Algeria launches construction of Corso seawater desalination plant

Construction of the Corso seawater desalination plant project in Algeria has been launched. Sonatrach subsidiaries, AEC and GCB, and the company Cosider Canalisation performed the launch ceremony.

The new seawater desalination plant is being built in Corso, a coastal town 25 km east of the capital Algiers. The plant will then have a capacity of 40 000 m3 per day. This capacity is expected to double to 80,000 m3 of drinking water per day in the following six months after construction.

Upon completion, the project, which should improve the supply of drinking water in the wilaya. Boumerdès is one of 22 wilayas affected by water stress in Algeria. According to Ismail Amirouche, the secretary general of the Ministry of Water Resources, speaking on national radio. The phenomenon is spreading rapidly due to climate change.

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Government’s strategy

This drinking water project was awarded to the companies AEC, GCB and Cosider Canalisation in the wake of the award of the contract for the construction of two other seawater desalination plants in Algeria. The Bateau cassé plant in Bordj El Kiffan and the El Marsa plant in Algiers will have capacities of 10,000 m3 per day and 60,000 m3 per day respectively.

“The Bordj El Kiffan project will be completed in five months and that of El Marsa will also be commissioned five months after its launch, but in a partial manner before reaching its maximum production level in nine months,” said Sonatrach.

These various works are in line with the Algerian government’s strategy for drinking water supply. Algiers is also preparing a new emergency plan to increase the country’s installed desalination capacity.