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Water Desalination in Fuerteventura.
Fuerteventura has over 40 years obtaining potable water from
seawater.
Until the mid-twentieth century, Fuerteventura covering their
water from precipitation in autumn and winter, and when these
reserves are exhausted, they resorted to the Spanish Army
tankers bringing the precious liquid from the island of Gran
Canaria
 Because
of this dependency, it opens in 1970 when the first water
treatment plant in Puerto del Rosario, due to the request of the
Cabildo of Fuerteventura (the President was Don Guillermo
Sanchez Velasquez), who claim that the Madrid government
installation of the plant water treatment.
This first plant, the type multistage flash distillation, had a
daily production of 2,000 m3. In the beginning the plant was
operating only a few days per month, covering the needs of the
people of Puerto del Rosario, but when it began to build a
distribution network to the 2 major population centers of the
island (Great Tarajal and Corralejo), the plant was operating at
full capacity.
It is in 1973 when creating a new desalination plant seawater
(type Understanding Vapor), whose ownership is the Cabildo of
Fuerteventura, which in later years suffered various extensions
to which increased production by more than 4,000 m3 days.
In 1980 the first desalination Factory is built in Great Tarajal
with a capacity of 250 m3 per day since the transmission from
Puerto del Rosario to Great Tarajal had many faults
 And
in 1995 when installed in Puerto del Rosario the first Reverse
Osmosis Desalination Plants, more effective and economical in
producing potable water from seawater.
In 1993 built the first Reverse Osmosis Desalination in
Corralejo, with a production of 1,500 m3 per day.
After a series of extensions and improvements of facilities at
Desalination Plant Puerto del Rosario, Great Tarajal, Corralejo,
and the construction of a desalination plant in Morro Jable, the
CONSORTIUM WATER SUPPLY FUERTEVENTURA (CAAF), (Marketing and
Production Water Distribution, under the Cabildo of
Fuerteventura), produces a total of 32,000 m3 per day,
representing 50% of current production of all stations Seawater
Desalination installed on the island of Fuerteventura
Station Seawater Desalination Plant is the largest which is
located in Puerto del Rosario, whose daily capacity is 21,500
m3. Desalination is followed by Antigua (Antigua Waters), whose
production is 4,800 m3 per day.
Besides Major Desalination Stations Consortium, several hotels,
leisure centers and housing estates that have their own
Desalination Station, the most important being:
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Anjoca Group (Elba Hotels and Fuerteventura Golf Club), with
an output of 3,000 m3 per day
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Salinas de Antigua. Golf course and residential community.
3,000 m3 / day
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Vinamar: Golf courses and hotels in Jandia. 3.600 m3/day
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Fuertcan: Hotels in Costa calm. 5,000 m3/day
This
modern production facilities and distribution of water
completely covers all the needs of agriculture, livestock and
industry, as the supply to households, but keep in mind that in
Fuerteventura, drinking water must be bottled
CAAF.
Respect for the Environment
 CAAF
(WATER SUPPLY FUERTEVENTURA CONSORTIUM), in the mind as much as
possible to mitigate the high impact it has on the cost of m3 of
water produced the energy chapter, promoted in the year 1990 a
10.26 MW wind farm power , which was realized in the year 1994.
The share of this wind farm promoted by the CAAF is 60%, leaving
the remaining 40% held by Unelco.
This park has led to the support in recent years the price of
water, and allowed to favor social water consumption (which is
the largest amount) extending the first step of the rates (the
cheapest) to a bimonthly consumption, higher.
The park is located in Canada del Rio at a place called the
Horse and the West, with 45 units of wind turbines built by
MADE, belonging to Endesa, 18 of which you can generate an
output of 300 Kw / h while the remaining 27 may generate 180 Kw
/ h.
The implementation of this park as to the arrangement of the
machines in the field, has been carried out according to two
different types of conditions
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Geographical, depending on the availability
of space in the area
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Wind, depending on the prevailing winds and
the shadow effect from the turbines
The turbines are arranged in three rows of
fifteen, twenty and ten, arranged in
parallel and separated by distances of 300m,
with an orientation perpendicular to the
direction of prevailing wind, and
separations between machines of 30 m.
This separation between the turbines, visual
impact makes the park is very attenuated.
Wind power being generated by the park in
1994 and 2001, has covered at least 63% of
the energy needs of CAAF, which has been a
very significant figure
And
in late November 2009, the Water Supply Consortium of
Fuerteventura (CAAF), a public body chaired by Mario Cabrera,
finished installing a wind farm with 2 turbines right next to
the desalination plant that the CAAF has in Corralejo.
The installation of wind turbines was made taking into account
all environmental conditions. These two structures 45 meters
high and 52 meter rotor diameter blades.
The new wind farm shall enter into grid connection from the
month of December and will generate about 1.5 MW of electricity
from wind power to date, thanks to the contribution of 0.8 MW
each of the two new wind turbines. The CAAF plant can produce
daily some 4,300 m3 of desalinated water, with which supplies
much of the north of Fuerteventura. "For your average production
requires a consumption of 0.8 MW of electricity daily. Thus, the
new wind farm will add to the power supply up to twice the
average consumption demands the desalination plant,"
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