Djerba Desalination
Seawater RO, 50,000 m3/day, expandable to 75,000 m3/day in Tunisia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Tunisia
- Location
- Djerba
- Coordinates
- 33.800, 10.850
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 50,000 m3/day, expandable to 75,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- EUR 70 m (2018), about US$83 m at EUR 0.847 per US$ (World Bank official exchange rate, euro area, 2018 average)
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- SONEDE
- Operator
- SONEDE
- Finance
- KfW (EUR 60 million) and AFD
- Award or start year
- 2018
- Commissioned
- 2018-05
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 2018-05
Plant inaugurated on Djerba
- 2019
Second place, Desalination Plant of the Year, Global Water Summit
Sources
3 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- WaterWorld, Djerba desalination plant inaugurated in Tunisia, 8 May 2018. waterworld.com.
- KfW Stories, A seawater desalination plant in Tunisia produces drinking water, 16 Mar 2020. kfw.de.
- 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.
WaterWorld gives the project cost as 70 million euro. Budget converted at EUR 0.847 per US$, the World Bank official exchange rate for the euro area (PA.NUS.FCRF) for 2018; the earlier US$81 million carried no rate.