MONTHLY NEWS

EWEC (Emirates Water and Electricity Company) receives 4 proposals for the Saadiyat Island desalination plant construction project, 3 of which are from our partners

Abaqua will allocate 9.7 million to improve the efficiency of four desalination plants in the Balearic Islands (Alcúdia, Andratx, Ciutadella and Santa Eulària) with the installation of isobaric equipment

The Bahrain Electricity and Water Authority has received five bids for the tender of the new Hawar desalination plant

The Govern calls for tenders for the design of Ibiza’s fourth desalination plant

The Government will build a new desalination plant in Alt Empordà (Girona) and will speed up the two already planned: the enlargement of the Tordera plant and the construction of the Foix plant (Barcelona)

The Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura is preparing the tender specifications for the drafting of a project to build the second desalination plant in the Vega Baja (Alicante)

The Balearic Water and Environmental Quality Agency has published the tender for the operation, maintenance, conservation and operation of the Andratx and Alcudia seawater desalination plants in Mallorca

The International Desalination and Reuse Association (IDRA) has postponed the dates for nominations for the different categories of the awards to be presented at its World Congress in Abu Dhabi

Egypt will put out to tender this year two of the four desalination plants planned through public-private partnerships: one in Dabaa, with a capacity of 40,000 m³/day, and another in El Hamam, with a capacity of 190,000 m³/day

Bombay (India) desalination plant tender cancelled as only one bid was received

Lack of water in Spain threatens forests as much as or more than fires in the north of the country

Many Greek islands are using desalination plants to alleviate water shortages

The Polish government plans to build three new desalination plants on the banks of the Odra River, as well as upgrading the existing plant, given the high levels of salinisation of the river’s water

Industrial and municipal water treatment and reuse is one of the themes of the 9th Joint Call for Proposals CTI 2024 on climate change adaptation and local resilience

The Australian government of New South Wales has given the go-ahead for the construction of a seawater desalination plant in Belmont

The Antigua desalination plant (Fuerteventura) is to upgrade equipment to increase the plant’s production capacity and energy efficiency

Josep Lluís Armenter will be the new director of the Catalan Water Agency

Researchers study the integration of a desalination plant into the Chira-Soria hydroelectric power station

Ibiza’s three desalination plants will begin this month to dispense water to private suppliers not connected to the municipal networks

Efficient technology developed to extract magnesium from seawater and desalination plant concentrate or brine economically and with less environmental impact

The first phase of the expansion of the desalination plant in Marbella (Malaga) has been completed, which has increased its production from 6 to 12 Hm3 and will triple its initial production to 20 Hm3 once the second phase has been completed

The project for the remodelling of the Ceuta marina contemplates the inclusion of a desalination plant

Technology centres in the Canary Islands and Almeria join forces to study the cultivation of microalgae with brine or concentrate from desalination plants

Authorities in Bodrum, one of Turkey’s top tourist destinations, are considering water desalination as a solution to water shortages

SEIASA will invest 11.2 million in modernising irrigation in Mallorca and Formentera, improving the quality of water reused for irrigation and installing remote control systems to digitalise irrigation management

This September, the Guadalquivir River Basin Authority began work on the extension of the Melilla desalination plant

The chip industry and water reuse: some companies aim to reuse 100% of water by 2030

The average water consumption of Spanish households in 2022 was 128 litres inhab/day in 2022 according to INE data. If all the desalinated water produced in Spain were used to supply water, it could supply more than 39 million inhabitants

The Seville Provincial Council has put out to tender the first commercial purification plant based on microalgae purification technology that allows the reuse of water for irrigation

The Laguna Madre Water District will build a seawater desalination plant in Port Isabel (Texas) with a production capacity of more than 35,000m3/day

International experts advocate the use of water desalination to produce green hydrogen directly from seawater with conventional electrolysers

Portable desalination plants alleviate drought in Tenerife’s southern crops

Desalinated water for urban use quadruples in two years in the Valencia region

Huge underground reservoir discovered on Mars

A new study estimates that more than half of the world’s population does not have access to safe drinking water: 4.4 billion people are affected, double the UN figure of 2 billion

A new study shows that groundwater levels in south-eastern Europe are not declining everywhere, as previously thought, but mainly in semi-arid regions with intensive agriculture and frequent droughts

Agronomists call for a commitment to water reuse on Alicante’s coastline

The hydrogen generation plant in Pinto (Madrid), which will be the first green hydrogen plant in Spain to use reclaimed water, will be operational from next summer

Benidorm doubles water consumption in summer due to the influx of tourists to 45,000 m3/day

15.6 million authorised for the upstream supply of desalinated water in the Poniente Almeriense region of Almeria

Irrigators from Níjar (Almería) will begin the campaign with water from the Mar de Alborán desalination plant

Desalination and water reuse are the main water solutions being considered by the Mexican states of Baja California and Nuevo León to cope with recurrent droughts and water stress

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