When wells on his Ibiza property ran dry, Hashem Arouzi experienced Europe’s water crisis first hand.
The British entrepreneur set about to find a solution – not only for himself, but for the thousands of island-dwellers whose water supplies are dwindling due to drought, over-extraction and seawater intrusion.
“In Ibiza alone, there are more than 15,000 properties that are not connected to the water supply, and need to secure their own water,” says Arouzi. “The wells that have previously supplied them are running dry.”
Water deliveries by truck offer temporary reprieve but now even the reservoirs that supply them are running dry.
Desalination plants are increasingly coming to the rescue of mains-connected properties but off-grid homes are being left behind.
