Aqualia Secures Chile Water Contract

FCC, a subsidiary of Spanish water company Aqualia, has secured a €17m ($22.7m) contract to design and supply seawater reverse-osmosis equipment for a desalination plant in Chile.

The project includes the development of a desalination plant and the supply, installation and commissioning of electromechanical equipment.

The desalination plant will supply industrial water to the Minera Candelaria mine, which is 80% owned by US company Freeport and 20% by Japan’s Sumitomo.

The plant will produce 30 million litres of water a day.