The plant will help meet the demand for water in the metropolitan area through tanker trucks from Punta Tigre to Montevideo.
The desalination plant of water of joint venture will start working in the next few days to help SBI to supply this resource – which would be taken from the Rio de la Plata – to the metropolitan area.
The reverse osmosis machinery would provide some relief to the south of the country, which is suffering from the water crisis, with two million liters a day that would be transported through Tank trucks. This process has already been carried out in ancap several months ago with the aim of preventing the salinity of the water from destroying the pipes of the La Teja refinery for the production of fuels.
“Everything is ready for OSE to start removing the water,” explained the UTE director, Philip Algorta in the middle Underlined. The director specified that the plant will work 24 hours to meet the requirements of Ancap and OSE.
The reverse osmosis plant, located in tiger point, San José, works in the process of industrial electricity generation through thermal energy from the Punta del Tigre plant that UTE has for its support.
A stranded desalination plant in Houston
One of the measures taken by the government was the purchase of a desalination plantwhich would provide immediate solutions to the lack of drinking water in the metropolitan area. The government’s intentions were for the machinery to arrive these days on the Hercules plane from Houston, but there was an unexpected inconvenience.
However, the bad news came from the American city, when they confirmed that the plant did not enter the Hercules plane. “By 15 centimeters apparently it does not enter the Hercules”, Delgado specified at a press conference.
According to the Secretary of the Presidency, the first measures sent by the company indicated that the machinery would enter the plane. However, the company adjusted the measurements, causing the Hercules to be small. Given this, Delgado assured that the machine is in the country “In a few weeks”.
Source: Ambito
