The Spanish company will also be responsible for the management and maintenance of the plant once it is operational. All within the framework of a contract valued at 800 million euros, which shows the scale of the project, as well as the data relating to the capacity, which speaks of 548,000 cubic meters of water per day, as the ‘reported by various media such as La Información and Andalucía Información.
“The first phase will be operational in June 2025, injecting 50,000 m3 per day into the network,” Thiam said, adding that the project’s social aspect, supporting local professionals in fisheries and agriculture sectors as part of the corporate social responsibility initiatives associated with the desalination project.
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The project aims to ensure a sustainable supply of drinking water for Greater Casablanca and the regions of Berrechid, Settat, and El Jadida, while alleviating pressure on water resources in the Oum Er-Rbia basin. The plant, spread over 50 hectares, will have a treatment capacity of 200 million m³ per year, expandable to 300 million per year by 2030, including 250 million dedicated to drinking water and 50 million to irrigation.
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.
The EIB is providing the finance as part of the Global Gateway, a European strategy to stimulate smart, clean and secure links in the digital, energy and transport sectors, and to strengthen health, education and research systems worldwide. The loan will be granted through its new 25-year development finance subsidiary EIB Global.
With a capacity of 300 million cubic meters and a huge financial package of 1.1 billion US dollars, this project is the result of cooperation between several sectors: energy, water and the environment.
The World Bank predicts that by 2030, the wider Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region will fall below the absolute water scarcity threshold of 500 cubic metres per person per year.
The European Investment Bank has agreed to invest more than $86,5 million in Djibouti through water desalination and wastewater treatment.
Solar-powered desalination technology company GivePower is set to receive Sh410.5 million in funding from American tech firm ServiceNow to provide its water farm technology to four counties in Kenya.