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The European Council has approved the new Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive, which extends the scope to smaller agglomerations and covers more pollutants, including micropollutants

The Cabildo of Tenerife will invest 3.8 million euros in the commissioning of a desalination plant in Costa de Rojas, in the municipality of El Sauzal, which will provide 1,800 cubic metres of water per day

The Cabildo of Lanzarote plans to install five portable desalination plants and to accelerate the construction of a new 20,000m3/day desalination plant following the declaration of the Water Emergency

The Bahrain Electricity and Water Authority begins prequalification for interested bidders for the Sitra Independent Water and Power Plant (IWPP) project, which includes a 136,000 m3/day desalination plant

The current Secretary of State for Energy, Sara Aagesen, will replace Teresa Ribera as Third Vice-President of the Government and Minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge

The Balearic Islands allocates €288 million to water management by 2025. Among the planned actions is the expansion of the Alcúdia desalination plant (Mallorca) and the construction of new desalination plants in Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza

The project for the construction of a desalination plant to replace the existing portable desalination plant in Valle de Güímar (Tenerife) is moving forward

The Canary Islands Government will invest 2.3 million euros to increase the production capacity of the Los Cangrejos and La Restinga desalination plants, both located on the island of El Hierro

The Business Confederation of the Province of Almeria, Asempal, defends the reuse of reclaimed wastewater as a future solution for Almeria

The Secretary of State for the Environment has launched a tender for the implementation of a 3.79 MW photovoltaic generation system for complementary self-consumption at the Alicante I Desalination Plant

The Region of Murcia has invested 467,000 euros in the renovation of the tertiary treatment system of the Cieza WWTP

The tertiary treatment at the Almuñécar WWTP (Granada) will be expanded with a new reverse osmosis treatment stage to reduce the salinity of reclaimed water for agricultural irrigation

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development approves 200 million loan to the OCP Group for the construction of two desalination plants at its industrial complexes in El Jadida (Jorf Lasfar) and Safi in Morocco

The Government of Cyprus has approved a plan to build up to 10 new mobile desalination plants with a capacity of between 2000 and 10000 m3/day at a total estimated cost of 66.4 million euros

A joint venture between McCarthy and Jacobs will design and build the expansion of the Torrance brackish groundwater desalination plant in southern California

The Regional Government of Andalusia has approved the first Strategy for Non-Conventional Water Resources in Andalusia, which plans to increase the production capacity of these resources

The Cabildo de Tenerife improves the technical efficiency of the Fonsalía desalination plant and manages to increase the reserves of the Lomo de Balo reservoir

The Mexican Government presents a National Water Plan with 16 projects such as dams, aqueducts and desalination plants to guarantee water supply

A scientific team in Japan has developed a new plastic that is durable and biodegradable, but breaks down in seawater

Andalusia promotes with 50 M€ the use of reclaimed water in farms through the “Plan Parra”

The Provincial Council of Almeria will invest 2 million euros to bring to the province more than 1hm3 of desalinated water from the Águilas desalination plant (Murcia)

Three alternative locations are being considered for the Axarquia desalination plant (Malaga)

Research concludes that water scarcity threatens up to 40% of Brazil’s agriculture, which will reach critical levels in Matopiba, affecting key crops and the country’s food security

The Cabildo of Tenerife proposes to the Mesa de la Sequía to extend the Declaration of Water Emergency for three months, which will extend the measure until February 28th

The Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (ITC) partners with Brineworks to validate a large-scale, low-cost CO2 capture technology from brine, while producing green hydrogen

Israel has shown interest in assisting Tanzania with seawater desalination

A hotel in Playa Blanca (Lanzarote) has requested permission from the Lanzarote Water Board to start up a desalination plant for its own consumption

As in many other Mediterranean regions, drought and water stress affect a large part of Italy, where investment in water infrastructure, including desalination and reuse, is needed

Cadiz doubles water reserves compared to November 2023

Five companies have submitted bids for the maintenance of the Ibiza and Formentera wastewater treatment plants. The tender, which will run for four years, is valued at 21 million euros.

