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🌊 Morocco bets big on desalination – why it matters for Marisol-type ideas Morocco has announced that by 2030 it aims to cover 60 % of its drinking water from desalinated seawater (up from ~25 % today), powered by renewables. The plan is to reach 1.7 billion m³/year via existing plants, projects under construction and new tenders, including a ~MAD 10 bn (≈ USD 1 bn) plant near Tiznit with 350 million m³/year capacity for cities and farmland. Sources: www.reuters.com/sustainabili..., www.moroccoworldnews.com/2025/12/2706..., www.world-energy.org/article/5467.... For Marisol and similar coastal, climate-resilient building concepts, this is a strong signal: - Large-scale seawater handling + treatment is no longer exotic infrastructure but part of national baselines for water security. - Renewable-powered desalination directly lowers the climate and cost objections to using seawater in cooling loops, grey-water concepts and district-scale systems. - The coupling of urban demand + agriculture around one desal backbone shows how coastal projects could share infrastructure: buildings, ports, farms and industry all drawing from the same resilient water spine. In short: Morocco is turning desalination into a core public-good utility. Marisol-type systems can ride that wave by designing buildings and districts that assume abundant, low-carbon seawater as a primary input – not a last-resort emergency option.