Microplastics are emerging as a significant challenge to desalination and water reuse technologies. While advanced filtration systems like reverse osmosis offer solutions, reducing plastic pollution at its source is essential to safeguard water resources.
Water Reuse
Almar Water Solutions takes center stage at IDRA World Congress 2024, announcing Carlos Cosín as the newly elected First Vice President of IDRA for the 2024-2026 term. The company also reinforces its leadership in sustainable water solutions as a Thematic Session Sponsor, driving innovation in desalination, water reuse, and water security worldwide.
The use of reclaimed water for wildfires is one of the most promising and beneficial applications of this resource. In fire-prone areas, especially during dry seasons, access to large quantities of water is essential to effectively control and extinguish fires.
Through well-designed and efficiently implemented regulatory frameworks, we can protect our water resources, ensure their equitable and sustainable use, and guarantee that all human beings have access to drinking water and sanitation. In this regard, to face the challenges of the present and future, water management must be a priority on political agendas at the local, national, and global levels.
In order to achieve sustainable development, it is crucial to adopt the circular economy as an alternative economic model to the current one, where usage replaces consumption. Although it seems more focused on material management, the water sector cannot be left out of this strategy.
Almar Water Solutions sponsored the biennial congress of the Latin American Association of Desalination and Water Reuse (ALADYR) in Santiago de Chile last week.
At both the municipal and industrial levels, the present and future water infrastructures must rely on clean technologies to move forward with Sustainable Development Goals 6 and 14.
The entry into force on 26 June 2023 of Regulation 2020/741 is a tool to help protect biodiversity, achieve zero pollution, adapt to climate change, and ensure human and animal health protection.
Carlos Cosín, CEO, Almar Water Solutions and Former President, International Desalination Association (IDA) has successfully moderated the United Nations General Assembly Water Conference Side Event: Incorporating Non-Conventional Water Resources into Integrated Water Resources Management. The event was organized by the IDA and the Spanish Minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge and took place at the Instituto Cervantes in New York, USA.
Despite the progress over the past twenty years, sanitation is still one of the Sustainable Development Goals that is furthest out of reach. For this reason, on November 19, Almar Water Solutions mobilizes to make the invisible visible.