The Government gives the green light to the Royal Decree on water reuse, a necessary update following the approval of the EU Regulation for agricultural irrigation and the amendment in 2023 of the Consolidated Text of the Water Law

RETEMA is organising Future4 Water on 21 November, an event focused on sustainable water management, and thanks to the participation of AEDyR as a collaborating entity, all our members will be able to benefit from a 20% discount on their registrations

The CHJ will invest 20 million to improve the connection of the desalination plant with Mutxamel and El Campello and the creation of a 40,000 m3 tank

The General Directorate of Concessions of the Chilean Ministry of Public Works has presented the environmental impact study for the country’s first desalination concession, the Coquimbo desalination plant, which is expected to go out to tender later this year

On 1 October, the Californian regulation allowing direct potable use of reclaimed water came into force

The regulatory bases and the second call for subsidies for digitalisation projects for irrigation water user communities have been published

Neom desalination project (Saudi Arabia) receives interest from four bidders

The International Congress of ALADYR will be held in Santiago de Chile from 6 to 7 November

The Chennai Petroleum Corporation has announced plans to build a desalination plant with a capacity of 60,000m3/day at the mega-refinery in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu (India)

The city of Corpus Christi in the US state of Texas has selected Kiewit to lead the design and construction of the desalination plant

Egypt is advancing its strategic plan to build desalination plants in 11 coastal governorates, with the aim of ensuring water security

Es Migjorn Gran (Menorca) will have 100,000 m3 of reclaimed water after the installation of a tertiary treatment system in the treatment plant

The Generalitat Valenciana invests 4.7 million in the extension and improvement of the Turís-1 wastewater treatment plant (Valencia) with an advanced treatment system that allows the reuse of water

Study shows how water systems can help accelerate the uptake of renewable energy by making it more affordable and reliable

The Saudi Water Authority (SWA) is evaluating the five bids it has received for the construction of the Ras Al-Khair desalination plant

The Saudi Water Partnership Company has announced the preferred and reserve bidder for the Ras Mohaisen desalination plant, with a capacity of 300,000 m3/day

The Spanish Association of Urban Water Management Companies (AGA-AEAS) is born as a result of the union of both associations and Jesús Maza is its president

Transición Ecológica will invest 12 million euros to replace the turbines at the Alicante I desalination plant

Morocco relies on portable desalination plants to bring water to remote areas. Since 2023, it has deployed 44 of these compact and transportable units

The brackish water desalination plant for drinking water from the Padrón river aquifer in Estepona (Malaga) could soon be operational

MIT engineers build a new desalination system that works in rhythm with the sun

Abaqua tenders the improvement works in the desalination plant of Formentera

Algeria plans $3 billion investment for the construction of six new desalination plants by 2030

The Indian government wants to boost water reuse and proposes a new regulation that would require large consumers to reuse up to 50% of wastewater by 2031

Contract awarded to irrigate Elche’s historic orchards with reclaimed water

Benidorm aims to save two hm3 a year by using reclaimed water for irrigation of parks and gardens

The salinisation of the aquifer and wells worries farmers in Almuñécar (Granada)

ABAQUA’s truck dispenser service has replaced more than 7,000 m³ of groundwater with desalinated water in Ibiza

Global water cycle out of balance for the first time in human history

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

The Government approves the investment of 513 million for water infrastructures managed by Acuamed, which will allow the construction of the Foix desalination plant (Barcelona) and the enlargement of Tordera (Girona) to begin

Canary Islands Government authorises 11.9 M€ to finance 8 out of 10 new desalination plants for agricultural use

The Girona water consortium reduces the number of emergency desalination plants for the summer in the Costa Brava from 12 to 4

The contract for the waste water treatment plant at Pinedo (Valencia), the largest in the Valencia region with a tertiary treatment with a capacity of up to 350,000 m³/day, has been authorised

The Government earmarks 6.4 million euros from the eco-tax to modernise the Alcúdia and Andratx (Mallorca) desalination plants

The 10 hm3 increase in production capacity of the Campo de Dalías desalination plant (Almería) has received a favourable environmental report

EU seeks to double capacity of key Djibouti desalination plant

Enowa, the Saudi Arabian utility company for the Neom project, is extending the deadline for bids for the new 150,000 m3/day capacity desalination plant until the end of September

El Santa Clara Valley Water District, el mayor distrito de aguas de Silicon Valley, ha encargado por 1,7 millones de dólares un estudio de viabilidad para la construcción de una planta desaladora en San Francisco

A mega-project by a European consortium plans to invest 11 billion dollars in San Gregorio, in the Chilean region of Magallanes, to produce green hydrogen and ammonia and generate wind energy, and contemplates the construction of a desalination plant

