Al Hoceïma Desalination
Seawater RO, 17,280 m3/day, about 6.3 million m3/year in Morocco.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Morocco
- Location
- Al Hoceïma
- Coordinates
- 35.210, -3.900
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 17,280 m3/day, about 6.3 million m3/year
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- ONEE
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- ONEE
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2017
- Commissioned
- 2020-05
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2020-05
Commissioned
Sources
9 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- ONEE, Experience de l'ONEE en matiere de dessalement d'eau, IME webinar (Jun 2021). remoc.org.
- Fiche technique gives 17,280 m3/day by reverse osmosis on seawater boreholes at 36 g/l salinity, entering service in 2020; the same inventory confirms it as ONEE's first seawater plant on the Mediterranean coast.
- EcoActu, Laayoune: 4eme station de dessalement achevee par l'ONEE (Oct 2022). ecoactu.ma.
- Dates the Al Hoceima commissioning to May 2020. Policy Center for the New South, Desalinisation, barrages et autoroutes de l'eau, PP-19/25 (May 2025). policycenter.ma.
- Table 1 records Al Hoceima in service at 6.30 Mm3/year, all for drinking water.
- Coordinates added on 20 September 2026, approximate.
- Two peer-reviewed papers place the plant next to Sfiha beach in the commune of Ajdir on a 3.2 hectare site about 8 km south-east of Al Hoceima: Performance study of the Al Hoceima seawater desalination plant, E3S Web of Conferences 2024. e3s-conferences.org.
- and Assessment of water treatment processes and quality parameters at the Al Hoceima desalination plant, BIO Web of Conferences 2024. bio-conferences.org.
- 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.
The plant is not mapped in OpenStreetMap, so the coordinate is the centre of the mapped Sfiha beach features and is given to two decimals. Reverse geocoding returns Sidi bou Mediane in the pachalik of Ajdir, province of Al Hoceima, and the point lies 0.12 km from the OpenStreetMap coastline.