Laayoune To Get Second Seawater Desalination Station Before End of 2020, Head of ONEEP

Laayoune – The city of Laayoune will get, before the end of 2020, a second seawater desalination station with a capacity of 600 L/s to meet the needs of the population until 2030, announced director general of the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEEP) Abderrahim Hafidi.

Hafidi, who took part on Friday in Laayoune in the board of directors of the Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra water basin agency, said that this project is an addition to the first sea desalination station inaugurated in [
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Laayoune To Get Second Seawater Desalination Station Before End of 2020, Head of ONEEP2020-01-15T15:44:04+01:00

Morocco is finalising a feasibility study and financial and institutional structures for a new seawater desalination plant project

According to L’Economiste, the plant will be located in Casablanca-Settat region, and will supply water to Casablanca.

Desalination plant projects are also reportedly in the pipeline for Al Hoceima, Chtouka, El Jadida, Essaouira, Laayoune, Safi, Saidia, and Tiznit-Sidi; as well as Abengoa’s up to 450,000 cu/m per day project in Agadir.

“With increasing demand and insufficient local resources, the only recourse to reduce the deficit in industrial or agriculture drinking water is desalination of seawater,” said Morocco’s secretary of state for water Charafate Afailal.

The North African country is currently implementing its Water Security Law and [
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Morocco is finalising a feasibility study and financial and institutional structures for a new seawater desalination plant project2017-09-11T17:41:46+02:00
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