Veolia, the global champion of sustainable desalination, set to double its opera
2025-04-23
Veolia, the global champion of sustainable desalination, set to double its operated capacity by 2030
With 18% of the world’s installed desalination capacity built with its technologies, Veolia is the leading player on the market
Veolia aims to maintain this market share with all new projects to be built by 2030, while doubling the operation & maintenance capacities
Veolia has driven major innovations on desalination market allowing 85% energy efficiency gains and 90% of desalinated water cost reduction
With tremendous progress achieved in terms of efficiency and footprint over the past 25 years, desalination became an essential part in the toolkit to face water scarcity. It has become cheaper by reducing energy intensity, more effective and increasingly scalable to meet the growing global demand, in terms of size, volume, and efficiency.
The desalination market is set to accelerate growth over the next 5 years, driven primarily by the Middle East, Pacific Asia andsome countries in Europe, with the capacity planned for award representing around 40 million m3 per day.
Already a leader in the desalination sector, with 18% of the world's installed desalination capacity built using its technologies, Veolia is set to consolidate its market leadership, while doubling its operated capacity from 1.4 million m3 per day by 2030.
Recent contract wins worldwide attest to Veolia’s strong ambitions in the desalination market, for example the Mirfa 2 & Hassyan Desalination plants in the United Arab Emirates the Cornwall Desalination plant in the United Kingdom, and the exclusive discussions for Rabat Desalination plant in Morocco.
With more than 50 years of continuous effort, Veolia has become the champion of sustainable desalination, driving major breakthroughs and innovation in the market:
-Energy consumption divided by almost 7 since 1970
-Increasingly compact and efficient units, thanks to solutions such as the Barrel™ technology and Intelligent Reverse osmosis processes integrating AI
-Minimisation of the environmental footprint of the facilities, by reducing chemicals
usage and more renewable decarbonized power supply
-Respect of the marine environment, particularly when it comes to brine management.
Veolia continues to drive innovation in this field and fueling other water technologies, such as micropollutant treatment and wastewater management, creating synergies that address multiple water-related challenges at once.
"Our global leadership and ambitions in desalination, in line with our strategic GreenUp program, demonstrate our capability to develop increasingly innovative and adaptable technological solutions to meet the needs and challenges of cities and i dustries. It is our unique positioning and through our winning formula that combines expertise, performance and environmental responsibility that allows us to have even greater ambitions today to implement effective and more affordable solutions while preserving both this vital resource and local ecosystems", says Estelle Brachlianoff, CEO of Veolia.
Veolia on desalination market
-With a constructed treatment capacity of approximately 13 million m3 of water per day at more than 2.300 sites in 108 countries, Veolia is the world leader in desalination.
-2030 ambition : maintain the market share in desalination capacity installed and double the Operation & Maintenance capacity
