Construction for the installation of a seawater desalination plant and a wind farm in Dakhla are well underway, to the dismay of the separatist Polisario Front, who unsuccessfully made a number of complaints attempting to cancel the projects.
NGO Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) was concerned by a shipment to the port of Laayoune, on September 25 and 27, of the first batch of wind turbines produced by the Chinese company Envision Energy, intended for the Dakhla plant.
The shipment had made a stopover a few days earlier in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, as part of the green energy project in Morocco’s southern city.
Upon the announcement for both projects, which will serve to further develop the region’s economy, prosperity and self-sufficiency in water and electricity, WSRW fiercely opposed their creation, having made at least three attempts to persuade French group Engie to withdraw from the project.
The Dakhla water desalination plant project will have a production capacity of 90,000 to 100,000 m³ of water per day, and will give the opportunity to encourage agriculture by facilitating the irrigation of these arid lands.
A total of 5,000 hectares will be irrigated using desalinated water.
The water desalination plant will also be supplied with energy by a 40-megawatt (MW) wind farm, of which the first part of the turbines has just been delivered.
The project was launched in the summer of 2022, with the signing of a memorandum of understanding and public-private partnership agreements for the construction of a seawater desalination plant and a wind farm in Dakhla, under the presidency of Head of Government Aziz Akhannouch.
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