Kerkennah Brackish Water Desalination
Brackish water RO, 3,300 m3/day in service; replacement plant of 8,000 m3/day, expandable to 12,000 m3/day, listed as a major project in Tunisia.
The record
- Country
- Tunisia
- Location
- Kerkennah
- Coordinates
- 34.710, 11.200
- Technology
- Brackish water RO
- Capacity
- 3,300 m3/day in service; replacement plant of 8,000 m3/day, expandable to 12,000 m3/day, listed as a major project
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- SONEDE
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- SONEDE
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1983
- Commissioned
- 1983
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 1983
First brackish water plant commissioned at 3,300 m3/day
- 2026-09
SONEDE lists a replacement plant of 8,000 m3/day expandable to 12,000 m3/day among its major projects
Sources
4 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- SONEDE, Production de l'eau potable. sonede.com.tn.
- Table of desalination stations gives Kerkennah a 1983 date of construction and a nominal flow of 3,300 m3/day, the oldest of SONEDE's desalination plants.
- SONEDE, Station de dessalement d'eau saumatre aux iles de Kerkennah. sonede.com.tn.
- 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.
New plant of 8,000 m3/day expandable to 12,000 m3/day, a 5,000 m3 semi-buried reservoir and connecting mains to the Ramla distribution hub, for about 17,000 residents with a 2050 horizon, the builder to operate it for six months after completion. SONEDE gives no cost, funder, contractor or completion date. Coordinates are the SONEDE water works at Remla on Kerkennah from OpenStreetMap, the only SONEDE production site mapped on the islands, given to two decimals because the feature is unnamed.