Agadir Desalination & Irrigation
Seawater RO, 275,000 m3/day (150,000 m3/day drinking water, 125,000 m3/day irrigation), expandable to 400,000 m3/day in Morocco.
Operational
Landmark One plant, two customers: a city and its export farms share the cost of desalinated water.
The record
- Country
- Morocco
- Location
- Agadir
- Coordinates
- 30.420, -9.600
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 275,000 m3/day (150,000 m3/day drinking water, 125,000 m3/day irrigation), expandable to 400,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$346 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- ONEE and the Ministry of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests
- Contractor
- Abengoa
- Operator
- Abengoa
- Finance
- 30-year PPP (design, build, finance, operate, maintain); sponsors Abengoa and InfraMaroc (CDG Capital Infrastructures)
- Award or start year
- 2017
- Commissioned
- 2022
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 2017
PPP contract awarded to Abengoa
- 2018-07
Construction starts
- 2019-06
Financial close
- 2022-01
Plant starts producing desalinated water meeting quality standards
- 2022-06
All contractual tests passed, start of commercial operation formalities
Sources
4 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Global Infrastructure Hub, Case study: Agadir mutualized desalination plant (PDF, May 2019). cdn.gihub.org.
- (cost EUR 309 million / USD 346 million at the source's EUR/USD 1.12).
- Smart Water Magazine, Abengoa successfully passes all contractual tests for the Agadir desalination plant, 8 June 2022. smartwatermagazine.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.