Noticias sobre Chile
Codelco will begin construction of US$1 billion desalination plant
The Chilian state-owned copper mining company, Codelco, will begin building a US$1 billion desalination plant for its northern operations this year.
Aqualia obtains a €1.1 billion green corporate loan, led by CaixaBank
CaixaBank has led the syndicated loan, acting as financing coordinator, agent bank, solebookrunner and sustainability agent.
Chile’s Peñuelas reservoir dries up as historic drought enters its 13th year
The Peñuelas reservoir in central Chile, which once used to be the main water source for Valparaiso, a metropolitan area with nearly 1 million residents, is almost dry, reports Reuters.
Global actions on World Environment Day underscore urgent need to protect the planet
Individuals, communities, civil society, businesses and governments around the world marked World Environment Day under the theme #OnlyOneEarth, with official celebrations held in Stockholm and host country Sweden announcing a ban on issuing new licenses for the extraction of coal, oil, and natural gas from 1 July this year to protect people and planet.
Idrica launches new solutions and expands GoAigua platform to cater for other areas of water cycle
Idrica has developed new software solutions for the water cycle in the areas of drinking water, sanitation, urban irrigation, agriculture, water resources and reuse.
UN and partners detail the abundance and promise of diverse “unconventional” water resources
UN and partner water experts say it’s time to increase the tapping of Earth’s diverse and abundant unconventional water resources – the millions of cubic kilometres of water in deep land-based and seabed aquifers, in fog and icebergs, in the ballast holds of thousands of ships, and elsewhere.
John Bowleg: “Degradation of water resources and loss of biodiversity must be urgently halted”
Climate change, urban sprawl, population growth and water quality degradation mean that the planet is facing new challenges that require lasting and resilient solutions.
Study finds that landslides can have a major impact on glacier melt and movement
A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has revealed, for the first time, that landslides can have a major impact on the movement of glaciers.
Idrica deploys its solutions to help reduce non-revenue water in the city of Piura, Peru
Project financed by the Inter-American Development Bank, with the participation of the Peruvian Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation and EPS Grau.
Climate change could see London and other world cities run out of water
New report reveals drought is a present danger to some of the poorest people in the world and it threatens their lives and livelihoods, from Harare in Zimbabwe to London and the South East.
“With reverse osmosis, ACCIONA has attained minimal costs efficiently and sustainably”
Desalination know-how: meet the industry leaders is an interview series with major players from the global desalination industry.
ACCIONA is recognised with two Distinctions in Global Water Awards 2022
Global Water Intelligence has awarded ACCIONA Distinctions in the “Desalination Company of the Year” and “Wastewater Project of the Year” categories for the Bahr el-Baqar wastewater treatment plant in Egypt.
“Globally, desalination is positioning itself as an essential need”
Desalination know-how: meet the industry leaders is an interview series with major players from the global desalination industry.
“Oblysis tech seeks to optimize processes associated with treatment via efficiency improvement”
Oblysis, by Minsait, is a disruptive technology designed to optimise the operational efficiency of wastewater treatment plants, focusing on three main areas: energy consumption, sludge production and reagent consumption.
“Making projects more sustainable and saving on costs are key points for desalination”
Desalination know-how: meet the industry leaders is an interview series with major players from the global desalination industry.
Sacyr boosted its EBITDA by 25% to €243 million
The company’s focus on P3 projects shows on the EBITDA: this type of assets, with low demand risk, were 83% of the EBITDA this year. The future revenue backlog grew by 5% to €48,343 million.
Freshwater habitats are fragile pockets of exceptional biodiversity, study finds
While much research has focused on the striking differences in biodiversity between tropical and temperate regions, another, equally dramatic, pattern has gone largely unstudied: the differences in species richness among Earth's three major habitat types—land, oceans and freshwater.
“A secondary effect of applying Sea4Value findings is an increase in desalination efficiencies”
In 2019, in an UN-backed report, experts warned of rising levels of toxic brine as a result of a growing number of seawater desalination plants being built around the world to meet growing water needs.
Tedagua to present its experience in desalination at the MENA Desalination Projects Forum
Luis Miguel Arauzo led a presentation where Tedagua's success stories were shown, which have added value both in the application of technological improvements and in environmentally sustainable solutions for water desalination projects in the regions where they have been carried out.
Chile’s Laguna de Aculeo dries up amid backdrop of water rights debate
Laguna de Aculeo, a lake in central Chile, has completely dried up.