Al Yosr (Hurghada) Desalination
Seawater RO, 80,000 m3/day in Egypt.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- Hurghada
- Coordinates
- 27.230, 33.840
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 80,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Defence, Engineering Authority, water department, for the Red Sea Governorate
- Contractor
- Metito
- Operator
- Metito (design and build on a turnkey basis including operation and maintenance)
- Finance
- Government
- Award or start year
- 2014
- Commissioned
- 2016
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2014-09
Construction starts
- 2016-09
Project completion date recorded by the Ministry of Defence
Sources
6 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Egyptian Ministry of Defence, national projects, Establishment of desalination station, capacity 80000 m3/day in El-Yosr / Hurghada (for Red Sea Governorate). mod.gov.eg.
- Project duration from 30 September 2014 to 30 September 2016. Metito, Sea Water Reverse Osmosis Plant, Hurghada City, Red Sea Governorate. metito.com.
- Capacity 80,000 m3/day; client the Ministry of Defense Engineering Authority water department; double pass reverse osmosis with isobaric pressure exchangers for energy recovery; design and build on a turnkey basis including operation and maintenance; serves a population of more than 500,000; described as the first large seawater reverse osmosis plant in Egypt.
- Coordinates added on 20 September 2026, approximate.
- Egypt's national projects map, Al Yosr water desalination plant in Hurghada. egy-map.com.
- 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.
carries a location link centred on 27.2314 33.8431 at zoom 14 and places the plant on the Red Sea shore beside Hurghada's port on 75,000 square metres. The view does not resolve a footprint, so the coordinate is given to two decimals. Reverse geocoding returns the Hurghada marina area in Red Sea governorate and the point lies 0.16 km from the OpenStreetMap coastline.