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Article: Chile : MOP analyzes subsidies to promote desalination for irrigation.
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- November 5, 2009
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Byline: pinto03
Chile's public works ministry (MOP) is working with a number of consultants to determine subsidies for seawater desalination concession projects in the north of the country, an official from the ministry's concessions division told BNamericas.
While water demand for human consumption and mining is sufficient to make these plants financially feasible, facilities built to provide water for agriculture will have to be handled differently, the official said.
Desalination plants for irrigation would be carried out in areas where there is currently little or no agricultural activity. These projects would be supported by state ...