Sousse Seawater Desalination
Seawater RO, 50,000 m3/day, expandable to 100,000 m3/day in Tunisia.
Planned
The record
- Country
- Tunisia
- Location
- Sousse
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 50,000 m3/day, expandable to 100,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$44 million
- Stage
- Planned
- Owner or client
- SONEDE
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- SONEDE
- Finance
- Tunisian state budget
- Award or start year
- —
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2026-09
SONEDE lists the plant at 50,000 m3/day expandable to 100,000 m3/day for 133 million dinars from the state budget
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, Realisation de la station de dessalement d'eau de mer de Sousse. 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.
Plant of 50,000 m3/day expandable to 100,000 m3/day with three months of operation by the builder, plus 6,900 m of GRP mains of 1,000 to 1,400 mm for the seawater intake, brine outfall and connection to the Northern Waters system; 3.7 million direct beneficiaries and 7 million affected through the interconnected Northern Waters system; execution period seven years; financed from the state budget; cost 133 million dinars. SONEDE gives no award date, contractor or construction status.