After months of good talks and investing in stakeholder trust, the realization of Dutch Clean Tech’s sewage purification projects in Mexico is moving forward. Signatures have been placed under a letter of intent for the construction of plants in three cities in the region around Cancun. We are now really getting down to work!

In the Quintana Roo district around Cancun, on the Caribbean Sea, DCT has the green light to develop sewage treatment plants. The plants are of great importance to three cities in the area. For agricultural irrigation, but also for further tourism development and nature conservation.

Water infrastructure leaves much to be desired

Cancun receives some 20 million tourists every year. The infrastructure is fine, with a modern airport, good roads and many golf resorts, marinas, hotels, restaurants and shops. The water infrastructure, on the other hand, leaves much to be desired. All hotels are obliged to treat their wastewater, but most do so as cheaply and basically as possible. Many municipalities also have no or insufficient sewage treatment plants.

Letter of intent: installations in three cities

Dutch Clean Tech is going to change this. On June 1, 2023, DCT signed a letter of intent with the Minister of Ecology and Environment, Ms. Josefina Huguette Fernandez Gomez, of the state of Quintana Roo, to start building wastewater treatment plants in three municipalities. They are the municipalities of Bacalar (15,000 inhabitants), Carrillo Puerto (30,000 inhabitants) and Punta Alen (<1000 inhabitants). Punta Alen is located in the Sian Kaʼan Biosphere Reserve, a unique nature reserve and UNESCO Heritage Site. This area is home to panthers, pumas, monkeys, crocodiles, unusual birds, iguanas, and much more.

The procedures for the construction of the three sewage plants will start soon. It involves a total investment of just under €20 million, financed by investors buying bonds from the Dutch Clean Tech Water Fund.

Mexico embraces the Dutch Clean Tech approach to clean water. We can report breakthroughs in several regions, with important agreements signed.

The signatures have been placed. In the photo, from left to right: Jasper Sluijmers (COO DCT), Sander Pielkenrood (CEO DCT), Josefina Huguette Fernandez Gomez, Minister of Ecology and Environment. Next to them, a local member of parliament, the prosecutor for environmental matters and on the far right, Oscar Rossbach, the director of Dutch Clean Tech Mexico.