DeepVerge PLC subsidiary Modern Water announced new orders worth £2.1mln to treat technically challenging wastewater for chemical plants in India and provide desalinisation services in water-starved North Africa, using the company's water recovery technology All Membrane Brine Concentration (AMBC).
The orders are expected to be completed in the current financial year and in 2023.
The projects will be undertaken with Ion Exchange (India) Ltd, which has specialist divisions focused on water engineering in Asia, and recently appointed partner Al Amaq Holding Company, an engineering firm focused on the North African market.
Gerard Brandon, DeepVerge chief executive, commented: "In 2017, the first AMBC technology was installed in India followed by a slow introduction into China, South Asia and the Middle East before our move into North Africa.
“Collaborating with local and regional engineering partners has increasingly highlighted the value of our AMBC water recovery technology in high water stressed territories.
“The results, over a three-year period, have led to a recent increase in demand that contributed to more than doubling Modern Water revenues in 2021 and improved the size of the AMBC order book for 2022 and 2023."
Just 3% of the world's water is fresh water and two-thirds of that is tucked away in frozen glaciers or otherwise unavailable for use. Meanwhile, approximately 1.1bn people worldwide lack access to water, with 2.7bn finding water scarce for at least one month a year.
Its shares jumped 2.7% to 15.7p on the news.