Permanent Desalination Plant Tender

Scope The City of Cape Town plans to build a permanent desalination plant capable of producing 50-million litres of water per day by 2026. The project will cost R1.8-billion.The City said that its Water Strategy is already in action as 15-million litres of groundwater is added to the water supply daily via the Table Mountain Group Aquifer. The strategy also includes other projects like the desalination plant alien vegetation clearing the augmentation of the Berg River and water reuse.The Strandfontein desalination plant provided 3.8 billion litres of water over a period of two years before it was decommissioned in June 2020. At the time the City said that it gained valuable knowledge through hands-on experience of this alternative water technology.City will incorporate this experience into the planning and operation of the larger permanent desalination plant which is provisionally programmed to start producing water by the end of 2026.The desalination project is one of the measures laid out in the Citys Water Strategy that was developed in the context of the three-year Day Zero drought that Cape Town experienced between 2015 and 2017.The City claims the strategy which is informed by lessons learnt in the past is a road map towards a future in which there will be sufficient water for all.