Ben Gardane Brackish Water Desalination
Brackish water RO, 1,800 m3/day in service; 15,000 m3/day under the second phase of the southern water quality programme in Tunisia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Tunisia
- Location
- Ben Gardane
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Brackish water RO
- Capacity
- 1,800 m3/day in service; 15,000 m3/day under the second phase of the southern water quality programme
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- SONEDE
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- SONEDE
- Finance
- KfW and SONEDE under the southern water quality programme
- Award or start year
- 2013
- Commissioned
- 2013
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2013
Plant commissioned at 1,800 m3/day
- 2019
Second phase of the southern water quality programme begun, including a 15,000 m3/day plant at Ben Gardane
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.
- SONEDE, Production de l'eau potable. sonede.com.tn.
- Table of desalination stations gives Ben Guerdane a 2013 date of construction and a nominal flow of 1,800 m3/day.
- SONEDE, Amelioration de la qualite des eaux distribuees au Sud Tunisien. sonede.com.tn.
- 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.
Second phase covers Ben Guerdane at 15,000 m3/day, Gafsa at 12,000, Meknassi at 4,000, Degueche at 2,000 and Blidet at 2,000, executed 2019 to 2026 for 383 million dinars or about EUR 113 million, with EUR 57.5 million from KfW and EUR 24 million from SONEDE, for 541,000 people in Tozeur, Gafsa, Gabes, Kebili and Medenine.