Under the 30-year PPP contract Ăguas 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 Cageceâs Mucuripe and Praça da Imprensa reservoirs.Â
JSE-listed Growthpoint Properties and the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), equal joint owners of the Victoria & Alfred (V&A) Waterfront in Cape Town, will be commissioning a R184 million desalination plant in the precinct in March and April next year.
JSE-listed Growthpoint Properties and the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), equal joint owners of the Victoria & Alfred (V&A) Waterfront in Cape Town, will be commissioning a R184 million desalination plant in the precinct in March and April next year.
At full capacity, it will enable the Waterfront to go off the water grid.
David Green, the chief executive of the V&A Waterfront, confirmed the desalination plant is scalable and could provide between 3.5 million and five million litres of water per day.
According to Orano Miningâs managing director Tommie Gouws, EDP has the capacity to produce 20 million cubic metres of water per year, with the existing infra- structure allowing for expansion up to 25 million cubic metres and the potential to further expand to 45 million cubic metres.