The BMC supplies 3,900 million litres of water daily (MLD) to the city. However, the city’s reliance on its seven lakes for potable water causes anxiety every year during the monsoon. So, to augment water supply, the BMC revived the ambitious project of a desalination plant.
The desalination unit in Basra received an allocation of IQD400 billion ($305 million) while about IQD107 billion ($82 million) was initially earmarked for the petrochemical plant, with a cost of $8.5 billion and an output capacity of 1.8 million tonnes per year.
The project was a collaboration between Etihad Water and Electricity, Mubadala, and Saudi Arabia’s Utilities developer, ACWA Power.
The first phase, initiated during the second half of 2021, concluded with the station operating experimentally at a daily production capacity of 50 million gallons.
Last month, the hotels pooled resources together and bought a mobile desalination plant worth 1.5 million euros, however, they still needed official permission by the authorities in order to operate it.
The desalination plant would extract water from under the beach rather than from the sea. It has a capacity of 50 cubic metres per hour and could be ready to be operational in May.
ACCIONA was awarded in 2004 with a 20-year contract to redesign, build and operate the Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination Facility (TBWSWDF). With this recent 5-year extension, ACCIONA and its partner U.S. Water will operate this flagship in desalination until 2029.
Acwa Power, a leading Saudi developer of power and desalination projects, has announced that the project company for Taweelah RO plant in Abu Dhabi has obtained the commercial operation certificate for the final phase of the facility from Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC).
n the early days, Águas do Algarve talked about the project costing “around €50 million”. That figure is now €90 million – the funding of which is to be covered by recovery and resilience funding (RRP) from Brussels.
The plan envisages an initial capacity for conversion of seawater into drinking/irrigation water of 16 cubic hectometres (meaning 16 million cubic metres).
In a statement, Águas do Algarve said the project – due for completion by the end of 2026 – will be prepared to increase capacity to 24 cubic hectometres per year.
With a capacity to produce 150 million gallons of desalinated water daily, the facility ranks among the globe’s largest seawater desalination plants.
The “NAQA’A” desalination plant is located in the emirate of Umm Al Quwain and operates according to the independent water producer (IWP) model.
Report informs, citing the Ministry of Economy, that the first stage of the tender announced on February 8 of this year with the aim of attracting potential investors for the plant construction project has ended
The BMC supplies 3,900 million litres of water daily (MLD) to the city. However, the city’s reliance on its seven lakes for potable water causes anxiety every year during the monsoon. So, to augment water supply, the BMC revived the ambitious project of a desalination plant.