Namibian desal gathers pace
- From: Vol 8, Issue 11 (November 2007)
- Category: General
- Region: Africa
- Country: Namibia
- Related Companies: Areva, Forsys Metals, Keyplan, Norit, UraMin and X-Flow
Namibian desal plants are like buses: you wait for ages, and then two come along at once. Southern Africa’s driest nation has long pondered desal. Now rising demand from a new crop of uranium mines is fuelling demand.
Namibia’s long anticipated move towards large-scale desalination is finally set to become a reality. The
recent groundswell of desal momentum has culminated in Namibia’s first significant desalination award, with South African engineering company Keyplan taking the contract to engineer, procure and construct a 55,000m3/d seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant to serve the development of UraMin ...
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