New Mega Inland Water Desalination Plant Comes To Texas

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New Mega Inland Water Desalination Plant Comes To Texas

The San Antonio Water System (SAWS) activated one of the largest inland water desalination plants in the United States.

Located in far southeast Bexar County, the H2Oaks plant will produce 12m gallons of water every day – serving over 50,000 homes.

SAWS Chairman Berto Guerra marked the event as a huge step forward for San Antonio saying “a city that doesn’t have water, is a city without a future,”

This plant will join SAWS innovative storage and recovery system, which is located on the same property, and, soon, the water from the massive Vista Ridge Pipeline, which will pump in water from an aquifer in Burleson County west of Bryan.

The water comes from an aquifer 1500 feet below the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer and the plant will use reverse osmosis to produce drinking water from the moderately saline .

The first phase project cost a reported $149m and was originally set to launch in October 2016.

The total budget for this three-phase project is $441m. and expects to scale up by 66% with phase two in 2021. It will be completed in 2026 where it will support 100,000 households.

There is an excellent, detailed write up about the project stretching back to its inception in 2000 here: http://www.edwardsaquifer.net/desalination.html

Originally posted on: Future Desalination

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