RWL Water Group과 멕시코의 Libra Ingenieros Civiles, RJ Ingenieria의 컨소시엄은 멕시코 바하칼리포르니아(Baja California)에 위치한 하루 2만2천㎥ 규모의 RO 해수담수화 플랜트 시공을 시작했다.

지난해 11월 바하칼리포르니아주와 컨소시엄 간에 체결된 민관협력 파트너십 하에 컨소시엄은 BOT 계약을 통해 3천200만 달러의 파이낸싱 등을 제공할 예정이다. 프로젝트 관리기업인 RWL Water는 전 과정 설계 및 공정 장비를 제공하고 30년 협정에 따라 플랜트를 운영하게 된다.

 

 

 

A consortium of RWL Water Group and Mexico's, Libra Ingenieros Civiles and RJ Ingenieria has begun construction of 22,000 m3/d reverse osmosis (RO) seawater desalination plant in Mexico's Baja California.

 

Under the public private partnership between Baja California state and the consortium struck in November past year, the consortium will finance and deliver the US$ 32 million project through a build own transfer contract.

 

RWL Water be project manager, provide all the process design and process equipment, and operate the plant under a 30-year agreement.

 

Libra Ingenieros Civiles has been responsible for local agency permitting and provided design and equipment while RJ Ingenieria will design and carry out the civil engineering works.

 

The contract to build the plant in the important, export-produce agricultural region of San Quintin some 240 km from the San Diego border is understood to be the first approved under Baja California's recently struck public-private partnership law.

 

The facility is one of two, similarly-sized RO plants under construction in Baja California. The other is in about 150 km away in Ensenada and scheduled to open in April 2017. And Baja California is looking into a second public-private partnership to build a third, much larger desalination plant.

 

[출처 = Desalination & Water Reuse / 2016년 3월 14일]