Marrakech - HM King Mohammed VI inaugurated, on Thursday in Marrakech, a wastewater treatment and re-use project in the city, carried out for a total cost of 1.23 billion dirhams.
- The project is the first of its kind in
Morocco and Africa
- The project will benefit a population of
over 1.3 million.
- The plant will annually treat 33 cubic
meters of alternative water.
The Monarch visited the different
facilities of the new project that will contribute to the urban development of
Marrakech by treating the whole of the city’s waste water (120,000 cubic meters
per day), eliminating olfactory elements, reducing greenhouse gas emission and
preserving water resources.
Under this leading project at national and
continental levels, a purifying plant will be set up on an area spanning over
17 hectares with a treatment capacity of 1,300,000 people’s production of waste
water.
The project also provides for the creation
of a network for the re-use of purified water consisting of five pumping
stations and 80 kilometres of pipes.
In line with international norms and
standards, the new purifying plant uses state-of-the-art technologies and
adopts the “activated sludge” purification procedure followed by filtration and
fumigation with ultraviolet and chlorine.
The plant will produce 33 million of cubic
metres of alternative water annually, which represents over half of the water
consumed by the city’s population. This water will be used in irrigating green
spaces notably in 19 golf courses which will receive 23 million cubic meters of
water annually.
The plant is equipped with a laboratory and
sludge digestion units. The digested sludge will produce 20,000 normal cubic
metres daily of biogas which will generate 30,000 kilowatt-hour daily, that is
45% of the energy needs of the plant.
The use of biogas in the plant will help
reduce greenhouse gas emissions by preventing the release of 60,000 tonnes of
CO2 annually.
Source: @Map,Last
modified : 30 December 2011
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