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Luis: ACCIONA is leveraging technology on water treatment and distribution around the world, taking water from the sea and converting it into clean water.
Luis: It's sweet. It's good. Yeah. It's good.
Luis: Today we're at their innovation centre here in Barcelona, to see how all this process works.
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Luis: So, Jorge this is amazing. Where are we? What is this?
Jorge: We are in the water innovation technology centre of ACCIONA. In particular, this is our research and development labs. We are developing new projects on desalination, seawater desalination.
Luis: And what is exactly, desalination?
Jorge: The concept is very simple. We take the salts from the seawater. The process we use is reverse osmosis desalination.
Text: ACCIONA has built more than 450 drinking water treatment plants which supply water to more than 100 million people. Source: ACCIONA, 2025
Luis: So Jorge, we are in a pilot plant. What are we seeing here? What is this?
Jorge: So, this is the core of the reverse osmosis technology, which is the spiral wound element. And inside we have the membrane, reverse osmosis membrane. So the water, the seawater comes this direction which pump it this direction.
Luis: Right, so the salt goes out that way, right? We have that the clean water on the other.
Jorge: Yes.
Text: Each of ACCIONA’s desalination plants uses tens of thousands of reverse osmosis membranes to produce clean drinking water. Source: ACCIONA, 2025
Jorge: So the last stage is to close the tube. And, finally, we take this seawater from one of the yellow tanks. It goes into the pressure vessel, and in the back we collect the brine or the concentrate, and in front of the central tube, we collect the permeate. The drinking water.
Luis: The clean water.
Jorge: Yeah.
Luis: So Jorge, how much does one of these actually will produce of clean water?
Jorge: This element produces, more or less, 2,000 litres per hour. But in a big plant we can produce water for 500,000 people or 1 million people.
Luis: Wow.
Jorge: You want to try this water?
Luis: Absolutely. I'd love to. Actually, I'm thirsty after seeing all the process.
Jorge: So this is the end of the process – clean water.
Luis: Jorge, what’s the vision for the future of ACCIONA?
Jorge: The vision is very simple. To provide clean water to the people of the world.
Luis: It's an amazing one.
Luis: Cheers!
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Luis: ACCIONA is leveraging technology on water treatment and distribution around the world.
Text: ACCIONA has built more than 100 desalination plants which produce clean drinking water for 35 million people. Source: ACCIONA 2025
Luis: How much does one of these produce of clean water?
Louis::This element produces 2,000 litres per hour. In a big plant, we can produce water for 500,000 or 1 million people.
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Text: We are investing our clients’ money in companies like ACCIONA, as they develop innovative processes to produce clean drinking water for 35 million people.
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