TRENDS Industrial and the Sustainable Minerals Institute International Center of Excellence Chile joined to build an optimization supply model for the use of desalinated water in the Atacama Region of Chile. The agreement allows both parties to share knowledge and information to build the model, which will be available for regional authorities, companies and other key stakeholders.
Both parties have been researching opportunities to develop multiuser water supply systems with shared infrastructure.
Leadership at TRENDS Industrial said the model would be for a system allowing users to lower costs and minimize impacts. “Economies of scale are taken advantage of, reducing the impact on the territory and improving efficiencies, as we have been seeing in large-scale mining projects in Chile, which have chosen a collaborative approach,” David Mulligan, CEO, TRENDS Industrial, said.