Saudi Arabia signs an agreement for the installation of three 50,000 m3/day floating desalination plants and the water produced will be stored in tanks

Santa Cruz de Tenerife will double the capacity of the desalination plant located in Cueva Bermeja to 48,000m3/day with an investment of 20 million euros

The Santa Clara Valley Water District, the largest water district in Silicon Valley, has commissioned a $1.7 million feasibility study for the construction of a desalination plant in San Francisco

Sales of portable desalination plants have grown by 10-15% in the last year to avoid the effects of a possible drought

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

41% of Malaga residents opt for water desalination as the main option for combating drought, according to the barometer of the Malaga Provincial Council’s Madeca Foundation

Menorca’s hoteliers call for more water from the Ciutadella desalination plant to improve supply

The water from the aquifers of the Teulada and Benitatxell Consortium in Alicante is becoming saline and they are considering buying water from the desalination plant in Xàbia to try to save their water crisis

The Port of Tarragona starts up its first desalination plant

Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed officially inaugurated the Zarat desalination plant with an initial capacity to produce 50,000 m3/day, to be doubled to 100,000 m3/day by 2027

El agua regenerada salva al sector del plátano en Canarias frente a la crisis hidráulica

The Government approves the royal decree regulating the installation of floating photovoltaic plants on reservoirs in the public water domain

Research concludes that reclaimed water can be used to irrigate olive groves and demonstrates its benefits by reducing the cost of fertilisers

Bp’s green hydrogen hub in Castellón will use reclaimed water from the capital’s wastewater treatment plant

The Saudi Water Partnership Company has announced the launch of a Pre-qualification Programme for companies wishing to participate in the development of future projects

Cyprus is considering the construction of two new desalination plants in Limassol and Famagusta

The Council of Ministers has approved the extension works and the operation and maintenance service for the Águilas-Guadalentín desalination plant (Region of Murcia)

The new desalination plant at Costa Ayala (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) will produce 85,000 cubic metres per day and will provide 50% of the city’s water supply

Peru’s ProInversion agency has announced that it will offer a portfolio of 21 water projects to investors in public-private partnerships by 2026

Namibia to start construction of second desalination plant in January 2025

Research by the IIAMA-UPV highlights the potential of renewable energies to reduce the costs of desalination plants

3.5 million approved for emergency works at Sagunto desalination plant

The floating desalination plant in the port of Barcelona will be put out to public tender and will not be operational in October

Hidrogea is considering the construction of a 20 hm3 desalination plant for industrial and urban use in the Segura District

The Axarquia desalination plant gets underway: the preliminary project could be ready by the end of this year

The Government resumes the project to build a desalination plant in Denia (Alicante)

Lloret de Mar (Girona) halts the start-up of the mobile desalination plant to fill swimming pools after the end of the drought restrictions

The Govern has begun work on a proposal to build a fourth desalination plant on Ibiza to halve the use of water from the aquifers

The testing phase of the new seawater desalination plant at Zarat, in the province of Gabes (Tunisia), with a production capacity of 50,000 m3/day, expandable to 100,000 m3/day, has begun

The Catalan Water Agency (ACA) is finalising 6 new wells to make water from the Besòs River drinkable and supply it to Barcelona

The Cabildo of Tenerife earmarks 7.3 million euros to promote five works and alleviate the extreme drought

The dossier for the feasibility study of the new desalination plant in the south of Fuerteventura is started

A delegation from Uzbekistan visits our country to learn how water is managed in situations of scarcity

The assembly of the desalination plants in Estepona (Malaga) enters its final stretch while awaiting the permits

Several municipalities in Mallorca apply restrictions on water consumption due to the drought

Algeria could soon become one of the first African countries to produce reverse osmosis membranes locally

Australian researchers develop the world’s first thermal desalination method, in which the water remains liquid throughout the process

Bottled water has more microplastics than tap water, new study finds

Study finds high PFAS concentrations in ten EU countries

Declining snowfall is changing seasonal patterns of river flows across the northern hemisphere, increasing the likelihood of summer water shortages

The ocean is warming twice as fast as it did 20 years ago and is doing so steadily and steadily, according to a UNESCO study

Catalonia rules out transferring water by boat and will install a floating desalination plant in the port of Barcelona and 12 mobile desalination plants on the Costa Brava due to the drought

