N.A. Water Systems is a part of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (VWS), the No. 1 Desalination company worldwide. We have experience with municipal and industrial desalination facilities worldwide. Our facilities have the capacity to treat more than 1.9 billion gallons of water per day (7.2 million cubic meters of water per day) for potable water uses, not including our experience with industrial desalination applications.
Desalination Solutions
Cost-Effective Solutions to Water Scarcity
Clean, fresh water for municipal and industrial uses is becoming scarce in many parts of the world. In coastal regions as well as arid inland locations, desalination is becoming the solution of choice to meet these growing water needs. By 2025, nearly one-third of the population of the developing world will face severe water scarcity, according to the International Water Management Institute. Technological advances in recent decades have brought into reality facilities that were previously thought to be cost-prohibitive.
Almost one quarter of the world's population lives within 40 miles of a coastline. Seawater represents 97% of the world's water and covers 71% of earth's surface. Desalination therefore presents an effective solution to the challenges of rapid population and economic growth that are leading to water shortages. New techniques are opening up possibilities for economic treatment of inland brackish groundwater as well.
Desalination Solutions for the Americas
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies has over 100 years of desalination experience. Desalination projects in the Americas are performed by N.A. Water Systems. Our desalination solutions include:
Reverse Osmosis (RO)
- Packaged systems such as Salibré (SWRO) and Balibré (BWRO)
- Custom systems
NanoFiltration (NF)
Ultra (UF) and Micro Filtration ((MF)
Zero Discharge Desalination (ZDD) - Brackish groundwater treatment solution
Thermal
- Multi Effect Distillation (MED)
- Mechanical Vapor Compression (MVC)
Hybrid Systems - Thermal and Membrane
- Conventional
- media filtration (gravity and pressurized)
- dissolved air flotation (DAF)
- clarification - Membrane
- micro filtration (MF)
- ultra filtration (UF)
Industrial Desalination Processes
Pilot testing using our mobile treatment systems enables optimization prior to full-scale installation and process guarantees as well as equipment warranties for our systems.
- OPUS® Technology - High recovery option for feed water with high concentrations of silica, organics, hardness, boron and particulates
- OPUS® II Technology - streamlined OPUS® process that utilizes ceramic membranes for pretreatment of the reverse osmosis influent
- AMDRO™ - acidic wastewater treatment for mining, phosphate fertilizer, and steelmaking operations
Contact Paul Choules, Vice President of Desalination for additional information.
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Albany House Resort in the Bahamas
Desalinated Water for Irrigation
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies was contracted to engineer a seawater reverse osmosis system for golf course irrigation including a second pass will be able to generate high quality water for the resort.