{"id":1708,"date":"2026-01-04T02:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1708\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:11:10","slug":"china-races-to-power-namibias-nuclear-goals-and-save-it-from-its-worst-drought-in-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1708\/","title":{"rendered":"China races to power Namibia\u2019s nuclear goals, and save it from its worst drought in 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n        A recent update on this project shows that Swakop Uranium, the state-owned Chinese subsidiary of China General Nuclear Power Group, is stepping in to help.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        The Chinese company is partnering with Namibia&#8217;s water utility, NamWater, on the construction of the desalination plant, which would be situated close to Swakopmund.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Both parties, via a joint statement, revealed that the negotiations went very smoothly, and Swakop, which owns a 70% stake in the project, is keen on beginning the project immediately.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        &#8220;The next steps include the registration of the Erongo Sunam Desalination Project Joint Venture Company, the detailed engineering, environmental assessments, financing arrangements, and construction planning,&#8221; the statement read.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        The desalination plant, as seen on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/chinese-uranium-miner-help-build-namibias-second-desalination-plant-2025-12-10\/\" id=\"7af42658-08d5-4861-aa29-90c94a278b95\" data-link-role-code=\"open_new_tab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters<\/a>, will benefit communities in Namibia&#8217;s Erongo region near the Atlantic Ocean and strengthen water supplies to Husab, the nation&#8217;s largest uranium mine.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Earlier reports indicated that Namibia intended to begin construction early in 2025.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        This project was first suggested in 1998, and only resurfaced and was approved last year, owing to Namibia&#8217;s 100-year high drought.\n    <\/p>\n<p>        Namibia\u2019s need for a second desalination plant<\/p>\n<p>                    <img width=\"790\" height=\"330\" alt=\"Worst drought in 100 years awakens a 26 year old Namibian project\" title=\"Worst drought in 100 years awakens a 26 year old Namibian project\" class=\"image lazyloaded imgWithMetaData\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20width%3D'790'%20height%3D'330'%20data-ring-placeholder%3D'1'%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-original=\"https:\/\/ocdn.eu\/pulscms-transforms\/1\/Z7SktkpTURBXy9mMmM1YjdlYWJjYjA0MTc4YWRkMjRlOWQxNzA5YmVkYy5qcGeRlQLNAxbNAUrCww\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n        Last year, Namibia reported its worst drought in more than a century, making the project essential, alongside the country\u2019s uranium production.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Namibia is the world&#8217;s third-largest producer of uranium, accounting for 11% of the global market. The uranium sector is experiencing a surge in acquisitions and exploration, which is increasing the water demand.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Namibia&#8217;s aggressive green hydrogen objectives, which aim to produce 10\u201312 million metric tons of hydrogen equivalent per year by 2050, are depleting the nation&#8217;s subterranean water sources.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        According to Calle Schlettwein, the country\u2019s minister of agriculture, the desalination plant would be engineered to have the capacity to produce roughly 20 million cubic meters of water.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recent update on this project shows that Swakop Uranium, the state-owned Chinese subsidiary of China General Nuclear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102],"class_list":{"0":"post-1708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-namibia","8":"tag-namibia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}