OHL to build desalination plant in Mexico

Spanish firm OHL Medio Ambiente, Inima has received a contract to design, build, operate and maintain a desalination plant to supply drinking water to the municipality of Ensenada in Baja California, Mexico.

OHL received the €29.4m contract from Comision Estatal del Agua, the state water commission of Baja California.

The contract covers maintenance of the plant for 20 years.

The desalination plant will have a capacity to produce 7.9 million cubic metres of drinking water per year, and will consist of a seawater intake and outlet, pretreatment, reverse osmosis, post-treatment and drinking water pumping station and pipelines.