Three desalination plants to be built in S Tunisia

Three desalination plants to be built in S Tunisia: "Three desalination plants to be built in S Tunisia
English.news.cn 2010-08-31 07:11:41 FeedbackPrintRSS

TUNIS, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Tunisian Water Distribution Utility (SONEDE) will build three desalination plants in the southern region of Gabes, Tunisian Press Agency TAP reported on Monday.

The project which will be launched in 2011, will cost an estimated 14 million Tunisian dinars (about 11. 5 million U.S. dollars) and will supply Zarrat, Matmata and Menzel Habib with drinking water.

Earlier this month, SONEDE awarded a 70-million-euro ( around 89 U.S. dollars) contract for the building of a second reverse osmosis desalination plant on the island of Djerba to the Tunisian- Spanish Group Princesse Befesa. The plant will supply 250,000 people and is expected to be the country's largest desalination facility.

The water utility company which operates 4 plants in southern Tunisia has also launched an international tender for other brackish water and desalination plants in the southern areas of Medenine, Tozeur, Gafsa, Sidi Bouzid, Gabes and Kebili."