Desalination is crucial for coastal areas facing water scarcity, but it needs sustainable innovations. This webinar will explore its evolution, renewable energy integration, and strategies for a cleaner future.
- circular economy | clean technology | environmental impact | innovation | renewable resources
- Thursday 12 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:30 (CEST)
- Online only
- Live streaming available
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- Thursday 12 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:30 (CEST)
- Where
- Online only
- Livestream
- Starts on Thursday 12 June 2025, 11:00 (CEST)
- Languages
- Spanish
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Description
The implementation of more sustainable and circular management strategies in the industrial water sector is especially urgent in regions facing high water stress. Water scarcity, compounded by climate change, requires increasingly efficient, emission-free management and technological solutions.
In this context, seawater desalination is crucial for ensuring water supply in island environments and areas with water shortages. The Canary Islands have been a leader in desalination development, even pioneering the application of circular economy concepts in this process. However, key challenges remain, such as reducing the carbon footprint, improving energy efficiency, integrating the water-energy nexus, minimising chemical use, reusing components, and mitigating the environmental impact of brine discharge into the sea.
This webinar aims to analyse the role of desalination within the blue economy, which is essential in certain regions, and its evolution toward a more sustainable, competitive, and circular model. Through presentations and practical case studies, we will explore innovative solutions for integrating renewable energy, particularly wave energy, improving energy efficiency, reducing carbon footprints, and minimising the environmental impact of desalination processes.
The event will foster dialogue and create a space for exchanging experiences, practical solutions, and successful cases in sustainable desalination.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Juan A. de la Fuente, Water Department Technician, ITC
- Beatriz del Río, Associate Professor, ULPGC
- Tomas B. Johannessen, Chief Technology Officer, Ocean Oasis
- Federico León Zerpa, Associate Professor, ULPGC
