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Jebha: desalination plant starts operations, regional utility says

Published 7 November 2026 · 13:08 UTC

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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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Maroc24 / MAP — exploitation à Jebha, déclaration de l’opérateur
Laracheinfo — mise en exploitation de la station