Rubicon Water Expands Its Water Management Technology From Chile to Other Latin American Countries By Jorge Ramírez Contreras
Rodrigo Romero Jara, the manager of the North Biobío Canal Association in Chile, operates a Rubicon gate.
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Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Spain, and the United States. Its main clients are large irrigation districts and water management organizations. Its entry into Latin America began a decade ago, and its main office is located in Santiago, Chile. From there, it has started to expand throughout Latin America, and today, it also has offices in Costa Rica and Argentina. Rubicon Latin America has 40 staff members, including engineers; specialists in electronics, telecommunications, and control systems; and field technicians who continually advise its clients. Álvaro Luna Maureira, the general manager of Rubicon Water Latin America, says that “the modernization of irrigation canals using Rubicon technology improves the efficiency of the management of water resources, increasing productivity in a sustainable manner. Our company designs, manufactures, and installs solutions that accord with the needs of each client, using components and technology created especially for their goals and tested in a large irrigationleadermagazine.com
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he technical level we have reached is formidable. The automated management of water resources is no longer optional—it is required—and thanks to our partnership with Rubicon Water, we are at the forefront of progress in this area.” These are the words of Fernando Rueda, the president of the Ñuble River Joint Board of Control, a water users’ organization located in the south-central area of Chile that began to implement Rubicon technology in 2017 and continues to add water solutions developed by the business today. Rubicon specializes in the creation of technology to improve the management of water in open-canal irrigation networks. The company’s solutions consist of automated control gates with components that include integrated flow meters, operating software, and photovoltaic energy, all of which interact with advanced remote control engineering. The company, originally from Australia, is active in a variety of countries, including Australia, Chile, China, India, Italy,
