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The deal with Aguas Pacifico will allow the miner to bring ocean water to Los Bronces’ recirculation systems, with the goal of not drawing fresh water from the area where the mine is located.

In this first phase, the company will use 500 litres per second of desalinated water to cover 45% of its operations. In the second phase, Anglo plans to use treated wastewater in exchange for supplying desalinated water for human consumption.

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In February, the National Gas Company (NGC) transferred the assets of BWRP to the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA).

But Gonzales says the utility still has to decide whether it’s feasible to finish.

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In December, the company received environmental approval for a US$115mn project to increase the capacity of its plant (in photo) in Antofagasta city to over 1,600l/s, and expects to have the expansion ready by late 2023 or early 2024, the firm’s operations manager Cristián Jiménez told BNamericas at the Desalination Latin America congress held by Vostock Capital.

He said the expansion will be Aguas Antofagasta’s largest project for the next three years.

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And that is making some short-term investors to await these results to see which road to take,” Carlos Foxley, chairman of Chilean desalination association Acades, told BNamericas. He said two regulatory pushes are happening in parallel.

One in the constitutional convention, which drafts a new constitution, is focused on overall water management, while the second push comes from the senate and concerns a desalination bill submitted by the previous administration.

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