Field Notes
SPAIN: Bluewater Bio International has successfully installed its first HYBACS wastewater treatment reference plant in Spain. It's developing the project with Aqualia Gestón Integral del Agua S.A., a leading Spanish water company, and a subsidiary of multinational utility company Grupo FCC. The project is supported by a grant of nearly €90,000 to Aqualia Infraestructuras, an engineering subsidiary, from the Spanish Environment Ministry.
BURKINA FASO: A US$80 million International Development Association grant for the Urban Water Sector Project was approved by the World Bank. A follow-on to a project to supply water to the city of Ouagadougou from the Ziga dam (funded by the IDA and 10 other donors), it's to support improvement and expansion of water and wastewater services in the cities of Bobo-Dioulasso, Dédougou, Koudougou, and Ouagadougou.
SPAIN: Flowserve received three orders for €2.2 million in energy recovery devices for SWRO desalination projects in Spain, including the Campo de Dalais project, which will utilize its CALDER Dual Work Exchanger Energy Recovery (DWEER) units. The other two orders are for energy recovery turbines and a retrofit of an existing DWEER installation. The projects represent over 100,000 m³/d of daily capacity.
TUNISIA: The Government of Tunisia signed a World Bank loan for the equivalent of US$30.6 million to support $163 million in equivalent strategic investments in the water sector. The project is jointly financed by the African Development Bank and French Development Agency, including loans ($122 million), matching funds by the Tunisian government ($33 million) and various grants (about $7 million).
EIB loans aid water infrastructure in Czech Republic, Romania, RussiaThe European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending CZK 3 billion (some €107 million) to finance the improvement and expansion of drinking water supply and the waste water infrastructure for 110,000 people in a number of small and medium municipalities in the Czech Republic.
EIB also is lending €25m for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure in Romania, including eight conurbations in Cluge and Sãlaj Counties. Leveraging a €196m effort, the first direct loan to Compania de Apa Somes SA will help it meet new EU regulations.
And it's lending €17.5m – on top of two loans for €45m – to St. Petersburg, Russia's Vodokanal to finance a wastewater tunnel and WWTP nutrient removal to cut pollution in the Baltic Sea.