Spanish Firms Lead Bid for $870 Million Casablanca Desalination Project

The National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) has launched a tender for the construction of this infrastructure which will be installed in the Casablanca region and will have a maximum capacity of 822,000 cubic meters per day to meet the demand for drinking water and irrigation of some 5,000 hectares of land. The cost of the project is estimated at more than 800 million euros, reports El Economista.

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In this context, the Office received several offers and retained in a first preselection phase, six consortia including the Spanish companies Acciona, Abengoa and Lantania. Acciona is in a group with Afriquia Gaz and Green of Africa, two subsidiaries of the Moroccan AKWA. The company has been present in Morocco for 70 years where it has carried out various port and airport, hydraulic, road and socio-community infrastructures.

Acciona carried out its first wastewater treatment plant in 2012 in Morocco. The company Abengoa, through its subsidiary Abengoa Agua, is in a group with the French company Engie. The engineering company based in Seville has just completed the Agadir desalination plant.