Algeria plans to spend $5.4 billion boosting what are already Africa’s largest desalination facilities, as climate change piles pressure on the OPEC member’s water supplies. It’s a process already favored by wealthy states on the Arabian peninsula, where almost all drinking water comes from the sea and one of the world’s largest plants is found at Jebel Ali in Dubai. Africa’s biggest country by area, Algeria now targets getting 60% of its drinking water from desalination by the turn of the decade, compared with 42% currently. That’ll culminate in total capacity of some 5.8 million cubic meters by 2030. AEC will charge the state distributor Algérienne Des Eaux 52-100 dinars ($0.39-0.76) per cubic meter for the water, Zennadi said.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 14, 2024 10:49 UTC