Morocco/French company Osmosun installs its 1st desalination plant for irrigation in Morocco

The French-Moroccan company Sand To Green has just acquired a solar-powered seawater and brackish water desalination unit to accelerate its regenerative agriculture project underway in the Guelmim-Oued Noun region of Morocco. The containerized system, supplied and installed by the French start-up Osmosun® through the Osmosun Maroc joint venture, produces 140 m3 of fresh water per day.

The irrigation of a 38-hectare ecological plantation in the Moroccan desert. This is the aim of the regenerative agriculture project implemented by the Franco-Moroccan company Sand To Green in the Guelmim-Oued Noun region of southern Morocco. The company, which has developed an oasis-inspired agroforestry model that reverses the process of soil degradation to make desert land fertile, will irrigate these hectares of plantations with desalinated water.

Sand To Green will be based on a new containerized seawater and brackish water desalination system, powered by solar mini-grids and accompanied by backup generators. Unit 6 BW, supplied and installed by the French start-up Osmosun® on July 10, 2024, through the Osmosun Maroc joint venture, produces 140^m3 of fresh water per day.

A low-carbon system

"The water is collected from brackish groundwater and, after treatment, irrigates 31 hectares of fig, pomegranate and carob plantations, as well as plants such as geranium and rosemary. The plant will be maintained byOsmosun Maroc teams . In addition, a brine management experiment is also underway, involving the planting of 7 hectares of halophyte plants, fodder plants and trees", says the start-up.

"Using a robust, low-carbon (reduced greenhouse gas emissions) water treatment technology likeOsmosun® was a no-brainer for us", says CEO Rombaut.says Rombaut, CEO of Sand To Green, especially as this technology will help reverse the process of soil degradation, bringing drought-dead land back to life so that it can be fertile again.

The system installed by Osmosun® in Morocco is the first installed by the start-up in the Cherifian kingdom, which is multiplying its initiatives to meet the challenge of water stress. The French start-up, formerly Mascara NT, is entering the Moroccan market, following in the footsteps of East and Southern Africa, where it has already supplied and installed several containerized seawater desalination systems to improve access to drinking and irrigation water.

Source: www.afrik21.africa/