UMM AL QUWAIN: Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Chairman of the Presidential Court, has officially inaugurated the “NAQA’A” Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant in the Emirate of Umm Al Quwain. This plant stands as one of the largest seawater desalination projects using SWRO technology in the world.
This facility, which can generate 150 million gallons of desalinated water a day, uses the independent producer approach.
Suhail bin Mohammed Al Mazrouei, the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Etihad Water and Electricity, as well as a number of other high-ranking officials were present at the ceremony.
Sheikh Mansour listened to a detailed explanation from the company’s CEO and the project team about the station’s mechanism and its implementation stages. The first phase, initiated during the second half of 2021, concluded with the station operating experimentally at a daily production capacity of 50 million gallons. The second phase was completed, and the station began operating with its full production capacity of 150 million gallons per day by the end of 2022.
Etihad Water and Electricity, Mubadala, and ACWA Power, Saudi Arabia’s utility developer, worked together on this massive project.
“We are proud of the completion of ‘NAQA’A, an embodiment of the UAE’s approach and the vision of its leadership in ensuring sustainable water resources for future generations,” said Sheikh Mansour.