Morocco Partners with Russia for Nuclear-Powered Desalination Plants

Faced with a critical water situation, Morocco, with its 600 cubic meters of water per capita per year, is flirting with the "extreme water scarcity" threshold set by the UN, recalls the newspaper Le Monde.

Although it has a dozen desalination plants running on fossil and renewable energy, Morocco aspires to produce 1 billion cubic meters of desalinated water by 2030, thus covering half of its drinking water needs. And what better than Russia, a pioneer in nuclear desalination since 1973, to accompany this transition?

As for the raw material, Morocco could use local uranium. Indeed, its phosphate reserves contain nearly 6.9 million tons of uranium, the world’s largest concentration of this ore, although its extraction remains complicated.