Mazotos desalination plant moves ahead despite community’s legal challenge

The government is determined to proceed with construction of a new mobile desalination unit in the Mazotos community, with a capacity of 40,000 cubic metres of water a day, regardless of legal measures taken by the community, which opposes the project.

The Water Development Department said the project is being promoted through expedited but fully lawful and transparent procedures, aimed solely at the public interest and at addressing intensifying water shortage problems, with the goal of...