Abengoa Desalination Plant to Supply Water to 500,000
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Abengoa SA, a Spanish company that converts biomass into biofuels and produces drinking water from seawater, started work on a desalination plant in Agadir, Morocco, that will supply water to 500,000 people in the area.
The Seville-based energy and environment company said that the plant when operational will provide 100,000 cubic meters a day of potable water using ultrafiltration pre-treatment and reverse-osmosis technologies to purify the salt water. About 82 million ($86 million) in financing was arranged with local banks for the public-private partnership project, it said.