MONTHLY NEWS

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

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