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Launch of the construction site for a seawater desalination station in Marsa Ben M’hidi
Sonatrach/EADE desalination
The Chairman and CEO of the Sonatrach group, Noureddine Daoudi, and the Chairman and CEO of the Algerian Water Desalination Company (EADE) Lahcen Bada, supervised, on Saturday, in the company of the wilaya authorities, the launch of the construction site of a Seawater Desalination Station (SDEM) on the beach of Aïn Adjroud in the commune of Marsa Ben M’hidi.
This new station is part of the complementary program approved by the Council of Ministers, meeting last October under the presidency of the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, aimed at the establishment of three SDEMs in the wilayas of Tlemcen, Mostaganem and Chlef, each having a daily production capacity of 300,000 m3, according to the explanations provided by Mouloud Hachlaf, deputy CEO of EADE.
This station, which covers an area of 15 hectares, and whose construction has been entrusted to the company Cosider Canalisations, part of the Cosider group, specializing in large hydraulic infrastructure projects, will have to produce 300,000 m3 of water per day, intended for the drinking water supply of 3 million inhabitants of the wilaya of Tlemcen and neighboring wilayas, the same source said.
The station, which will operate using the reverse osmosis process, will also have to generate no less than 1,500 jobs, including 100 permanent ones, upon receipt of its first phase scheduled in 22 months, with an initial capacity of 150,000 m3 per day, it was specified.
The CEO of Sonatrach, Noureddine Daoudi, declared to the press, on the sidelines of the launch of the project, that “this project is part of the implementation of the decisions of the President of the Republic aimed at solving the problem of drinking water supply in the wilayas of the West of the country”, adding that two other similar projects will be launched in Chlef and Mostaganem.
This complementary program for the construction of three seawater desalination stations aims to strengthen water security in the western region of the country and reduce dependence on surface and underground resources, in accordance with the national strategy which provides for the production of 5.6 million m3/day of desalinated water by 2030, it was underlined.
It should be remembered that the President of the Republic,
Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune had ordered the construction of five seawater desalination stations in the wilayas of El-Tarf, Béjaïa, Boumerdès, Tipaza and Oran, all commissioned this year.
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