South Africa Municipality Plans Desalination Plant

South Africa is planning to build a R210m ($30m) plant in Mossel Bay to ease the effects of drought in the region.

The project is partly funded by PetroSA, which will fund R80m ($11.5m), while the remaining money will be funded by the municipality.

The plant will desalinate 15 million litres of water a day, out of which ten million litres will be supplied to the Mossel Bay municipality and the remaining five million litres to PetroSA’s gas-to-liquids refinery.

The South African national treasury is funding R92m ($13m) for the construction of the plant and the plant is expected to be completed by February.