How a Moroccan Fishing Town could hold the key to water stress in a warming world

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🗞️ Driving the news: A desalination plant in Agadir, Morocco, is helping to tackle water scarcity by producing 275,000 cubic meters of water daily, powered by renewable energy
• Falling costs of renewable power, like solar and wind, are making desalination a more viable solution for water-stressed regions

🔭 The context: Desalination, an energy-intensive process, has become more affordable due to the plummeting cost of renewable energy
• Morocco’s increasing reliance on renewable sources, now at 20%, is enabling large-scale desalination projects to provide water for drinking and irrigation

🌍 Why it matters for the planet: Renewable-powered desalination offers a sustainable solution to the growing global water crisis, driven by droughts, population growth, and climate change
• It allows for water production that is independent of climate impacts like droughts

⏭️ What's next: Morocco is expanding its desalination capacity, with a larger 800,000 cubic meter plant being built in Casablanca
• Global demand for desalination is expected to grow, with $60 billion in investments needed over the next five years

💬 One quote: "Desalination and renewable power is a marriage made in heaven because both partners offer what the other one needs." – Peter Fiske, National Alliance for Water Innovation

📈 One stat: Desalinated water prices have fallen by 60% in the last decade, to around 37 cents per cubic meter

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