Morocco is set to begin construction of the world’s largest sea water desalination plant in 2021 at the Southern Coastal City of Agadir.
Morocco had been working hard from last couple of years to construct the world’s largest desalination plant for drinking water and irrigation, following the signing of phase one of the $352.9m project.The project has finally got the approval and will be developed by an international company Abengoa in the Agadir region in partnership with the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) and BMCE Bank.
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This desalination plant in Israel, called Sorek, is currently the world’s largest, producing 625,000 cubic meters of fresh water per day. Boris Liberman, chief technology officer of IDE Technologies, the company that built this and several other huge desalination plants in Israel and California, was among the speakers at MIT’s Low Carbon Desalination Workshop, which explored the potential for reducing the carbon footprint of such facilities.
Mohamed Boussaid, Minister of Economy and Finance, and Aziz Akhannouch, Minister of Agriculture, chaired the signing of the conventions in the Souss-Massa region on 29 July, in Rabat, according to Morocco World News.
Akhannouch said that the project “constitutes a lever for sustainable socio-economic growth for the entire region.”
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The project includes the construction of a desalination plant with a 275,000m3 total production capacity of desalinated water per day that will be the largest plant designed for drinking water and irrigation. The contract also provides the flexibility for the possible capacity expansion to up to 450,000m3.
The desalination plant, which will be built and designed in such a way that it will catering with couple of alternatives of being shifted on wind power, cater to the demand of water for domestic use in addition to irrigation water needs in the area of Agadir.
Abengoa will continue to undertake the engineering, construction and operation and maintenance for a period of 27 years, as per the contract. Abengoa and the Moroccan company InfraMaroc will be investment partners and responsible for the project financing.
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Abengoa has been present in Morocco since 1977 and has offices in Rabat and Casablanca.
The project will boost drinking water facilities for the people of Ctouka Ait Baha region. It will also irrigate 15,000 ha land.
It will also encouraging the desire towards exploring and enabling sustainable energy in Africa through operating on wind power.