Abengoa completes Angola water treatment plant

Abengoa has completed the construction of a water treatment plant to supply drinking water from Xangongo to Ondjiva in the province of Cunene, southern Angola.

Completion of the plant will help the country to resolve the problem of supplying continuous and safe drinking water to a large part of Cunene province.

The project, which involved construction of a plant with a capacity to treat 16.3 million liters of water a day, will benefit around 250,000 people.

Abengoa has also laid 100km of pipelines that will transport the water from the River Cunene to the plant.

The works form part of a cross-border plan with neighbouring Namibia launched by the Angolan Ministry of Energy and Water to supply water to the northern part of Namibia in southern Africa.

The company is currently working on two aqueducts in Mexico and Chile, three desalination plants using reverse osmosis technology in Algeria, Ghana and Oman, and a drinking water plant in Sri Lanka.