Gafsa Brackish Water Desalination
Brackish water RO, 12,000 m3/day in Tunisia.
Under construction
The record
- Country
- Tunisia
- Location
- Gafsa
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Brackish water RO
- Capacity
- 12,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Under construction
- Owner or client
- SONEDE
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- SONEDE
- Finance
- KfW loan of EUR 57.5 million and SONEDE EUR 24 million within a 383 million dinar programme
- Award or start year
- 2019
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2019
Execution of the second phase of the southern water quality programme begun, with completion set for 2026
Sources
2 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, 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 of five stations comprising Ben Guerdane 15,000 m3/day, Gafsa 12,000, Meknassi 4,000, Degueche 2,000 and Blidet 2,000; execution period 2019 to 2026; cost 383 million dinars, about EUR 113 million, with EUR 57.5 million from KfW and EUR 24 million from SONEDE; 541,000 beneficiaries. The first phase of ten stations totalling 36,200 m3/day at Matmata, Mareth, Belkhir, Beni Khedech, Tozeur, Nefta, Hezoua, Kebili, Douz and Souk Lahad was financed by KfW and SONEDE.