Algeria is setting up desalination plants to confront the challenges and constructing new dams to meet the shortage of water for drinking, irrigation, industrial and household purposes. It is also focussing on building dams to store water, wherever that is possible to use available water in an innovative manner
Algeria is setting up desalination plants to confront the challenges and constructing new dams for meeting the shortage of water for drinking, irrigation, industrial, and household purposes. It is also focussing on building dams to store water, wherever that is possible to use available water in an innovative manner.
In the region of Tipaza, Kef Eddir, where the availability of water is more than anywhere else in the country, there are already 81 large dams. Four new dams, which are being built, bring the storage capacity to 9 billion cubic meters. Dozens of other similar projects are planned in the country. Algeria experienced three of the driest summers in its recent history. Water stored in the dam supplies water to the greater Algiers area, which is 150 kilometers away linked with water pipes, pumping stations, and reservoirs that stretch over dozens of kilometers toward the region’s capital, Tipaza. Upon completion, about half a million people will benefit from this ambitious regional project.
There are no dams in the very arid south of the country, lying close to the Sahara region. But that patch of the land mass has some of the largest underground reserves in the world. The inhabitants of Tamanrasset, the big city in the Hoggar region, rely on the waters drilled under the sand of the neighbouring wilayah. The water pumped out is transferred through a pipeline stretching over 700km built across the desert.
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To meet the water needs of the coastal regions, the country is dependent on waters from the ocean, which is desalinised through the intervention of state-of-the-art technologies. The plants already provide 17% of the country’s drinking water. It is expected to reach 60% by 2030, thanks to new stations that are coming up. This station produces the equivalent of 10 million liters per day, which can cater to the needs of 100,000 inhabitants.
