Sebou–Bouregreg Water Highway
Interbasin transfer pipeline, 15 m3/s design flow; initial forecast 350 to 400 million m3/year, close to 500 million m3 in the first year and 953 million m3 in total between August 2023 and December 2025 in Morocco.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Morocco
- Location
- Kénitra
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Interbasin transfer pipeline
- Capacity
- 15 m3/s design flow; initial forecast 350 to 400 million m3/year, close to 500 million m3 in the first year and 953 million m3 in total between August 2023 and December 2025
- Capital cost
- US$600 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministère de l'Équipement et de l'Eau
- Contractor
- SGTM (Société générale des travaux du Maroc)
- Operator
- Ministère de l'Équipement et de l'Eau
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2022
- Commissioned
- 2023-08
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2022-12
Works launched
- 2023-08
First water delivered to the Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah reservoir
- 2025-12
Cumulative transfer reached 953 million m3
- 2026-12
Second phase toward the Oum Er Rbia due to start
Sources
8 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Le360, En images, l'autoroute de l'eau Sebou-Bouregreg (Jan 2025). fr.le360.ma.
- 67 km of 3,200 mm steel pipe, two pumping stations rated 15 m3/s combined, 6 billion dirhams, works launched December 2022 and water flowing from 28 August 2023, serving about 12 million people between Rabat and Casablanca.
- Policy Center for the New South, Desalinisation, barrages et autoroutes de l'eau, PP-19/25 (May 2025). policycenter.ma.
- First reach of 70 km from the Sebou to the Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah dam, with a 340 km second reach planned to the Oum Er Rbia; close to 500 Mm3 moved in the first year against an initial forecast of 350 to 400 Mm3, averaging 39 Mm3 a month at more than 13 m3/s.
- Le360, Barrages, dessalement, transferts d'eau: comment le Maroc restructure son mix hydrique (Mar 2026). fr.le360.ma.
- 953 Mm3 transferred between August 2023 and December 2025 at 15 m3/s for 6 billion dirhams; a second phase of about 210 km at 30 to 45 m3/s toward the Oum Er Rbia is to start at the end of 2026, and a Laou-Loukkos-Sebou phase is planned.
- Novacim, Autoroute de l'eau: interconnexion des bassins de Sebou et Bouregreg. novacim.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.
The cement supplier's project sheet names SGTM as the works contractor and SNCE as engineer, over 2022 to 2023, for 66.7 km of pipe, 5,000 m3 of reservoirs, pumping stations rated 15 m3/s, associated electrical works, a budget of 6 billion dirhams and an annual transfer of 350 to 400 million m3 of drinking water.