FuturEnviro | Noviembre/Diciembre November/December 2020 www.futurenviro.es 45 the tests and commission the plant remotely, thus reducing the number of personnel onsite to a minimum. The technology enabled the commissioning of the plant to be completed on schedule, despite the restrictions on mobility caused by the pandemic. The team in Madrid controlled the first stage of this process from the CECOA (ACCIONA’sWater Control Center). A KEY PROJECT IN SAUDI ARABIA Saudi Arabia, a country with a population of around 33.4 million, is the third biggest consumer of water per capita in the world, after the United States and Canada. The country has implemented a series of measures to rationalize water consumption as part of its Vision 2030 program, with the aim of reducing consumption by 24% in 2021 and by as much as 43% by the end of the decade. According to ACCIONA’s latest Sustainability Report, total production of desalinated water in the Middle East region will be 13 times higher in 2040 than in 2014. In a region with serious water shortages, the demand for desalinated water is growing in response to climate change and population growth. ACCIONA is a worldwide leader in desalination through reverse osmosis technology, which emits 6.5 times fewer greenhouse gases than conventional thermal desalination processes. Desaladora de Al Khobar I en Arabia Saudí | Al Khobar I Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant in Saudi Arabia
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