The extension of the Marbella desalination plant cuts deadlines and is expected to come into operation in autumn

Our president, Domingo Zarzo, has participated in the inauguration of the EUROMED 2024 Congress organised by the European Desalination Society

Egypt plans to tender for the construction of four desalination plants by mid-July

Benalmádena Town Council (Malaga) to build a portable desalination plant to combat drought

Benalmádena (Málaga) finds water at 250 metres with its first borehole in El Saltillo

The percentage of reclaimed water for agricultural use in 2023 in the Valencian Community increases by 6.25% to 131.67 hm3

Doubling the production of desalinated water with the construction of a new desalination plant in the northern area of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria included in the new investment plan

Catalonia emerges from drought emergency and eases restrictions after latest rains

The South Australian Government has selected part of the Cape Hardy harbour precinct in the south of the country as the site for the construction of a new desalination plant

Agriculture and Consumer Affairs back food industry’s ability to use reused water

A UPV study proposes increasing the use of reused and desalinated water, as well as increasing irrigation efficiency, as measures to adapt water management to climate change

Balearic Islands approves an investment of 2.3 M€ to improve the desalination plant in Formentera

The Thai government is promoting large-scale water projects, including the construction of two large-capacity desalination plants in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC)

Regenerated and desalinated water will represent almost half of the water resources available to irrigators in the Andalusian Mediterranean Basin

Saudi Arabia announces that it will strengthen its water sector with the establishment of the Saudi Water Authority (SWA), which is being created with the restructuring of the Saline Water Conversion Corporation

The Torrevieja desalination plant has been working for the last 7 months at the limit of its fresh water production capacity

Plans to build a cultural facility integrated into the future La Pedrera desalination plant in Salou (Tarragona)

Sixty irrigation communities bid for the desalinated water that the Taibilla transferred to the crops of the aqueduct

The sub-delegate of the Government in Huelva, María José Rico, does not rule out that if climate change advances, desalination plants will have to be built in Huelva

Approval of the extension to 20 cubic hectometres of capacity of the Marbella desalination plant

SWPC has received two bids, including from one of our partners, for the construction of the Ras Mohaisen desalination plant, south of Mecca (Saudi Arabia)

Renovation of a rack at the Racons desalination plant in Denia (Alicante) to guarantee quality supply

European Parliament gives green light to new EU waste water legislation

Completion of works to allow the use of reclaimed water in Atlanterra (Cádiz)

The ACA calls for tenders for the enlargement of the l’Escala water reclamation plant

The use in agriculture of regenerated water from the wastewater treatment plants in La Axarquía (Málaga) has led to the recovery of posidonia meadows in the area of the Paraje Natural de los Acantilados de Maro-Cerro Gordo

The Port of Tarragona studies the construction of a desalination plant in Salou

Lanzarote will be able to irrigate and put into production more than 1,300 hectares of arable land in Tinajo and Teguise with the installation of a reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant, with a production capacity of 3,600 m3/day

Five bids were submitted, several from our partners, to operate the Ibiza desalination plants for five years in two contracts worth a total of 27.5 million euros

Seville will be the venue for the next edition of the European Hydrogen Congress

The Government is working on the preliminary steps for the drafting of the project for the La Axarquía desalination plant

The Government and the Junta de Andalucía are working to bring water by tanker to Malaga

Five towns in Burgos exceed nitrate levels in drinking water

New EU-wide standard methodology to measure the presence of microplastics in water

The European Commission adopts a delegated act on water reuse, specifying the key technical elements to be examined and taken into account when preparing risk management plans

Figueres (Girona) to increase the flow of the river Muga with reclaimed water

1.5 million to reuse reclaimed water from the La Alameda Irrigation Community (Jaén)

Cadiz and San Fernando will be able to use the water from the wastewater treatment plant for irrigation and irrigation from summer onwards thanks to a portable plant that will allow the tertiary system to be applied and reuse up to 300 m3/day

Malaga seeks to increase the treatment capacity of the El Atabal desalination plant and the Guadalhorce WWTP by promoting two innovation projects to increase the production of water resources, reduce costs and generate energy from biogas

Alicante reuses 80% more water for agricultural use today than in 2010

The Spanish Federation of Food and Drink Industries (FIAB) has called on the government to allow the use of reused water in the food and drink industry

The Consell and town councils will ask the Govern for a study on the viability of the new desalination plant in Maó (Menorca)

