Morocco Plans Massive Desalination Plant in Nador to Combat Drought

13 October 2023 – bySaid@Bladi · 1 min read

Morocco is preparing to launch a tender for a new seawater desalination plant in Nador, with a capacity of 250 million cubic meters per year, announced Nizar Baraka, Minister of Water and Equipment.

This plant, which will be operational after the one planned in Casablanca with a capacity of 300 million cubic meters, is betting on renewable energy to ensure the drinking water supply of the coasts and alleviate the pressure on the dams.

The persistent drought for the past five years has undermined the country’s reserves, imposing restrictions in some urban and agricultural areas. In this context, Morocco aims to build eight other eco-responsible desalination plants, complementing the current twelve plants operating on fossil fuels. The objective? To provide 1.3 billion cubic meters of fresh water by 2035.

In addition, a water "highway" has been built to transfer resources from the northwest basin to

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Water Environment Nizar Baraka