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A tour guide walks past the filters in the Reverse Osmosis Building during tour of the Carlsbad Desalination plant in Carlsbad, California, December 14, 2015. Image used for illustrative purposes.
Algeria has launched five seawater desalination projects along its Northern Mediterranean coasts and intends to build six others, the official Algerian press agency has said.
The projects have a production capacity of 3.6 million cubic metres per day (m3/day) and are part of a strategy to become self-sufficient in drinking water.
The agency quoted Mohammed Taibi, Director General of the Algerian Energy Company, a subsidiary of the state-owned Sonatrach, as saying five plants with a combined capacity of 300,000 m3/day are under construction and another six would be launched shortly.
“We aim to boost the total number of desalination facilities on the Northern coastline to 19 with a total capacity of 3.6 million m3/day,” he said.
(Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon)
(anoop.menon@lseg.com)
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