Congress proposes the use of reclaimed water in the meat industry and livestock farming

The Catalan horticulture sector is asking to be allowed to irrigate with reclaimed water

The European Parliament has adopted a new directive and a new regulation to reduce emissions of industrial pollutants into water, soil and air pollution

Saudi-based Acwa Power will build Senegal’s first seawater desalination plant on the Grande Côte, about 40 km northeast of Dakar. Construction will be in two phases, each of which will produce 200,000 m3/day

The state-owned PowerChina Group has been awarded the construction of a desalination plant with a production capacity of 1,000,000m3/day in southern Iraq

Chile plans to launch tender for first desalination concession by year-end

Murcia shows its water purification and reclamation model to the California almond industry

El Poniente almeriense gains 14 cubic hectometres of reclaimed water after the inauguration of the tertiary treatment plant at the El Ejido WWTP

A seahorse is discovered in the vicinity of the Melilla desalination plant pipelines

The Generalitat will give Benidorm the Terra Mítica outfall to build a desalination plant

The Balearic Water Agency has extended the contract for the operation, maintenance and conservation service of the desalination plant in Ciutadella (Menorca) for a period of one year

The Cabildo of Tenerife invests 4.1 million in the improvement of the underwater outfall of the Adeje-Arona desalination plant, extending the outfall by 200 metres and leaving the outlet at a depth of more than 40 metres

Half of the water consumed in Melilla comes from the desalination plant

The General Meeting of the Marina Alta Water Supply and Sanitation Consortium has approved the project to connect the Xàbia desalination plant with Teulada-Benitatxell

Ibiza and Formentera receive two concessions to use treated and desalinated water in agriculture

Catalonia has ruled out the use of boats with water from the Sagunt desalination plant until August after the rains of the last few days

The installation of mobile desalination plants in Catalan ports to recharge water tanks and for cleaning tasks is being explored

The Cabildo of Tenerife will install five portable desalination plants in the areas to tackle the lack of water in agriculture

Abu Dhabi sets June as deadline for bidding for Saadiyat and Hudayriat desalination plants

Israel publishes tender for concession to operate and expand Ashkelon desalination plant from 120 to 220 million m3/year capacity

Egypt’s Suez Canal Economic Zone will put out an international tender for a 250,000 m3/day desalination plant

The contract for the operation of the Santa Eulària and Sant Antoni desalination plants in Ibiza is being put out to tender. The deadline for submitting bids is the 25th of March

The Corpus Christi (USA) desalination plant construction project has attracted the attention of contractors from around the world and at least 175 companies met with city officials last week to learn more about the project

The Government of the Balearic Islands will invest 12 million euros to expand the Santa Eulària (Ibiza) desalination plant

The San Sebastián de La Gomera desalination plant, the first to be installed on the island, will begin testing in March

EU agrees to improve urban wastewater treatment and reuse

Catalonia declares emergency in the face of the worst drought in its history

The Spanish Government will finance the two new desalination plants of Tordera II and Foix, which will increase production capacity in Catalonia by 80 hm3 per year

The Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Generalitat of Catalonia are considering sending water by ship from the Sagunto desalination plant to the port of Barcelona if the drought does not improve

The government will bring desalinated water from Sagunto to Catalonia in the face of its severe drought

Calpe (Alicante) modernises the Barranc Salat desalination plant to improve its performance after more than two decades of use

The desalination plants in the Valencian Community are at one third of their production capacity

The Council of Ministers approves the conclusion of the works that complement the project to extend the protection works at the Bajo Almanzora desalination plant (Almeria)

Valencian plants triple the volume of desalination in a decade: the eight facilities will increase from 30 cubic hectometres in 2015 to 99.83 in 2022

Barcelona will make it compulsory to reuse shower water for toilets in new and renovated buildings with more than 16 dwellings or with more than 500 m3 of annual expenditure on showers and bathtubs with a new regulation

“Spain is a power in desalination both for its installed capacity and the strength of its industry”

The Egyptian government has approved Law 2/2024 on incentives for green hydrogen projects and its derivatives, including the construction of desalination plants

A study commissioned by the Association of Horticulturists, Fruit and Flower Growers of the municipalities of Odemira and Aljezur (AHSA) in Portugal proposes the construction of a desalination plant in Odemira, in the Portuguese region of Beja

The Community of Madrid will invest 27 million euros in extending and improving treatment for reuse at the Galapagar-Torrelodones WWTP and the Guadarrama Medio WWTP

Reclaimed water as an effective measure against drought: how much is reused and for what purpose?

