The Chilean Minister of Public Works, Juan Carlos García, and the Minister for Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, agree to strengthen technical and institutional cooperation in the field of water resources

ALADYR holds in Alicante an ‘Effective desalination training’ in collaboration with AEDyR with the participation of several members of our Board of Directors

IDA is holding its World Congress in Sydney (Australia) from 8-13 October and has now published the final programme for the event

60% of the water supplied in summer in Xàbia (Alicante) comes from the desalination plant

Algeria restricts new tenders for sanitation and water treatment, including water desalination, to domestic firms

Iran’s National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company plans to build 20 desalination plants

South Korea’s Doosan Enerbility has been awarded the EPC contract for the Shuaibah 3 independent water project in Saudi Arabia

TotalEnergies and Veolia have agreed to build a solar photovoltaic power plant for a water desalination plant in Sur (Oman)

Tenerife is committed to desalination plants to combat drought: it plans to extend the Fonsalía and Granadilla plants and will build another in Güímar

Drought forces Spain to invest more than 300 million in desalination plants

Peru’s Ministry of Housing announces National Desalination Plan to promote the construction of desalination plants in the regions of Piura, Lambayeque, Arequipa and Moquegua

Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company (NWC) has announced its intention to launch the largest package of water distribution projects in the country’s history, putting 1,429 projects out to tender, worth USD 29 billion

The Insular Water Consortium is studying the possibility of installing a portable desalination plant in La Graciosa due to the constant breakdowns in the underwater supply network

Oropesa del Mar Town Council (Castellón) publishes the tender for the works for the network so that the entire municipality can be supplied with water from the Cabanes desalination plant

The new Water Strategy 2022-2025 for Sydney, Australia, highlights the urgent need to invest in non-conventional water sources, such as desalination and large-scale water reuse

The Government approves a new amendment to the ACUAES Direct Management Agreement that includes the incorporation of new water projects with an investment of 1,586 million euros in 23 new water projects

ITC receives proposals from 5 countries to test disruptive brine recovery technology at the Pozo Izquierdo experimental site

A new study shows that membrane systems integrated into WWTPs prevent the re-entry of most microplastics into the environment and allow water reuse

The European Commission has published a draft proposal to restrict intentionally added microplastics in cosmetics, cleaning products, and pesticides

The preliminary project to interconnect the desalination plants in the Segura basin is estimated at 285 million euros

Farmers in Torrox (Malaga) start irrigating with reclaimed water from the two wastewater treatment plants

The Canary Islands Government invests 5M€ in the remodelling of the Valle Gran Rey (La Gomera) wastewater treatment plant, works that will improve and expand capacity, as well as produce regenerated water

Scientists in Germany have investigated the potential use of seawater batteries for renewable energy storage, which could have applications in water desalination

ACWA Power has signed an industrial development agreement to integrate hydraulic injection desalination (HID) at scale, a technology that previous studies have shown has the potential to break the 2.0 kWh/m3 energy consumption barrier

Coastal development permit application for the Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project (California) to increase water supply through desalination, storage and aquifer recovery

The European Commission announces the creation of a European Hydrogen Bank and an investment of 3 billion euros

North Shuaiba desalination plant chosen as pilot privatisation project in Kuwait