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It is the largest desalination of seawater in operation of Australia

The Sydney desalination plant WINS Global Water Award 2010

Drafting Interempresas29/07/2011

July 29, 2011

The desalination plant in Sydney, designed, built and operated by a joint venture owned by Veolia Water, has received the "Global Water Award 2010" in the category of best desalination plant of the year.

Awarded in 2007 by the Government of new South Wales, Sydney desalination has a current treatment capacity of 250,000 cubic metres per day and is designed for a possible extension to the 500,000 cubic meters per day. This plant is the largest desalination of sea water in Australia operation, and the third largest in the world.

The project, whose consolidated economic value was around 570 million euros for Veolia including the operation contract for twenty years, was conceived in order to meet the demand for drinking water for the growing population of Sydney, which currently has a population of 1.5 million inhabitants and a one million additional growth expected for the next 25-30 years. Another reason for the realization of this great project focused on uncertainty for climate change and its possible influence on the severe drought which hit Australia in 2007.

Magazine Global Water Intelligence, one of the internationally recognized and prestigious industry publications annually awards these awards are voted by its readers and members of the International Desalination Association (IDA), and who are intended to recognize the innovation and commitment to those companies that are working to ensure that future generations can enjoy that so little good, as it is the water.

Aerial view of the Sydney desalination plant.

Veolia builds a new desalination plant in Kuwait

Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies has been awarded a new contract to undertake the design and construction of a plant's desalination of seawater to the Ministry of water and electricity Kuwait. The contract has been awarded to a joint venture formed by Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies and the local Builder Alghanim international and its economic amounting to 137 million euros, 81 of which correspond to the part of Veolia. The desalination plant sea water, using reverse osmosis technology, you will have a production capacity of 136,000 cubic metres of water a day and it will be located in the thermal Az-Zour, about 80 kilometers from the city of Kuwait.

At the global level, VWS is one of the leaders in design and construction of plants for the treatment of water, with a presence in 57 countries, a turnover of 2,150 billion euros in 2010 with 9,600 employees.