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Jebha: desalination and water supply

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Tracking the plant and its documented operating results.

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Operations reportedly began on 6 November; actual output remains to be documented.

Jebha: desalination plant starts operations, regional utility says

The Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima regional utility began operating a desalination plant in Jebha on 6 November 2026, MAP reports.

A tap filling a water bottle.
Illustration from 2021, not taken in Jebha. Doggo19292 / Wikimedia Commons, CC0. — Doggo19292 / Wikimedia Commons — CC0 1.0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ ; 6 février 2021, sans modification.

An operator representative puts capacity at 864 m³ a day, targeting around 14,500 residents in Jebha and Amtar. The plant uses reverse osmosis. These figures describe capacity and intended beneficiaries, without an independent measurement of the service actually delivered.

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