Algeria

Bousmail seawater desalination plant enters service end of October

Bousmail (Tipaza province) seawater desalination plant will be put into service by the end of next October, the Director of seawater desalination plants of West of Algiers at Algeria Water Company, Mr Edir Bouraya, said on Sunday.

With a capacity of 10,000 cubic meters per day, Bousmail will therefore be the last station to be received under the emergency programme set by the Ministry of Water Resources and Water Security to address the water deficit in Algiers and Tipaza provinces.

In addition to Bousmail plant, the plan includes the rehabilitation and expansion of three other seawater desalination plants, namely Palm Beach plant, which was delivered on 19 August with a capacity of 5,000 cubic meters per day, Ain Benian plant, which came into service on Saturday with a capacity of 10,000 cubic meters per day, and Zeralda plant.

In the same context, the official highlighted that after the operation of the last station in the framework of the emergency programme, approximately 226 thousand residents of Algiers and Tipaza will benefit from the desalinated sea water produced by these four stations.

It concerns 55,000 residents in the municipality of Staouali, 66,000 residents in the municipality of Ain Benian, 55,000 in the municipality of Zeralda and 55,000 in the municipality of Bousmail.

The rehabilitation and expansion works of the four plants was carried out by 100 percent Algerian competences, while the pumps were imported from Germany, which are “state-of-the-art” equipment with a ten-year warranty, he said.

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