Dutch Clean Tech has signed an agreement with a major Mexican private company for the realization of a sewage treatment plant. The organization – Banterra – will supply treated water to Mexican oil company PEMEX in the future, thanks to a large DCT plant. Building the plant will involve an investment of some €160 million.

In Salamanca, Guanajuato region, there have long been problems due to the limited availability of groundwater. The regional government had granted the agricultural sector the right to pump up groundwater over the next 100 years, including for irrigation. In practice, groundwater became increasingly scarce, particularly because the Mexican oil company PEMEX was extracting twice as much water from the soil as was allowed. To date, another water source has not been easy to find.

From polluted water to clean water

The arrival of Dutch Clean Tech in this region will ensure that new sources of clean water are tapped: untreated sewage water will be converted into clean water. DCT concluded an agreement with Banterra, a private company that will resell this purified sewage water to PEMEX. The clean water will come from a yet-to-be-constructed large sewage treatment plant with a capacity of 116,000 cubic meters per day. In Mexico, this is equivalent to the water consumption of about 600,000 households.

Purified resupply

In the new situation, Banterra buys large quantities of untreated water from two cities in the region, Salamanca and Irapuato. The company uses DCT technology to ensure that it can be purified and redelivered to PEMEX and other industrial companies. Again, Dutch Clean Tech provides the dual solution: the installation, including operation, maintenance, and financing.