The Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY) is set to establish a desalination plant in Aden, the interim capital, with a capacity of 10,000 cubic meters.
ENGIE recently won a tender to develop and operate the Mirfa 2 Project, valued at $800 million and with a daily water production capacity of 20 million gallons.
Equivalent to 831,935 cubic meters per day, this achievement establishes Taweelah RO as the largest operational RO facility worldwide.
Once fully operational, Taweelah RO will supply 200 MIGD (909,200 cubic meters per day) of potable water.
The contract is only for water supply for 24 months. After that, the equipment which is owned by the contractor, will be removed and the area rehabilitated.
âThis is going to be a temporary solution, said Wynand Wessels, project manager for Proxa South Africa.
âPhase one being an initial supply of 2ml (megalitres) a day â two million litres, and phase two, being a final supply of the seven million litres â the seven ML per day into the potable reticulation.â
Finance ministry officials have revealed that a foreign company specialising in solar-powered desalination systems is already working on a project to install approximately 1,500 units of such plants in the southern part of Bangladesh. Through this project, around 50,000 coastal communities will gain access to safe drinking water.
It is Ewecâs fourth operational desalination plant with RO capacity, joining Mirfa 1, and the Fujairah F1 and Fujairah F2 hybrid water desalination and power plants.Â
Ewec has also commissioned the development of four additional low-carbon intensive water production facilities, including Mirfa 2 RO, Shuweihat 4 RO, and two standalone RO water desalination plants as part of the Abu Dhabi Islands RO Independent Water Project.
Discussions centered around project-related data and studies, which aim to generate 10,000 cubic meters of water per day to meet the needs of the population.
For this reason, Shuqaiq 3 SWRO was awarded a prize in the Desalination Plant of the Year category. Construction work on the plant was completed in January 2023 in record time despite COVID-19 problems. It is one of the biggest seawater desalination plants using reverse osmosis technology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, capable of supplying 2 million people in the Asir and Jizan areas. The plant, which is already producing water at full capacity, produces 450,000 cubic metres of potable water per day, making it a milestone in sustainable and innovative desalination.
The facility is one of the five largest desalination plants in Israel, with a production capacity of 336,000 m3/day, accounting for nearly one sixth of Israelâs total 600 million m3/year volume of produced desalinated water. Shapir and GES will add a 150 MW power plant and operate the facility as an independent power producer to supply the power needed for plant operations.
Spanish companies such as Abengoa and Ayesa have constructed the worldâs largest reverse osmosis desalination plant in Saudi Arabia, operational since last December, serving the water needs of approximately 3,000,000 people.