Technology and solutions provider NuWater is in the process of finalising its first large-scale municipal contract using a completely “Modular & Mobile” plant to provide additional water treatment capacity at an existing facility on a multi-year build, own and operate basis.

NuWater is probably best known in South Africa for its Modular & Mobile water treatment and desalination solutions provided to the mining sector.

However, as municipal water treatment infrastructure comes under increasing strain following years of under-investment, NuWater’s solutions are gaining significant interest from municipalities due to their rapid deployment capability and technical and commercial flexibility.

NuWater have pioneered large-scale Modular & Mobile water treatment and desalination plants and the company has proven the performance, reliability and cost-effectiveness of its plants over a number of years with  demanding customers in the mining sector.

It has long been imminent that the rapidly deployable nature of NuWater’s plants, and the flexibility they provide, would become increasingly attractive to the municipal water treatment sector.

It was however important that the company first demonstrated the effectiveness of both the technology, as well as its build, own and operate service model, in the private sector in order to provide the necessary assurances to more conservative and risk averse public sector customers.

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