Brazil

Under the 30-year PPP contract Águas de Fortaleza is due to invest 3.1bn reais (US$632mn) to build, operate and maintain the 1,000l/s plant that will supply potable water to Cagece’s Mucuripe and Praça da Imprensa reservoirs. 

Of the total, 526mn reais will be invested in construction and installing pipes, and work is expected to be concluded in the first months of 2026. The plant is designed to benefit 720,000 people. 

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The planned investment is about 50 million reais ($13.32 million) and the project should start operating in two years, he said.

In an initial module, the plant will be capable of desalinating 500 cubic meters (132,100 gallons)of sea water per hour.

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