Mallorca will have a fourth desalination plant in the region of Migjorn

The 2023 drought in Spain generated economic losses of 5.5 billion euros

“The paradox is that we don’t question bottled water, which is worth a thousand times more than desalinated water”

The Andalusian Regional Government commissions the drafting of the project to extend the Almeria desalination plant

Castellón will invest nearly 70 million euros to ensure that water from the province’s desalination plants reaches more municipalities

The work on the preliminary reports required for the construction of the desalination plant in Estepona (Malaga) has been completed

The Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura starts processing a new concession for the Águilas desalination plant (Murcia) for 5 cubic hectometres per year for irrigation purposes

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, at the Torrevieja desalination plant: “Spain has become the European leader in desalinated water production”

Although the total amount of water available on Earth has been constant since the formation of the planet, its distribution between ocean, land and atmosphere, and its state (liquid, solid, gaseous) varies and satellite data indicate an increase in the oceans

Ibiza’s fourth desalination plant will have to wait until the next term in office

Menorca extracts 20 per cent more water from the aquifers than it is authorised to do

Drinking water will taste different for a few days in Oropesa (Castellón) because, due to maintenance work at the desalination plant, residents will receive well water: “The hardness and sodium content will increase considerably”

The City Council of San Fernando (Cádiz) is studying the possibility of installing a temporary or portable system to be able to reuse water and use it for irrigation and watering in the city

Experts in water resources see the desalination plant in Maó (Menorca) as inevitable: “The situation is very bad”

The Cabildo of El Hierro calls for tenders for the purchase of three mobile containerised desalination plants

Hoteliers in Lloret de Mar (Barcelona) will buy a portable desalination plant to fill their swimming pools with water

Formentera will not suffer water restrictions this summer despite being on drought alert, as its water supply is assured by desalination

After more than 20 years analysing the Posidonia oceanica meadows around the brine discharges and in Alicante there is no desalination plant that has affected them

The MAPA will allocate 60.4 million euros to build infrastructures to guarantee irrigation with desalinated and reclaimed water for irrigators in the region of Nijar (Almeria)

The Regional Government approves the expansion of the Marbella desalination plant to produce up to 20 cubic hectometres

Port de la Selva (Girona) will use regenerated water to lower the level of salts in the aquifer, which have increased due to the drought and are preventing the desalination plant from working at full capacity, and plans to install a new seawater desalination plant

In Spain we could potentially reuse 4,000 cubic hectometres of water, but we are regenerating less than 10% of this amount, just over 380 cubic hectometres

The University of Santiago de Compostela is leading a Europe-wide project to study the effects of using reclaimed water from the Lugo wastewater treatment plant on crops in A Coruña

They develop a model that predicts the additional nutrients that the use of reclaimed water brings to olive groves, the well-managed use of which “could help to reduce farmers’ investment in plant nutrients”

Will agriculture have to compete with green hydrogen for the use of reclaimed water?

Among the actions to mitigate the effects of the drought in the Tenerife countryside are the improvement of water quality in certain areas, the promotion of desalination and regenerated water as alternatives to the lack of water from galleries and wells

Government and Junta agree on emergency measures against the drought, including expansion of desalination plants and co-financing the transfer of water in boats from the desalination plant in Murcia

The 5th edition of the MENA Desalination Projects Forum was held on 4-5 March 2024 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

The European Union has decided to postpone a major initiative to improve its resilience against droughts and floods at a time when southern Europe is facing serious water scarcity problems

Currently, approximately 57,142 hectares of Spanish countryside are irrigated with reclaimed water and 20,550 hectares with desalinated water.

