SETAᴾᴴᵀ participates in the design and manufacturing of a skid desalination plant for the second reverse osmosis step of the Barka V desalination plant (Oman)

The joint venture formed by Global Omnium and Tedagua begins operating the desalination plant in Mutxamel (Alicante) after being awarded the contract by Acuamed for two years, extendable to four years

NX Filtration and Nijhuis Saur Industries team up to tackle water shortage

Acciona is awarded the construction, management and maintenance of the desalination plant in Casablanca (Morocco), the largest in Africa, with a production capacity of 548,000 m3/day

DuPont’s FilmTec™ Fortilife™ NF1000 high-productivity nanofiltration membranes, which enable reuse with lower energy consumption, are now marketed worldwide

The Alkimos desalination plant in Perth, Australia, has received environmental approval from state and federal regulators, a step closer to construction

The president of the Mancomunidad de los Canales del Taibilla, Francisca Baraza, has assured that 10 million euros will be allocated to desalination plants 1 and 2 in Alicante to improve their efficiency and extend their area of influence

Chile’s Chamber of Deputies unanimously approves the bill that will allow the Ministry of Public Works to build and concession desalination plants for drinking water, sanitation and irrigation purposes

Abaqua puts out to public tender the project to increase the production capacity of the Santa Eulària desalination plant (Ibiza)

The EU will invest almost €200 million in grants and loans in a project to build a desalination plant in Amman, Jordan

Abaqua begins the procedures to put out to tender a project to rectify filtration problems detected in the desalination plant in Ciutadella (Menorca), in addition to other interventions for the improvement and modernisation of the plant

Namibia Water Corporation announces plans to build a large-capacity desalination plant next to a power plant on the country’s central coast

Investment in water desalination in Spain using renewable energies such as photovoltaics is key to reducing the pressure on “overexploited” aquifers

ALADYR held its Biennial Congress in Santiago de Chile, which this year focused on the importance of desalination and water reuse for agriculture

This week the First Congress on “Decarbonisation and Sustainability” was held in Madrid, organised by ANESE

A new roadmap released by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality paves the way for accelerated adoption of direct potable reuse in Phoenix

“Water does not fall from the sky” is the slogan of the Generalitat de Catalunya to raise awareness of the current extremely serious drought situation and to emphasise both the lack of rainfall and the major source of resources: desalination and reuse

The drought in Portugal’s Algarve region has led its political leaders to advocate studies for the construction of a second desalination plant and the transfer of water from the Alqueva dam

Spain has hosted the meeting of the European technical group on water reuse

The Águilas desalination plant (Murcia) is once again supplying water to irrigators in the Guadalentín region after a breakdown

41% of the country is in a situation of emergency (14.7%) or alert/exceptionality (26.3%) due to water scarcity, especially Catalonia, northern half of Aragon, central Castilla y León, southern Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha and almost all of Andalusia

The drought is worsening in Catalonia and in the next few days it will enter an emergency phase, which will mean more restrictions on water consumption in municipalities in the internal basins

Malaga’s coastline would run out of drinking water in March if there were no more rain

Marbella bans street sweeping and the filling of private swimming pools due to drought

The Costa del Sol and the Junta plan to extend the use of reclaimed water for irrigation and irrigation of parks

Nearly 60% of Mexico suffers from moderate to exceptional drought

Microplastics contaminate all marine species at river mouths

Spain is at the forefront of Europe in the use of green hydrogen

Several of our associates among the 9 companies and consortia that will be able to bid to develop, finance and operate two 600,000 m3/day desalination plants of the IWP Jubail 4 and 6

Chile’s president announces the construction of at least one desalination plant in the Coquimbo region and the approval of a law to facilitate the construction of desalination plants by the Ministry of Public Works

Morocco’s Minister of Water and Equipment has announced that a tender for the construction of a new seawater desalination plant in Nador will be launched by the end of the year

MITECO plans to put out the tender for the extension of the Torrevieja, Águilas and Valdelentisco desalination plants after signing the new desalinated water agreements with irrigators

Awarded 410,000 euro contract for the drafting of the photovoltaic plant project for the Alicante desalination plant

Authorities in the northeastern Australian state of Queensland are considering the construction of a large desalination plant to secure their water supply

The SWPC has announced the preferred and reserve bidder for the Al-Haer ISTP project, a wastewater treatment plant with a treatment capacity of 200,000 m3/day and a water reuse system

