GE and the Algerian Energy Company’s Hamma Seawater Desalination Plant has been awarded a 2016 Impact Award in the category of “critical infrastructure” by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. government's development finance institution. OPIC’s Impact Awards recognize exceptional achievement in international private-sector development. The plant provides 1.5 million Algerian residents with fresh, clean water—meeting 25 percent of the city’s freshwater needs.

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2016 OPIC Impact Award:
Hamma Seawater Desalination
Plant
GE Water & Process Technologies
June 2016
© 2016, General Electric Company

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The Hamma Seawater Desalination
Plant (SWDP) has been awarded a
2016 Impact Award from OPIC,
which recognizes exceptional
achievement in international
private-sector development.
Read on to learn more about the
plant, and how it is contributing
to better quality of life for
residents in Algiers, Algeria.
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Water scarcity caused by demand, drought, and an aging, leaky
distribution system left residents and businesses in Algiers facing
frequent water rationing, often receiving water for only
one of every three days.

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Hamma Water Desalination SpA, a special project company with 70%
funding from GE and 30% from the Algerian Energy Company, was
selected to create the 200,000 m3/day (53 MGD) Hamma Seawater
Desalination Plant (SWDP) – a reverse osmosis seawater desalination
facility that significantly alleviates water scarcity in Algiers.
GE Water & Process Technologies was also awarded a 25-year contract
to operate and maintain the plant.

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The Hamma SWDP was Africa’s first reverse osmosis (RO) desalination
plant to be funded by public and private investment, and has been in
operation since April 2008.

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The plant consists of nine single
pass Reverse Osmosis modules.
The production per unit reaches
25,100 m3/day of drinking water.
The membrane elements of each
module are supplied by a high
pressure pump, a booster pump
and a set of 32 energy recovery
exchangers.

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The Hamma SWDP now provides ~1.5 million Algiers residents with the
fresh water they need, meeting 25% of Algiers’ freshwater needs.