Mansour bin Zayed inaugurates first seawater desalination plant using reverse osmosis technology in Umm Al Quwain

Mansour bin Zayed inaugurates first seawater desalination plant using reverse osmosis technology in Umm Al Quwain

His Highness 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 Qaiwain. This plant stands as one of the largest seawater desalination projects using SWRO technology in the world.
With a capacity of 150 million gallons of desalinated water per day, the plant operates according to the independent producer system.
The ceremony was attended by Suhail bin Mohammed Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Infrastructure and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Etihad Water and Electricity, along with Yousef Ahmed Al Ali, CEO of the company, and several senior officials.
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.
This huge project was a collaboration between Etihad Water and Electricity, Mubadala, and Saudi