• The desalination capacity of this facility in Murcia will reach 70 hm3 per year after investment.
• The consortium will operate the plant for a four-year period, extensible for an additional year.

Sacyr Water and Ferrovial, through Ferrovial Construcción and Cadagua, will expand and operate the Aguilas desalination plant in Murcia, for a four-year period, extensible for an additional year. This project is worth €51.5 million and will turn this plant into the second largest in Spain, with a desalination capacity of 70 hm3/year.

This project, awarded by Acuamed, will increase the facility’s daily desalination capacity by 30,000 m3, so it will be able to treat up to 210,000 m3 of seawater per day. The Aguilas desalination plant will be the second largest in Spain, only behind the Torrevieja desalination plant (Alicante), whose expansion is also being delivered by a Sacyr-Ferrovial consortium. 

Both parties also delivered the design and construction of the Aguilas desalination plant, which has been in operation since 2013, with the aim of reducing the overexploitation of the aquifers in Murcia, as it provides an alternative water source for the irrigation of crops. 

In addition, this infrastructure has contributed to guaranteeing the supply of drinking water for the consumption of the local population in an area of high water stress and at risk of drought.