Algeria initiates $5.4 billion plan to develop drinking water from the sea

According to reporting by Bloomberg, Algeria plans to spend $5.4 billion developing five new plants due to start operating later this year and according to Lotfi Zennadi, chief executive officer of state-owned Algerian Energy Co. it will increase 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. Six more installations are planned by 2030, he said. OPEC nation already has Africa’s biggest processing capacity. As rains fail, authorities eye growing capability 160% by 2030.