Instant desal market comes of age
- From: Vol 9, Issue 11 (November 2008)
- Category: General
- Region: Unspecified
- Country: Cyprus, Oman and Saudi Arabia
- Related Companies: ACWA Power, Aqualyng, Nirosoft, Preussag and Subseas Industries
Temporary seawater desalination plants look set to become a permanent fixture of the water industry as matching water supply and demand becomes an ever greater challenge.
When GWI wrote about offshore desalination plants back in 2005, our contributor Gord Cope delivered his copy with a note, commenting that “hell will freeze over before those guys get a deal”. The problem he identified was that no one was prepared to finance a shipbased desalination plant unless they had a supply contract, and no one was prepared to ...
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