샌안토니오 지하수 담수화 플랜트의 1단계가 내년 완공될 것으로 보인다. 1억9천300만 달러 규모의 이번 1단계 시설은 샌안토니오 상수도 이용자를 위해 하루 50ML의 신선한 식수를 생산할 예정이다. 샌안토니오 상수도 관계자에 따르면 차후 계획된 나머지 두 단계가 2021년과 2025년 완공되면 하루 120ML 이상의 생산량을 추가로 생산할 것으로 기대된다.

관계자는 모든 단계에 소요되는 비용은 4억1천만 달러 이상이 될 것이라고 말했다.

 

 

 

The first phase of a groundwater desalination plant in San Antonio is set to be completed next year. The US$ 193 million first phase will produce fresh drinking water at about 50 Ml/d for customers of the San Antonio Water System.

 

According to the San Antonio Water System, two planned subsequent phases will take the output to more than 120 Ml/d by 2021 and 2026. Water System officials said the cost of all phases would come to more than US$ 410 million. The water system has accessed more than US$ 100 million in low-interest loans from the Texas Water Development Board for the project. Work on the plant began in July 2014 at the Water System's Twin Oaks plant.Eleven of the plant's 12 wells have been drilled but still need to be equipped with pumps and motors. Last year the Water System's chief executive officer, Robert Peunte was reported as saying: "the whole state of Texas is excited about," the conversion of salty groundwater to potable water. But San Antonio was yet to do it. "There's an ocean of brackish groundwater right under our feet," Peunte said.

 

[출처 = Desalination & Water Reuse / 2015년 9월 15일]