in aquifers and to be completed by 2025

DEWA completes the first phase of the “Desalinated Water Storage and Recovery” project

  • The new project is the largest of its kind in the world for storing drinking water.

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  • Saeed Al Tayer: “Providing advanced infrastructure to ensure keeping pace with the rapid increase in water needs in various regions of Dubai.”

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The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced the completion of the construction and construction works of the first phase of the desalinated water storage and recovery project in groundwater basins, and the start of the operational and testing phases of the project.

When completed by 2025, this project will allow six billion gallons to be stored and retrieved when needed, making it the largest of its kind in the world for emergency potable water storage and provision.

This technology will provide a strategic stockpile that supplies the emirate with more than 50 million gallons of water per day for 90 days in emergency cases, while ensuring the safety of the stored water from external influences.

Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Managing Director and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, indicated that "the project supports the authority's efforts to increase the storage capacity of the Emirate of Dubai, to reach 7.212 billion gallons in 2025, compared to the current capacity of 822 million gallons."

Al Tayer added: “We are working within the framework of the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to provide a sophisticated, integrated and flexible infrastructure for electricity and water in Dubai, according to the highest standards of availability, reliability, efficiency and safety, to ensure keeping pace with the rapid increase in electricity and water. Water needs in various regions of Dubai, and continue to provide water to all citizens, residents and visitors in all circumstances.

He continued, "In addition to the project to store and recover desalinated water in the groundwater basins, a water tank project is being implemented in the (Al-Nakhli) area with a capacity of 120 million gallons, and another tank project in the (Al-Lisaili) area with a capacity of 60 million gallons."

The groundwater storage and recovery project enhances the sustainability of water production in Dubai, as the project is based on taking advantage of clean solar energy to desalinate sea water, using the latest “reverse osmosis” technologies, then storing the excess production in groundwater basins, restoring it and pumping it into the water network when the need.

This innovative holistic model is characterized by its low cost, compared to traditional tanks, and represents a sustainable and environmentally friendly economic solution, and confirms Dubai's ability to foresee and manufacture the future.

The Authority’s production capacity for desalination is currently 490 million gallons per day, including 63 million gallons using “reverse osmosis” technology, and it is expected that the production capacity using the same technology will reach 303 million gallons of desalinated water per day by 2030, bringing the total production capacity to 730 million gallons a day.

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