The Diplomat. 11/07/2017
The Spanish engineering company Typsa will manage in consortium with another two companies the construction of six desalination plants in the Tunisian Sahara. The contract, valued at 2.6 million euros, will last for five years, according to information provided by the company yesterday.
Typsa will assume the drawing up of construction projects for the treatment plants, the selection of construction companies and the supervision of the works for the set in motion of the plants, which will have a total capacity of 31,000 cubic metres per day. The desalination plants will desalt the water of rivers, lakes and wells, and they will provide a population of more than half a million people with drinking water.