UAE – Mubasher: Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) has announced that the production of desalinated water using low carbon reverse osmosis (RO) technology from the Taweelah RO facility has reached a capacity of 50%, the Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported.
Taweelah RO, which provides 100 million gallons per day of desalinated water, aims to produce 200 million gallons per day and become the world’s largest RO facility.
Besides Taweelah RO, the UAE has three other operational desalination plants with RO capacity, including Fujairah F1 Power and Water Plant, Fujairah F2 Combined Cycle Power Plant, and Mirfa M1.
All four plants produce 227 million gallons of water per day through RO. The figure is expected to rise to 327 million gallons once Taweelah RO reaches full operating capacity.
Meanwhile, water produced using low carbon-intensive RO technology will represent around one-third of total water production in Abu Dhabi.
The CEO of EWEC, Othman Al Ali, said: "As we lead the decoupling of water and power production, EWEC is continuing to invest heavily in the development of RO projects and by 2030 expect over 90% of our water production to be via RO, resulting in the total carbon emissions associated with water production falling from 14.60 million tons in 2020 to 2.10 million tons by 2030."
Last January, Aldar Properties penned a five-year deal with EWEC to power all of its operating assets with clean energy.
