오만은 동력 및 물 생산자는 하루 2억5천 리터를 생산하는 담수화 플랜트 건설을 위해 도시 해변의 부지를 찾고있다고 밝혔다.

State-owned Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) 는 오만해와 아라비아해, 인도양 해변이 Independent Power Projects (IPPs)와 Independent Water Projects (IWPs)를 시행하기 적합하다고 말했다. 계획된 물 생산은 2018년 7월 착수할 계획이며 20년 동안 Water Purchase Agreement 아래 관리된다고 설명했다.

Oman's power and water production procurer has identified new sites on the country's coast for desalination plants with a total production potential for 250 million litres a day.

State-owned Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) said it has identified dozens of sites along the Sea of Oman, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean coasts suitable for hosting Independent Power Projects (IPPs) and Independent Water Projects (IWPs). The planned water production is scheduled to start in July 2018 under a 20-year Water Purchase Agreement OPWP said.

The locations form part of a coastal 'land bank' for development as power and water production sites to address domestic demand growth over the next 30 years, the company said in a recent report. OWP said it need to designate sites before suitable locations became scarce in the face of burgeoning infrastructure and commercial investment along the coast.

OPWP said it was pondering a more flexible process for the awarding of new water purchase agreements, aimed at increasing competition between new-build and existing

 

[출처 = Desalination & Water Reuse / 2014년 7월 4일]