CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
Over 2,000 million people in the world live without access to a basic drinking water service, and 3,6 billionhave no access to a basic sanitation service, resulting in avoidable deaths, chronic disease, fewer hours of education and low productivity.
ACCIONA has positioned itself as a key player in the water treatment sector. Its innovative management seeks to resolve the challenges with respect to the shortage of water resources.
CLIMATE ACTION
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
The generation and use of energy accounts for 35 % of total greenhouse gas emissions in the world. This activity is the largest contributor to global warming. Investment in renewable energy, energy efficiency and other low-carbon technologies will continue to be essential to meet the emerging needs of humanity and to minimize their negative impact on the environment.
ACCIONA considers the fight against climate change and its effects to be a strategic priority. The company works to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in order to contribute to the progress of society and respond to the main challenges of sustainable development in the areas of infrastructure, water and energy, leading the transition to a low-carbon economy.
The project will increase the energy efficiency of the desalination process, will promote the generation of renewable energy from brine and will transform it into chemicals to be employed in the desalination process itself.
Within the framework of the project, a semi-industrial pilot unit for demonstration will be designed and built that will be operated in the desalination plant facilities of San Pedro del Pinatar-II (Murcia, Spain), working under representative full-scale conditions, and thus facilitating its further implementation on a larger scale.
LIFE INDESAL, co-financed by the LIFE Programme of the European Commission, is coordinated by ACCIONA, Water business, and has the collaboration of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of the University of Cantabria (Spain), with long history in energy and material recovery from liquid and gaseous residual effluents; APRIA Systems, a spin-off from the University of Cantabria with experience in advanced separation technologies for the treatment and recovery of different streams; REDstack BV, a Dutch company focused on developing and commercialising electro-membrane stacks and processes for Reverse Electrodialysis, Electrodialysis and related applications; and REVOLVE, a Belgian entity with extensive experience in communication within the water sector.
LIFE INDESAL (LIFE21-ENV-ES-101074444) is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.