Thames Gateway Water Treatment Works
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The Thames Gateway Water Treatment Works or Beckton Desalination Plant is a desalination plant in Beckton, London, adjacent to Beckton Sewage Treatment Works.[1] The plant takes brackish water from the River Thames and converts it into drinkable water through a reverse osmosis process. The first of its kind in the UK, it was built for Thames Water by a consortium of Interserve, Atkins Water and Acciona Agua.[2] It was opened by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on 2 June 2010.[3] It was planned to provide up to 150 million litres of drinking water each day – enough for 900,000 Londoners.[4][5][6][7] – but by 2023 had only operated on three occasions, and at two-thirds of its planned capacity.
Desalination plant | |
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Daily capacity | 100 megalitres |
Cost | £250 million |
Energy usage | 14 MW |
Technology | Reverse osmosis |
Completion date | 2 June 2010 (2010-06-02) |