MEDRC and the Palestinian Water Authority Establish a Center of Excellence for Desalination and Water Reuse Technologies......Environmental Impact of desalination, send us your thoughts at info@medrc.org.........The NATO Science for Peace Program and the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) awarded grants to researchers at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and Hashemite University of Jordan to continue working on a novel desalination method, for more info contact research@medrc.org.....MEDRC awards first research project of MEDRC-PWA Center of Excellence to Professor Dr. Marwan Haddad of An Najah National University, entitled: Solar Desalination of Brackish Water by RO Membranes Powered by Photovoltaic Cells in West Bank, Palestine