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Drought-Hit Algeria Has $5.4 Billion Plan to Make Drinking Water From Sea
- OPEC nation already has Africa’s biggest processing capacity
- As rains fail, authorities eye growing capability 160% by 2030
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Algeria plans to spend $5.4 billion boosting what are already Africa’s largest desalination facilities, as climate change piles pressure on the OPEC member’s water supplies.
Five new plants due to start operating this year will hike the amount of drinking water the nation will have the capacity to produce from the Mediterranean to 3.7 million cubic meters per day from 2.2 million, according to Lotfi Zennadi, chief executive officer of state-owned Algerian Energy Co. Six more installations are planned by 2030, he said.