are based out of San Diego, California, and include manufacturing of spiral-wound Toray RO and CSM™ membrane elements and full customer and technical support. Contact us for additional details. www.water.toray
Organization:

Water Desalination Report

Contact:Tom Pankratz
Title:Editor
Address:P.O. Box 75064
Houston, TX 77234, USA
Phone:281-857-6571
Email:tp@globalwaterintel.com
Description:Water Desalination Report (WDR) is a weekly publication of Global Water Intelligence, which has been following the global desalination and membrane market industry since 1965. For more information, visit www.desalination.com.

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