Al-Dbaiba stresses the need to unify efforts among institutions related to water supply.

Tripoli, July 10, 2024 (LANA) - Prime Minister of the National Unity Government, Abdul Hamid Al-Dbaiba, stressed the need to unify efforts between institutions related to water production and water supply, with the aim of providing drinking water to citizens in all Libyan regions and cities, and considering it a priority in development projects.

This came during the meeting held by Al-Dbaiba today, Wednesday, with the Chairman and members of the General Water Desalination Company’s Management Committee, and its General Manager, to follow up on the conditions of the technical desalination plants and determine their productivity.

The Prime Minister stressed the necessity of preparing the necessary technical specifications to raise the efficiency of desalination plants while completing the suspended water supply projects in a number of cities, and assigning the Man-Made River Authority and the General Company for Water and Sanitation to cooperate with the General Water Desalination Company with the aim of developing a unified strategy of safe plans for providing drinking water.

According to the Prime Minister's Media Office, Al-Dbaiba directed that, priority be given to the maintenance and development of desalination plants located in municipalities that were not targeted by the man-made river water in its completed stages.

The company's general manager gave a presentation on the stations' conditions, explaining that the Tobrok station operates with a production capacity of up to 20 percent of its capacity, the Darna station with a production capacity of 50 percent of its capacity after maintaining the boilers during the past year, and the Sousse station with a production capacity of up to 25 percent of its capacity. Pointing out that the two Zleten plants have stopped, while the Zawiya desalination plant is operating with a production capacity of up to 25 percent of its capacity, in addition to the Zwara desalination plant, which aims to supply the areas of Zwara, Al-Jameel, Raqdaleen, and Zolten, which is being maintained to raise production efficiency.

 The meeting was attended, according to the media office, by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Water Resources, the Head of the Man-Made River Authority, the Director General of the Housing and Utilities Projects Implementation Agency, the Director of the Executive Authority for Well Drilling, and the Chairman of the Management Committee of the General Water and Sanitation Company.

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