BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 5. A desalination
plant will be built in Azerbaijan for the first time to improve the
water supply of the Absheron Peninsula. This process has already
begun, President Ilham Aliyev said during his speech at the
meeting dedicated to the 2026-2035 State
Program on improving water supply, wastewater, and stormwater
systems in the city of Baku and the Absheron Peninsula, Trend reports.
"The project will be implemented entirely through foreign
investment. It will increase the volume of water supplied to Baku
and Absheron. Technological advances make this feasible, as the
Caspian Sea is not highly saline. There is full confidence that
desalination will provide clean, high-quality drinking water. At
the same time, a large resource base for irrigation will be
created.
The Samur-Absheron water canal: we have rebuilt this canal. It
is a completely concrete canal, and the losses there are quite
small. However, measures are still on the agenda to further develop
the infrastructure of this canal to ensure that the Jeyranbatan
reservoir has a sustainable water supply. Today, water enters Baku
from five sources. The sixth source will be a desalination plant,
and, of course, this flow must be fully ensured," the head of state
said.
