The Water MBA

The Water MBA

The heart of desalination

If you want to operate on your heart, you’d go to the best surgeon. Right?

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Ramon Rubio de Castro
May 12, 2026
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In desalination and reuse, the heart is basically a combination of a steel frame + pressure vessel + membranes inside.

So you want a good membrane. Inside a reliable pressure vessel. And nicely supported by a friendly steel frame.

(I know later come the pumps, the pipe interconnections, valves, energy recovery devices — it all counts...)

But today we talk about:

  1. The strategy for how to deploy the heart into our project.

  2. Who are the surgeons in the market?

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