Water. Desalination + reuse
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water.desalination+reuse March 2017 SPONSORED ARTICLE W ith an even more global vision, plus a firm commitment to innova- tion and the use of state-of-the-art technologies to launch its projects, ACCIONA Agua starts 2017 as one of the sector leaders worldwide. In 2016, It won its first contracts in countries such as the Philippines and Canada and has strengthen its presence in Latin America or the Arabian Gulf. During the year 2017, through the devel- opment and application of in-house technol- ogies in state-of-the-art infrastructures for desalination, potabilization and wastewater treatment, ACCIONA Agua will make a key contribution to changing trends in desalina- tion techniques. It is moving away from older thermal processes such as MSF and MED towards reverse osmosis, for example with the Ras Abu Fontas Desal plant in Qatar. New markets for desalination through reverse osmosis Despite the abundant water resources in the Philippines, access to potable water is unequal in the country. A large part of the population opts for self-supply, which increases the importance of the future Puta- tan 2 Drinking Water Plant that ACCIONA Agua is now building in Greater Manila, in be reversed with the two-new large-scale reverse osmosis plants that Acciona Agua is currently building. The two plants have a daily production capacity of 450,000 m3. Through milestones such as the start-up of the first phase of Ras Abu Fontas 3, which has started recently to produce water a•er just 2 years - making it the first large-scale desalination plant using reverse osmosis in Qatar- the change of paradigm in these pro- cesses in the region has already become a reality. ACCIONA Agua entered the Canadian market for the first time. In Saint John (New Brunswick) the company will renew the city's water distribution system, the biggest in the province and the oldest in Canada, under a 217-million Canadian dollar contract that includes the construction of a drinking plant, a storage facility with capacity for 75 million liters per day and a tank to provide a service to around 70,000 people. Over thirty projects in Latin America The water and sanitation sector has become one of the main drivers of develop- ment in Latin America, a continent where ACCIONA Agua has continued to consolidate its presence in 2016. Peru, Ecuador, Santo Domingo or Mexico are just some of the 12 countries in the region where ACCIONA Agua now operates. New projects for 2017 are the management of the integrated water cycle, the improve- ment of energy consumption, the overall development of plants and smart control systems, or research into state-of-the-art technologies are just some of the areas that will characterize the company in 2017. These areas will also determine its evolution and future projects. ACCIONA Agua focuses on its own innovation processes and technology to take the plunge into new markets In 2016, ACCIONA Agua started its first projects in South-East Asia and Canada and has increased its presence in Latin America and the Gulf States. INfLuENCER SPONSORED ARTICLE the southern part of the country's capital city. This contract is a major step forward for ACCIONA Agua in South-East Asia and a represents a radical improvement in water treatment in the country. The plant, which will supply almost 6 million people with a capacity of up to 150,000 m3 per day, will use reverse osmosis technology for the advanced treatment of raw water from Laguna de Bay, the biggest lake in the Philippines. In Qatar, which is one of the richest countries in the world but has enormous water needs, thermal processes accounted for almost 100% of the installed desalina- tion capacity in the country. This trend will