+1 Desalination Plant in Texas
Where: Alice, TX
Why is Alice, TX building a desalination plant?
- Alice wants to stop buying water from Corpus Christi
- This brackish groundwater desalination plant is estimated to deliver more affordable water
Is there a private entity involved? Yes
How is this arrangement structured?
- Alice will pay Seven Seas Water Corp. about $2.20 per 1,000 gallons of water over a 15-year period
- Seven Seas Water will finance, design, build, own, operate and maintain a brackish water reverse osmosis plant on city owned land
- Alice is expected to use 3 million gallons of water a day, translating to Alice paying $12 million to Seven Seas Water over 15-years
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