The drought in Tenerife is forcing the recovery of the desalination plant at El Chorrillo, which is currently in disuse

Desalinated water is the largest resource in the water resources mix of the Mancomunidad de los Canales del Taibilla (supplying 80 municipalities in Murcia, Alicante and Albacete). In the last year its production has increased by 1.54%, to 85.49 hm3

Acosol plans to create a water ‘motorway’ and double the capacity of the Marbella desalination plant

From 7th to 9th November, a new edition of Aquatech will be held in Amsterdam, one of the most important water events, in which many of our partners will participate

In 2025 the public production of desalinated water in Tenerife will be over 110,000 cubic metres per day

Compromiso Minero, a network that brings together different organisations from the Chilean mining ecosystem, advocates that by 2025, 90% of the water used by this industry will come from the sea (salted or desalinated) or will be reused

Offshore desalination may be the opportunity to overcome the stagnation of the use of this technology in California, given the environmental opposition of regulators to the construction of plants

The First National Green Hydrogen Congress, organised by the Huelva Business Federation, will be held in Huelva in February 2024 and AEDyR members will benefit from discounts

Two of the three winners of the IDA Seville 2023 Summit Awards are Spanish companies

A new MIT study reveals that light can directly cause water to evaporate without the need for heat. This paradigm shift opens new doors to understanding natural phenomena and driving innovation in water desalination

By 2030, 20 desalination plants will be operational in Morocco. A total of seven plants are currently under construction, which will be increased to nine in the near future, and eleven desalination plants are operational

Mexico has very few desalination plants in operation despite the drought and shortages affecting several states

A study addresses the relationship between desalination in Fuerteventura and Lanzarote and population growth

Technology for lithium brine concentration and water purification developed

The state of Balearic waters is getting worse every year: Chemical assessment analyses show an increase in petrochemical and plastic pollution due to heavy maritime traffic

Eight out of ten Andalusians show a high degree of “concern” about the drought

In the Balearic Islands 1,353 swimming pools have been built so far this year

The Catalan Water Agency does not rule out bringing water in boats to tackle the drought

The Mancomunidad de los Canales del Taibilla will invest almost 10 million euros in the operation, maintenance and conservation of its desalination plants in Alicante

A CSIC study confirms that the summer of 2022 was the hottest summer in Spain in the last 700 years and that 2022 was also the driest year in the north-east of the country

Irrigators from three communities ask for more reclaimed water from the wastewater treatment plants in Orihuela (Alicante)

The second edition of the Desalytics Water Week virtual event will dedicate a full session to desalination and water reuse and will be held from 5th to 7th December

The Director General for Water at MITECO, Teodoro Estrela, explained that the promotion of non-conventional resources, such as reuse and desalination, is positioned as a fundamental element in guaranteeing supply

Desalinated water now reaches all homes in Almeria with the start-up of the connection between the La Pipa reservoirs (where the desalinated water arrives) and the San Cristobal and Santa Isabel reservoirs

The Andalusian regional government foresees water restrictions in the large Andalusian cities if it does not rain in a year, except in Almeria, which has a guaranteed supply thanks to its desalination plants

Norwegian company Waterise has just completed a successful demonstration of a pilot subsea desalination plant

The IDA is holding the Water and Climate Change Summit in Seville from 15 to 18 October

Spain hosted the fourth meeting of the European Commission’s technical group on water scarcity and drought

The Government will invest 11,839 million euros to promote desalination and water reuse, as well as to improve pipelines and regulation infrastructures due to the drought

ACUAES tenders the works for the Silvouta WWTP in Santiago de Compostela, with a budget of 53.9 million euros

The Cabildo of El Hierro will acquire 3 new desalination plants to tackle the water shortage on the island

The bidding process for the Al Shuqaiq 4 Independent Water Power Plant (IWP) project in Saudi Arabia is expected to start in the first quarter of 2024

Work on the expansion of the Blanes desalination plant (Girona) could begin in 2026 and the plant would be fully operational by 2030

6 consortia, including one of our partners, are competing for solar energy and water desalination projects on Egypt’s northern coast

Two AEDyR associates among the list of nine pre-qualified bidders for the development of the desalination plant for the Jubail 4 and 6 independent water project in Saudi Arabia

The project to build Brazil’s largest desalination plant for human consumption is expected to be completed in early 2024 and be operational in 2026

New desalination plant project approved in Alkimos, Perth (Australia)

The Mancomunidad del Sureste (Gran Canaria) requests the expansion of its desalination plant to increase its production capacity by 15%

