The seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant will be located at the Port of Fujairah, the second such facility delivered under a public-private partnership model in the United Arab Emirates.
Las Virgenes Municipal Water District this fall will suspend ''pod' at depth in Santa Monica Bay to produce desalinated water using developer OceanWell's innovative technology, with less energy needed and less brine created.
The public-private partnership will manage construction of the world's second largest desalination facility, set to meet 40% of the country's drinking water needs.
The $400-million P3 puts ACWA Power behind Azerbaijan’s first desalination plant near the capitol of Baku, while financing and EPC details are still being worked out.
With desalination in Spain an important strategy amid ongoing water shortages partially linked to climate change, a plant in Torrevieja—a coastal Mediterranean city in the country's southeast—plans to boost its output of desalinated water by 50%.