In October 2015, Water. Desalination + reuse (Faversham House) reported that a consortium headed by the Spanish arm of Veolia Water Technologies had finished the Campo Dalías reverse osmosis plant in Almería. Rated at 97,200 m³/day and expandable to 129,600 m³/day, it cost €130 million (US$143 million) and was set to serve about 300,000 residents and irrigate 8,000 hectares. Spain's farm, food and environment ministry backed it through state water company Acuamed. The consortium took on 15 years of operation, and a second RO pass cut boron below 0.5 mg/l.
The report showed Spain using large seawater plants to relieve overdrawn aquifers in farming areas, with a single facility meant to serve both drinking water and irrigation.