Good reason for EESO to partner with GE then... I can see it now DOW/GE/EESO partnering for a cleaner water supply... Turning Sea Water into Drinking Water... That's the modern day equivilant of Water to Wine... Do your DD and check into the potential this DOW relationship will bring us with other companies on this Clean Water Kick...
When Dow formed the water solutions unit, Chief Executive Officer Andrew N. Liveris said the company was backing a pledge, part of Dow's sustainability goals, to provide higher quality water for industrial applications and for drinking. Another global firm with a similar pledge is General Electric. Increasing clean water supplies is part of GE's pledge to exercise what it has dubbed "ecomagination," which it defines as a dedication to bringing to market technologies that lower harmful emissions, promote energy efficiency, and reduce the use of fossil fuels.
In June 2006, GE purchased Zenon Environmental, a Canadian manufacturer of hollow-fiber ultrafiltration membranes, for $689 million. At the time, David Calhoun, a GE vice chairman, pointed out that "water quality, water scarcity, and infrastructure challenges are growing around the globe." The acquisition of Zenon enhanced GE's ability to provide clean industrial, agricultural, and potable water.
The Zenon deal capped a string of purchases GE made to beef up its water treatment capabilities. The firm's spending binge took off in 2002 when it acquired BetzDearborn, a company specializing in water treatment chemicals, for $1.8 billion. A year later, GE purchased Osmonics, a maker of water treatment machines and equipment, for $240 million, and in 2005, it bought Ionics, a specialist in reverse-osmosis water desalination membranes, for $1.1 billion.
GE's move into water treatment made it a supplier not only of membrane and chemistry technology but also of original equipment and systems to treat water. Another firm, Siemens, which claims to have installed more than one-third of all low-pressure membrane water treatment systems globally, got into the membrane business when it purchased the water services firm U.S. Filter in 2004 for $993 million. That acquisition included Memcor Products, an Australian maker of hollow-fiber micro- and ultrafiltration membranes.
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