The work and the technique: Jebel Ali M desalination plant, United Arab Emirates

The Jebel Ali M plant is among the icons of the desalination sectors. 

Works to build it were awarded to Fisia Italimpianti, a Webuild Group company.

The plant is composed of eight desalination units, among the largest in the world, capable of producing each almost 80,000 m³ of water per day for an overall 2.2 billion of litres of drinking water per day.

Seawater is taken from the Gulf through huge intakes. It then goes through a thermal process called Multi Stage Flash Desalination to remove the salt; once the latter is removed and the water is made drinkable, it is then supplied for daily and public use, and for industrial and for sanitary ones.