Laayoune Seawater Desalination Plant will begin pumping 52,000 cubic meters of water per day to the area’s growing population by the end of the year, announced the general director of the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE).
Abderrahim El Hadifi, general director of the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) said final construction works, expected to finish by June 2021, have been pushed to the end of 2021.
The plant will supply 26,000 m3 of drinking water daily to the population of Laâyoune, equipping the desalination plant with three storage tanks with a total capacity of 5,500 m3.
The desalination plant project, whose implementation began in early 2021 is costing the Moroccan government MAD 370 million.
In addition to Laâyoune, towns including El Marsa and the centers of Foum El Oued and Tarouma will also benefit from drinking water expectedly until 2035.
“This flagship project will increase the production capacity of drinking water to 60,000m3 / d and as a result, help meet the drinking water needs of the inhabitants of Laâyoune and El Marsa as well as the Forum centers, El Oued and Tarouma until 2035 at the least.” Said El Hafidi.
Morocco was identified as “very vulnerable” by the 4th Assessment Report of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), its regions are affected by drought, increase in average temperatures, heatwaves, changing rainfall patterns, extreme rainfalls, floods and sea-level rise.
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