The primary sector of Lanzarote will have during the summer of 2025 a production of additional water of 2,500 cubic meters per day produced by a portable desalination plant.
The new plant, which arrived this Wednesday at the Port of Los Mármoles in Arrecife and was later transferred to the Díaz Rijo Desalination Plant, under the supervision of the Minister of Water of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Domingo Cejas, is financed by the Government of the Canary Islands and have assured that "it has been designed with sustainable criteria by the Technological Institute of the Canary Islands" (ITC).
“We know the critical situation that the primary sector is experiencing and we have been fighting to improve the adverse conditions that our farmers and ranchers are going through. We thank the ITC and the Government of the Canary Islands for their sensitivity to an island declared in water emergency and their shared commitment to the sustainability of the countryside”, according to the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort.
The Minister of Water, Domingo Cejas, has valued “the permanent collaboration and connection between the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of Lanzarote to face one of the greatest challenges facing the island: the water emergency situation”. Cejas points out that the new desalination plant will be fully operational at the end of August “if all electrical and technical connections work”. And he assured that its operation will mean “a qualitative leap for the primary sector”.
The containerized desalination plant has been designed in a modular way in three containers, two of 40 feet, and one of 20, a ring filter and a remineralizer.
The new reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant that is installed in Lanzarote is a reference in R&D&I in the field of desalination. It has been developed within the framework of the “DESALRO 2.0” project and is suitable for covering an emergency situation with the lowest possible energy consumption on the market.
