Water. Desalination + reuse
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Water. desalination + reuse June 2017 The Quarterly 7 What happens next? What did people say? The editor The deal is expected to close by mid-year, when the name of the new company will be confirmed. Suez brings expertise in EPC and O&M relationships to the table, and GE Water brings its technology, including the InSight digital platform and its established, ongoing customer base. The cost of implementing the new business structure is to be spread through 2017 to 2019; 80 per cent of cost and revenue synergies are expected to come through by year three; and the full benefits of synergies will be realised over five years. "It's a very strategic move for Suez and we are of course very happy to have been able to close the deal. Fantastic." Jean-Louis Chaussade Suez CEO, speaking to Bloomberg at JP Morgan Global Markets Conference in Paris The joint venture partners have signed a limited notice to proceed, and the full notice is due to be signed on 27 July 2017. The contract is with ACWA Power and provides for project engineer- ing, supply and construction services. The produced water will be supplied to national water agency Saline Water Conversion Cor- poration, and will serve the populations of Al-Baha, Jeddah, Makkah, and Taif. Work on the project is expected to complete by May 2019. As well as kicking off with the Shoaiba project in Saudi Arabia, Doosan is currently working on a separate, KRW 460 billion ($400 million) deal, announced in May 2016, to build a desalination plant in Kuwait known as Doha phase one. The 270,000 m/d reverse osmosis plant is due to complete in November 2018, and Doosan is contracted to provide O&M services until November 2023. Both reports outline the benefits of a multi-stakeholder approach to water project governance, combining the community, central and local government, funding agencies, business, utilities, non-governmental organisations, and solutions providers. The Global Agenda Council, whose work will be taken forward by the Global Water Leaders' Group, is looking to develop a series of pilot projects around the world to demonstrate the potential of this approach. "We are facing a battle against time. The cost of coping with inadequate access to water is rising faster than utility investment." A New Model for Water Access — A Global Blueprint for Innovation A cost shared is a lot more sustainable In Q2, a number of new ways of putting together projects came to light that share the same motivation to keep down the cost of constructing and operating water transport systems. In Jordan, the country's first seawater desalination plant will provide water to the local municipality and an indus- trial partner, whose process cooling water is also used as intake for the plant. It enabled the desal plant project not to have to build an open water intake structure, and provides a useful service for the client. More and more, sharing water infrastructure between industry and utilities, and identifying the most cost ef- fective ways of utilising and transporting water resources is going to be the norm. In Chile, one engineer is looking to finance construc- tion of a desalination project that aims to provide water to multiple different mining cli- ents. Because the mines are located hundreds of metres above sea level in Atacama region, it makes sense to build a single water convey- ance, and to share the cost. Email the editor at desalination@fav-house.com "With this new contract we consolidate as a desalination provider, with total installed capacity of 1.5 million m3/d." Pedro Almagro Abengoa Agua executive director "We are excited to win this new, large scale desalination project. We will continue to concentrate our efforts on expanding our presence in the global RO desalination market, which is expected to reach $4.5 billion by 2020." Seokwon Yoon Water business group director, and executive vice presi- dent, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction