Capital investment in thermal and membrane desalination 2006-2016 - CHART

This month’s chart comes from our new Global Water Market 2008 report.

It shows two interesting things about the market: first that membrane desal will overtake thermal desal in expenditure terms in 2009. Reverse osmosis is already bigger than thermal in terms of capacity, but as the mix of brackish water RO plants and seawater RO plants tilts more in favour of seawater, the cost of membrane plants will increase rapidly. The ...

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