Under the 30-year PPP contract Águas de Fortaleza is due to invest 3.1bn reais (US$632mn) to build, operate and maintain the 1,000l/s plant that will supply potable water to Cagece’s Mucuripe and Praça da Imprensa reservoirs.
Of the total, 526mn reais will be invested in construction and installing pipes, and work is expected to be concluded in the first months of 2026. The plant is designed to benefit 720,000 people.
Saudi-based Acwa Power, a global developer of power and desalination projects, a leader in energy transition and first mover into green hydrogen, said it has signed the framework agreement to outline the development of the first phase of the green hydrogen project in Egypt with a 600,000 tonnes-per-year capacity.
In 2008, Hamma Water Desalination SpA, a special project company combining 70 percent financing from GE and 30 percent from the Algerian Energy Company, was selected to design, build, own and operate the 200,000-cubic-meters-per-day (53 million gallons per day) Hamma Seawater Desalination Plant. It is a reverse osmosis (RO) seawater desalination facility that significantly alleviates water scarcity in Algiers and was the first RO desalination plant in Africa to be funded by public and private investment. GE also was awarded a 25-year contract to operate and maintain the plant.
Abu Dhabi’s Taqa, Emirates Water & Electricity Company and South Korea’s GS Inima have reached financial close on the $444m Shuweihat 4 reverse osmosis seawater desalination project
Acciona is in the box seat to build and run the critical $2.8 billion Alkimos desalination plant but there are concerns the contractor’s recent WA projects have run into problems.
Morocco already has 11 desalination stations but intends to “triple its capacities by 2030”, says Médias 24 , by adding 9 new stations to the 11 existing and 7 currently under construction. With this comprehensive project of stations capable of producing nearly 1.3 billion cubic meters of drinking and irrigation water per year, the kingdom intends to develop a local industry. The government predicts that, ultimately, around 50% of drinking water will come from the desalination of sea water, notes Le360 .
A plant capacity of 50,000 m3/day will be built on island of Djerba.
With a daily capacity of 300 m3, the new desalination plant will meet 100% of the water requirements for the Red Sea Diving Safari – Marsa Shagra complex throughout the year. The water produced by the plant will be supplied to the hotel’s guests through a distribution network.
To date, barely 500 m3 of freshwater is available per inhabitant per year in the Kingdom of Morocco, compared with 2,500 m3 in 1960 according to the United Nations (UN). The new desalination plants should improve the supply of water for irrigation and drinking water.