For the water desalination, the plant will use a combination of two different desalination technologies.
Analysts say the system is highly automated, thus reducing maintenance, and uses far less energy than conventional desalination technologies.
Whether or not pressures for large-scale water exports continues to increase depends mostly on future advances in desalination technology.
Israel also agreed to help Jordan use desalination technology in order to find additional water.
Compared to existing sources, desalination is considered to be expensive, but research is underway to develop more effective desalination technology.
For the water desalination, the Fujairah plant uses a combination of two different desalination technologies.
The Water Authority partly attributes the improvement to the expansion of desalination technology as a water source.
Mechanical vapor compression, a desalination technology by distillation.
The desalination technology is not sophisticated.
The plant will integrate renewable energy and desalination technologies to create environmentally-friendly electricity and water.