Boujdour Desalination
Seawater RO, 10,800 m3/day, about 3.9 million m3/year; the 2016 unit adds 7,000 m3/day in Morocco.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Morocco
- Location
- Boujdour
- Coordinates
- 26.123, -14.494
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 10,800 m3/day, about 3.9 million m3/year; the 2016 unit adds 7,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- ONEE
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- ONEE
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1977
- Commissioned
- 2016
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 1977-01
First unit commissioned
- 2016-01
7,000 m3/day reverse osmosis unit added
Sources
3 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.
- ONEE's inventory gives Boujdour seawater desalination an operational capacity of 10,800 m3/day commissioned in stages in 1977, 1995, 2005, 2011 and 2016; the 2016 unit is 7,000 m3/day of reverse osmosis on coastal boreholes at 36 g/l TDS. Policy Center for the New South, Desalinisation, barrages et autoroutes de l'eau, PP-19/25 (May 2025). policycenter.ma.
- 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.
Table 1, built from 2023 ministry data, puts Boujdour in service at 3.90 Mm3/year, all for drinking water, and lists a further 60 Mm3/year for irrigation at Boujdour for 2030 and 2035. Coordinates from the OpenStreetMap water works at Boujdour whose operator is tagged المكتب الوطني للماء الصالح للشرب, the national drinking water office, and which is the town's only mapped production site.