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The Algerian minister of Water resources tours
The desalination plant built by Aqualia at
Cap Djinet (Algeria) welcomed Hocine Ne-
cib, the Minister of Water Resources of this
country in North Africa. The minister toured
the facilities accompanied by Josu Atxurra,
Aqualia’s manager of desalination plants in
Algeria, and Salah Kouchi, director of the
joint venture responsible for the project:
Aqualia and GS-Inima 51% and the remai-
ning 49% held by AEC, the Algerian Energy
Company).
Situated at the Boumerdès region, the plant
is, in the words of the Minister, “one of the
most important infrastructures created for
the supply of drinking water”.
It recently started operations and in two
days reached its maximum output of
100,000 m
3
/day. This desalination plant will
provide drinking water to a population of
more than half a million in this region. The
contract contemplated the design, funding,
operations, and maintenance of the plant
over a 25-year period during which the pur-
chase of water is guaranteed by the State
company Sonatrach.
u s i n e s s
The plant, at full
production capacity,
will supply water to
more than half a million
Algerians
Aqualia’s macro-desalination plant
at Cap Djinet
In the centre, Hocine Necib, Algeria’s Minister of Water Resources on his left,
Josu Atxurra, Aqualia’s manager of plants in Algeria.
Different moments during the tour of the facilities where the Algerian minister listens to the
explanations provided by Salah Kouchi, director of the company in charge of the project.