General Electric (GE), through its GE Water and Process Technologies (GE Water) division, and Dow Water Solutions, the water treatment division of The Dow Chemical Co., are among the companies involved in projects aimed at supplying Beijing with an adequate and safe water supply during the 2008 Olympic Games, according to an August 11 press release from GE and an August 6 press release from Dow Technology.

GE Water is providing water treatment technologies to the National Stadium (“Bird’s Nest”) and reverse osmosis membrane technologies for the Tangshan Nanpu Waste Water Reclamation Project, which will produce more than 93,000 tons of treated water each day. GE water filtration technologies also are in place at the Qinghe Waste Water Recycling Project, where the water will be recycled for landscaping during the Olympic Games.

GE Water donated two advanced water treatment systems to provide clean drinking water for more than 60,000 Chinese. Working with the Ministry of Water Resources in China, GE also will supply a mobile treatment plant to bring clean water to areas that lie out of reach of the nation’s centralized municipal water infrastructure, according to the GE press release.

Dow Water Solutions is employing the use of 5,000 FILMTEC 8-inch diameter reverse osmosis (RO) membrane elements to treat water at a treatment plant, the Beijing International Airport and the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area. This project will help the city reach the goal of reusing 50 percent of its water, according to the Dow press release.