The Cabildo of Tenerife will invest 18 million euros to provide the west of the island with regenerated irrigation water

The government of the state of Baja California (Mexico) has taken up the project to build a desalination plant in Playas de Rosarito, but now, it will be financed with federal and state public resources

Iraq deploys mega project to build a seawater desalination plant in Basra province

The Melilla desalination plant is expected to have a capacity of 32,000 m3/day in November and in December it will begin to be managed by the Autonomous City

The MITECO, through the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE), will offer technical feasibility studies on possible projects for the use of biogas for thermal and/or electrical self-consumption

A startup from San Sebastian develops a technology to improve the efficiency of reverse osmosis membrane cleaning through sensors placed in the supply pipes

ULPGC researchers design an intelligent management system to store and increase the energy use of a desalination plant powered by renewable energies

The Spanish Federation of Food and Drink Industries calls for the promotion of the use of non-conventional water resources

Lanzarote will install two portable desalination plants of 5,000 cubic metres per day to stop the supply problems on the island and in La Graciosa

Tenerife is committed to deploying more portable desalination plants in different parts of the island to combat drought

The Government speeds up the improvement and expansion work on the Oliva (Valencia) treatment plant, which will reuse 4.5 hm3 of water for irrigation

The new desalination plant planned for the Escombreras Valley (Murcia) will discharge the brine into the pipeline of the Escombreras plant

A photovoltaic plant for self-consumption will be installed at the El Atabal desalination plant (Malaga), which will enable a 17.5% saving in electricity consumption

Manilva Town Council (Malaga) is studying the possibility of building a desalination plant with its own funding and funding from other administrations

Irrigators from the Costa Granadina region will ask for more infrastructures: more connections to new irrigation ponds and even a desalination plant similar to the one in Axarquia

The United Kingdom Water Industry Research is seeking expressions of interest from experts capable of undertaking specific research projects addressing key issues in the water sector

Protocol approved for the conversion of the Los Pilones water treatment plant into a desalination plant to improve water quality in the Guadalhorce, Costa del Sol and Axarquia regions (Malaga)

Morocco unexpectedly cancels Tangier desalination plant contract, Moroccan government plans to build a water highway instead

China significantly increased the use of non-conventional water resources to ensure water security by 2022

A new report by Bluefield Research forecasts that spending on municipal water reuse in Europe will grow from 140 million euros in 2023 to approximately 360 million euros in 2030

Tenders are invited for the refurbishment of the façades of the Alicante II desalination plant

Estepona (Malaga) has adopted a series of measures to reduce the demand on the urban drinking water supply: reducing the watering of green areas to 3 days a week, or washing down the streets with non-drinking water

The California Court of Appeal rules in favour of the County of Monterey County of Monterey to authorise permits for the construction of California American Water’s new desalination plant

MEPs on the Environment Committee have adopted their position on new rules for urban waste water collection, treatment and discharge, stressing the importance of increasing water reuse

From 30 September to 4 October, a new edition of WEFTEC, one of the most important international events in the water sector, is being held in Chicago

The next edition of the Membrane & Filtration Expo focusing on advances in these technologies for industrial and utility applications takes place in November in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

The Life Desirows project is now in its testing phase. whose objective is to eliminate nitrates from the groundwater of Campo de Cartagena, as well as to extract salts to obtain water for irrigation and fertiliser by crystallising the salts

Engineers from MIT and China aim to turn seawater into drinking water with a totally passive device inspired by the ocean and powered by natural sunlight

Barcelona’s market garden saves harvest thanks to wells and reclaimed water

Construction begins on a new 50,000 m3/day desalination plant in the Mangystau region (Kazakhstan)

CEAZA is developing the study “Oceanographic and Biological Foundations for the Planning and Design of Desalination Plants in Central-Northern Chile”, which provides scientific knowledge on the construction and operation of desalination plants in Chile

Cordoba is committed to increasing the use of reclaimed water

Indirect potable reuse in Barcelona: this article explains the different stages of this process, the contribution of reclaimed water to the Llobregat river eight kilometres upstream of the Sant Joan Despí drinking water treatment plant

The Segura can guarantee water for irrigation and industry until the end of the month and human supply “in principle should not be affected, not even in the coming months of the new hydrological year”

Consumption of desalinated water in the municipalities of Ibiza increases

Special Commemorative Award of the United Nations International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development for a student of the University of Almeria for his research on water reuse for irrigation