From Marseille, cryo-separation is attracting the attention of territories searching for sustainable answers to water scarcity. Selected by the Saudi Arabia Booster Program, Seawards is preparing to continue on-the-ground discussions to assess the conditions for a responsible deployment.
At Saumaty, the prototype has begun to “speak” with the sea. Yet this step – rooted in the reality of Marseille – prepares the next one: international deployment.
Because the challenges we face here – water stress, energy sobriety, the protection of marine ecosystems – are the same in many regions of the world.
Cryo-separation does not claim to solve everything. It offers something different: a way to produce fresh water without harming the sea, designed for territories in need of a clean, compact and tightly controlled solution.
The Booster KSA Program: a deepening dialogue
In 2024, Seawards was selected for the Booster Grow Global Saudi Arabia Program. Since then, several rounds of exchanges, assessments and meetings have allowed us to confront our technology with the Kingdom’s water needs.
The goal was not to “pitch” a solution, but to understand the realities of a country where water is a matter of daily survival, and where the hydric transition is actively seeking alternatives more sober than conventional desalination.
Today, this dialogue is entering a new phase. We are preparing to return to Saudi Arabia.
The objective is clear: deepening the work already underway, assessing how our technology can be adapted, and identifying where a cryo-separation unit could create value – without disrupting local marine balances.
The Booster Program allows us to move forward methodically: structured meetings, a precise understanding of water uses, and strong bridges with the country’s industrial and hydraulic stakeholders.
No premature promises. Only a shared direction: making water accessible without worsening ecological pressure.
A global movement taking shape
Beyond the Middle East, Seawards is opening conversations in several regions of the world facing the same tensions: water availability, rising energy costs, and the environmental impact of current technologies.
These exchanges emerge naturally – through meetings, needs expressed on the ground, and the first reactions to the sobriety of our process.
A movement still young, but promising: the growing demand for clean desalination.
From Marseille to the world: one guiding principle
It is this principle that guides our work on the prototype in Marseille.
It is this principle that shapes our discussions in Saudi Arabia.
And it is this principle that steers the evolution of our modules toward agile, replicable units adapted to the climatic and energy realities of each territory.
Seawards’ technology was born here, on the edge of a fragile sea.
It is now preparing to travel—with humility, with rigor, and with the ambition to contribute to a global hydric transition that does not sacrifice living ecosystems.
