Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho has unveiled two international companies that will carry out the Sh16 billion sea desalination project that is due to start works in June next year.
Spanish company Almar Water Solutions and Switzerland’s Aqua Swiss will develop Kenya’s first large-scale desalination plants, which Mr Joho says will end perennial water shortages in Mombasa.
The two firms will be tasked with carrying out the billion-shilling project comprising two plants, with the main one being set up mostly by Almar Water Solutions on the mainland.
Aqua Swiss has been awarded a contract to develop another smaller scale desalination plant in Likoni that will have a capacity of 30,000 cubic meters per day.
“Almar Water Solutions will put up the desalination plant in North mainland zone…It will be able to pump more than 100,000 cubic meters of water per day, giving quality water supply to over a million people in the county,” Mr Joho said Tuesday, noting that Mombasa had suffered from acute water shortages due to lack of its own fresh water source.
