Funded by Proposition 1, a $7.545 billion bond approved by voters in 2014, the Water Desalination Grant Program supports the construction and design of pilot projects that desalinate naturally occurring brackish and ocean water for drinking water supply.
One consortium has been prequalified for each of the categories of up to 400,000 m3/day and 200,000 m3/day.
The program aims to launch multiple projects with a total capacity of 8.85 million m3/day by 2050, with the first phase planned to generate 3.35 million m3/day by 2025.
Umm Al Quwain’s new water desalination plant is now fully operational and producing 150 million gallons per day, having costed Dh2.2 billion.
Al Ali also highlighted the project’s aim to reduce energy consumption, with the facility covering an estimated area of 250,000 square meters and serving all areas under UWEC’s supervision.
Construction is progressing on Penneshaw’s new seawater desalination plant, with work now underway to install the next 20km of a large underground pipeline on Kangaroo Island.
This section of water main forms part of a total 50km being laid, which will deliver safe, clean water to new and existing SA Water customers from the new desalination facility once operational from mid-2024.
SA Water Senior Manager of Capital Delivery, Peter Seltsikas, said installation of this pipeline stage is expected to be complete in 2023, with work progressively being undertaken from […]
Haaland’s office said the Alamogordo facility would use the money to build an advanced water treatment facility and associated infrastructure in response to PFAS (polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances) contamination that was discovered a few years ago. This, her office said, would restore access to the two contaminated brackish wells on the site and allow them to be used again and reduce the operational load on the other two wells.
The facility plans to use the allocated funding for an advanced water treatment facility to remove PFAS substances that were discovered at an evaporation pond in 2018 and two wells at the facility in 2019. The plan is to restore access to the two wells which would help lighten the load on the other two wells. Funding for the project comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
The controversial $1.1 billion Disi Water Conveyance Project, predominantly financed by the US and European governments, became operational in 2014 and carries 100 million cubic metres of water per year to Amman and other cities from Disi, a non-replenishable aquifer on the border with Saudi Arabia.
The project entails construction of a desalination plant in the locality of Gargour, located 20 km from the city of Sfax. The plant will have a capacity of 100,000 m³ per day. The water treated in the plant will be stored in a reservoir.
Egypt’s water desalination programme entails the launch of several projects covering a total planned capacity of 8.85 million m3/day by 2050 of which 3.35 million m3/day is planned by 2025 as the (“First Phase”). The programme aims at attracting foreign and local strategic investors with the key objectives of developing, constructing & operating the plants while powering them using renewable energy sources and aiming to transfer technology and localize manufacturing of key desalination components.
To date, DWR has awarded over $82 million in Proposal 1 desalination grants ranging from over $100,000 to $10 million to support 20 projects. Three projects are currently under construction, including the Antioch Brackish Water Desalination Project, the City of Camarillo’s North Pleasant Valley Desalination Project, and the brackish desalter in the city of Santa Monica. Two of the projects will contribute to the Governor’s goal of increasing brackish groundwater desalination production by 28,000 acre-feet per year by 2030.