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Construction and management of the facility during a 20-year period contributes 75 million euros to the Company’s portfolio Aqualia starts work on the Guaymas desalination plant to resolve the scarcity of drinking water in the State of Sonora Aqualia started work on the Guaymas desalination plant in the State of So- nora. The project awarded includes the design, fittings, construction and commissioning as well as operation and maintenance for a total period of 20 years. The project represents a to- tal portfolio of about 75 million euros. The governor of the Mexican state of Sonora, Claudia Pavlovich Arella- no, presided over the ceremony to begin construction of the new Em- palme-Guaymas desalination plant, which will involve an investment of almost 32 million euros. This desalination plant will try to alle- viate the problem of water shortage in the state of Sonora and will ser- ve nearly 100,000 inhabitants of the municipalities of Guaymas and Em- palme, localities located in the Gulf of California, in the state of Sonora, Mexico. The new infrastructure, once in ser- vice, will produce up to 18,000 cubic meters per day. The plant will have a system of deep seawater wells, filtra- tion and microfiltration, reverse osmo- sis, remineralization and impulsion to the distribution network. MEXICO Claudia Pavlovich Arellano, governor of the Mexican state of Sonora, presided over the ceremony to begin construction of the new Empalme-Guaymas desalination plant. C O M M U N I T I E S 48 C O M M U N I T I E S