Italian construction and civil engineering firm Ercole Marelli Impianti Tecnologici (EMIT) has won a tender for work on a drinking water treatment plant in Ișalnița, near Craiova. The contract is worth nearly EUR 8.2 million at the current exchange rate and details of the contract were published on the EU's Tenders Electronic Daily (TED).

The plant has a capacity of 3,600 cubic meters of water per-hour, or 86,400 m³ a day, according to EMIT. The local public water utility Apa Oltenia received six bids in the tender and the project will be EU co-financed. The contract also includes the design work and staff training responsibilities, according to industry news service Water World.

The Ișalnița facility (in picture) treats drinking water for Dolj County in South-West Romania, bordered by Bulgaria and The Danube to the south and not far from Serbia to the east.

EMIT Group operates in Italy and worldwide, specializing in the water and waste sectors and energy production from renewable sources. Founded some 70 years ago as a water supply and sewage civil engineering firm, EMIT has expanded more recently into the environmental protection and pollution control industries.

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