On Tuesday, Abderrahim El Hafidi, Managing Director of the Office national de l’électricité et de l’eau potable (ONEE), kicked off the commissioning of a seawater desalination plant at the El Guerguarate border crossing, to mark the 48th anniversary of the Green March.
The launch of this new station, which is part of a series of structuring projects launched by ONEE in the Dakhla-Oued Eddahab region, was given by El Hafidi, in the presence of the Governor of Aousserd Province, Abderrahamane El Jaouhari, and the Director General of the Agency for the Promotion and Economic and Social Development of the Southern Provinces (APDS), Jabrane Reklaoui.
At a total cost of 30 million dirhams (MDH), financed by APDS to the tune of 26 MDH and ONEE to the tune of 4 MDH, this project involves the construction and equipping of a new borehole, a seawater desalination plant with a flow rate of 432 m3/day and the construction of an elevated reservoir with a capacity of 200 m3, as well as a 5 km distribution network.
The project, on which work began in November 2021, will improve drinking water supply conditions for the area’s population by supplying them with higher-quality water from a local desalination plant, distributed in the first phase by tanker trucks.
In a second phase, it also includes the construction of a drinking water distribution network, scheduled for launch in 2024.
To support the development drive in the southern provinces, ONEE has carried out a number of structuring projects in the fields of drinking water and liquid sanitation, in order to meet the growing demand for these basic services.
Overall investment in these development projects has required a budget of 7.8 billion dirhams in these two fields over the period 1975 to 2023.
As for ONEE’s prospects up to 2027, a total investment of 2.9 MMDH is planned in the southern provinces, in the fields of drinking water and liquid sanitation.
These structuring ONEE projects are a response to the growing need for drinking water and liquid sanitation, given the economic and social dynamism of the southern provinces and their influence at national and continental level.
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