[멕시코] 서부에서 가장 큰 디젤 플랜트 건설 청신호

콘솔리데이티드 워터스 멕시코(Consolidated Water's Mexico)의 자회사 NSC Agua는 누워터(NuWater)와 데그레몽(Degremont)의 멕시코 기업체와 컨소시엄을 구성하여 멕시코 바자 캘리포니아(Baja California) 정부로부터 로사리토 해안(Rosarito) 해수 RO 담수화 플랜트 건설 계약을 따냈다.

공공 민간 제휴의 합의는 8월 중순경에 마무리 될 것으로 예상되며, 소유권에 바자 캘리포니아(Baja California)주에 귀속되기 전 40동안 어떤 컨소시엄이 건설하고 운영될지 결정될 것이다.

완공되면, 멕시코 사용자에게 물을 제공하고 궁극적으로 멕시코-미국 국경을 가로질러 캘리포니아 샌디에이고 카운티에 물을 공급하는 서반구에서 가장 큰 담수화 플랜트가 될 것이다. 

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Largest desal plant in the West gets the green light in Mexico

Consolidated Water's Mexico subsidiary NSC Agua, in consortium with the Mexican entities of NuWater and Degremont, has won a contract to build a seawater RO desalination plant at Rosarito Beach, from the government of Baja California, Mexico.

A public private partnership agreement is expected to be finalised by mid-August, by which the consortium will build and operate the plant for 40 years, before ownership transfers to Baja California state.

When complete, Rosarito Beach will be the largest desalination plant in the Western hemisphere, providing water to consumers in Mexico, and potentially supplying water across the Mexico-US border into San Diego County, California.

The consortium will finance, design, construct, operate and maintain the plant and pipeline, delivering potable water in two phases. Phase one will produce 50 million gallons of drinking water a day for the people of Mexico, beginning 2019; and phase two will double the plant's capacity to 100 million gallons a day by 2024, and extend the delivery pipeline, potentially across the border.

Frederick McTaggart, president and chief executive of Consolidated Water, said: "It was gratifying to learn that our consortium received top points for both its technical and financial proposals, and we look forward to working closely with Baja California to ensure the success of this extremely important infrastructure project."

[출처 = Desalination & Water Reuse / 2016년 6월 23일]