Desalinated water consumption in Ibiza reaches another record figure in 2023 after a rise of 3.5%

The Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) breaks nine Guinness World Records in desalination, including the world’s largest desalination plant, the plant with the lowest energy consumption and the world’s largest mobile desalination plant

Announcing the creation of the XPRIZE competition water scarcity competition, a US$119 million, 5-year global competition for innovative desalination solutions

The Roses – Cap de Creus Business Association has proposed to the Roses Town Council (Girona) to install a large desalination plant in the area of the former shellfish treatment plant

Water ships for Andalusia: one ship a day and a bill of 20 million euros in transport alone

The ICEX will organise a networking breakfast on 22 March with the Guanajuato State Water Commission (CEAG) in Mexico to showcase the experience of Spanish companies in the management of water resources and seek solutions to water scarcity

After two atmospheric rivers hit Southern California in the space of a few days, Los Angeles’ “sponge city” infrastructure has been able to capture some 32.5 hm3 of water, which can supply more than 100,000 homes for a year

The Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura (CHS) has begun the study phase with the drafting of the construction project to provide the Region of Murcia with a new desalination plant

The Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC) has sent out the request for proposals for the Jubail 4 and 6 desalination plants to the nine pre-qualified bidders, including several of our members

María Dolores Pascual Vallés ha sido nombrada oficialmente como la nueva Directora General del Agua. Hasta su nombramiento era presidenta de la Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro

The Catalan Water Agency has put out to tender the drafting of the project for the construction of a Water Regeneration Station at the Reus (Tarragona) wastewater treatment plant

The Chilean government confirms the construction of a desalination plant in the Coquimbo region, to be tendered in the second half of this year

Approval of the works to extend tertiary treatment at the Jerez Wastewater Treatment Plant (Cadiz)

The Andalusian Regional Government will install four portable desalination plants in Malaga: in the Trapiche DWTP (Velez-Malaga), in the Guadalmansa river wells, in the Fuengirola river and in the Marbella desalination plant

Various obstacles delay works approved in the law against drought in Catalonia, including the deadlines for the tendering of the Tordera II desalination plant

Singapore’s National Water Agency to fund desalination and water reuse innovation projects

China’s Shanghai Electric has won a contract to build a seawater desalination plant in Iraq

The municipality of Estepona (Málaga) asks the Junta for permission for a brackish water desalination plant

The European Commission has adopted, by means of three delegated acts, new hygiene rules for materials and products that come into contact with drinking water

The environmental monitoring programme of the Torrevieja desalination plant shows that the conservation of the habitat has remained at similar values since 2015

The Balearic Water Board gives the green light to the construction of a fourth desalination plant in Ibiza in the long term

Abaqua believes that “before the summer of 2025” work will have begun on extending the Santa Eulària desalination plant (Ibiza)

Almost half of the water supplied by the Mancomunidad del Taibilla to the province of Alicante comes from desalination plants

The Consorci d’Aigües de Tarragona is committed to desalination plants and reclaimed water

In Morocco, by 2030, 50% of drinking water supply will come from desalination, with the plan to build several desalination plants with a production of 1.4 billion m3

Catalonia to reuse 70% of treated water by 2040

China’s water-scarce cities to exceed 25% in wastewater reuse by 2025

A study on the cultivation of red fruits in Huelva advocates the introduction of desalination and water reuse

The Junta de Andalucía announces a further expansion of the Marbella desalination plant to 20hm3

500 organisations participate in the second PERTE call for proposals on water digitalisation

Chile’s law allowing the Ministry of Public Works to build desalination plants enters into force

Water cuts begin on the Costa del Sol: Fuengirola lowers water pressure at night

The improvement of the tertiary treatment plants in Nerja, Guadalhorce and Antequera will increase the amount of water reused for agricultural irrigation in Malaga

The Canary Islands grants 10.5 million euros in subsidies to reduce the costs of water extraction and desalination for agricultural irrigation

Acosol will build an artificial wetland to recharge aquifers with reclaimed water produced at the La Vibora WWTP (Marbella)

Thirteen irrigation communities in the Vega Baja will have a direct connection to the Torrevieja desalination plant

Avocado and mango growers willing to finance desalination plant construction

Feragua will request that the future Andalusian Sustainable Environmental Management Law eliminate or reduce to a minimum the environmental formalities for wastewater treatment and desalination plants by classifying them as green works

Andalusia approves its fourth drought decree, endowed with 218 million euros

COAG Cádiz calls for a provincial Water Board to seek solutions to the drought and advocates investment in water reuse

Barcelona is working on a new grey water ordinance to make it compulsory to reuse shower water for toilets in new building works or major renovations

Researchers succeed in combating microplastics with artificial proteins capable of degrading PET micro- and nanoplastics

Better forest management could increase river flows by 20%, study finds

The world’s aquifers are being depleted at an accelerated rate due to climate crisis

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