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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

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