Nador Desalination
Seawater RO, 250 million m3/year announced at the launch of works; the 2022 study set 100 million m3/year extensible to 200 million m3/year in Morocco.
The record
- Country
- Morocco
- Location
- Nador
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 250 million m3/year announced at the launch of works; the 2022 study set 100 million m3/year extensible to 200 million m3/year
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Under construction
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Equipment and Water, with the Oriental Regional Council
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Public-private partnership
- Award or start year
- 2025
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2022-08
CID, Agroconcept and Medsurvey reported as the study consortium
- 2023-10
Minister of Equipment and Water announces a tender for a 250 million m3/year plant
Sources
12 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Le360, Dessalement: les cinq projets phares qui vont transformer la gestion de l'eau au Maroc, 8 August 2022. fr.le360.ma.
- The Oriental project was then at the feasibility and implementation study stage, a contract won by the CID, Agroconcept and Medsurvey consortium after a tender launched on 12 May.
- Capacity was given as 100 million cubic metres, able to rise to 200 million, the plant to be built at Nador under a public-private partnership.
- The scheme is the subject of a partnership agreement between the Ministry of Equipment and Water and the Oriental Regional Council, with a budget of more than 1.3 billion dirhams allocated to the wider programme rather than to the plant alone.
- It will reinforce the resources of the Moulouya basin and secure drinking water for Nador, Oujda, Berkane, Taourirt and Saidia, and may also serve irrigation in the basin.
- Barlamane, Lancement des travaux d'une station de dessalement a Nador, 15 February 2025. barlamane.com.
- Moroccan authorities launched construction at Nador of a plant of 250 million cubic metres a year, the second largest in the country, with one part for households and one for irrigation, running on renewable energy.
- The announcement was made by the Minister of Equipment and Water, Nizar Baraka, at the Orientales de l'investisseur forum in Oujda.
- La Vie eco, Dessalement: le Maroc accelere la cadence, 28 February 2025. lavieeco.com.
- Construction works for a Nador plant of 250 million cubic metres a year had recently been launched.
- La Vie eco, Station de dessalement de Nador: l'appel d'offres lance avant la fin de l'annee, 17 October 2023. lavieeco.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
Baraka told Reuters that Morocco would tender a 250 million cubic metre plant at Nador by the end of that year, second only to the 300 million cubic metre plant planned at Casablanca, both to run on renewable energy. Capacity figures conflict between the 2022 study and the 2025 launch announcements and both are recorded. No page opened names a contractor or a plant cost. A separate and much smaller desalination plant for the Nador West Med port is a different scheme and is easily confused with this one.