Sousse Seawater Desalination
Seawater RO, 50,000 m3/day, expandable to 100,000 m3/day in Tunisia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Tunisia
- Location
- Sousse
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 50,000 m3/day, expandable to 100,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- TND 133 m (2026), about US$44 m at TND 2.997 per US$ (World Bank official exchange rate, 2025 average)
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- SONEDE
- Contractor
- Abengoa / Engineering Procurement & Project Management (EPPM)
- Operator
- SONEDE
- Finance
- Tunisian state budget
- Award or start year
- —
- Commissioned
- 2026-09
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2026-09
SONEDE lists the plant at 50,000 m3/day expandable to 100,000 m3/day for 133 million dinars from the state budget
- 2026-09
Enters effective operation on 28 September 2026
Sources
5 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, Realisation de la station de dessalement d'eau de mer de Sousse. sonede.com.tn.
- Plant of 50,000 m3/day expandable to 100,000 m3/day with three months of operation by the builder, plus 6,900 m of GRP mains of 1,000 to 1,400 mm for the seawater intake, brine outfall and connection to the Northern Waters system; 3.7 million direct beneficiaries and 7 million affected through the interconnected Northern Waters system; execution period seven years; financed from the state budget; cost 133 million dinars.
- SONEDE gives no award date, contractor or construction status.
- Business News, Sousse: apres huit ans d'attente et plusieurs reports, la station de dessalement entre enfin en service, 6 Oct 2026. businessnews.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.
Launched in 2018, the 50,000 m3/day plant entered effective operation on 28 September 2026 after several postponements; built by a consortium of the Spanish group Abengoa and the Tunisian firm Engineering Procurement & Project Management (EPPM); the article gives the cost as 132 million dinars against SONEDE's 133 million. Budget converted from SONEDE's 133 million dinars at the World Bank official exchange rate for 2025 (TND 2.997 per US$), the latest full year.