Morocco Builds World’s Largest Seawater Desalination Plant Near Agadir

The project, called "Douira", required a budget of 3 billion dirhams. It will allow the treatment of more than 75 million cubic meters of desalinated water per year.

Scheduled for 2021, the plant, whose construction work has been entrusted to the Spanish company Abengoa, will start with a flow of 275,000 m3 per day, before reaching its maximum capacity of 450,000 m3.

The plant will ensure the irrigation of an agricultural area of 15,000 m2 and will supply the population of the Chtouka-Ait Baha region with drinking water. In this sense, the State had promised to provide the farmers of the region with desalinated water at the symbolic price of 5 dirhams per cubic meter, in exchange for a participation, in the investment project, worth 10,000 dirhams, which the farmers had paid in two installments.