US Annual Desalination Market to Increase by 2016

The US will spend about $3.3bn a year on building and operating desalination plants, according to a report by Global Water Intelligence.

The report estimates the current US desalination capacity to be 2.3 billion gallons per day, which is expected to increase to 3.4 billion gallons per day by 2016.

The cost of operating the existing and new plants will rise to $1.3bn compared with $822.1m in 2010.

The report forecasts the global desalination capacity to grow from current 18 billion gallons per day to 34.3 billion gallons per day by 2016.