Permanent desalination plant
Paphos (Kouklia)
- Type:
- Permanent
- Capacity:
- 15,000 m³/day + 5,000 temporary until September 2027
- In service since:
- 2021
- District:
- Paphos
Average output
20,800
m³ a day in the week to 14 September
Running at
104%
of its 20,000 m³ a day that week
Share of desalinated water
9%
of all desalinated water on the island that week
Output week by week
Average m³ a day in each week with a published bulletin. The dashed line is the plant's capacity, 20,000 m³ a day. There is no bulletin for August.
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Cyprus Water Development Department, weekly «Δελτίο Νερού» workbooks, 2026 (plant output published from June).
About
The Paphos plant stands on the coast between Kouklia and Mandria, near the mouth of the Xeros river. The Paphos area has its own drinking-water network, not linked to the other permanent plants, and the plant's water goes to storage tanks at the Asprokremmos treatment plant. The same site held a 30,000 m³ a day mobile unit from 2010 to 2013. It produced water for under five months and then stood idle, costing almost €20 million in standby payments.
The cabinet approved a permanent plant in 2017. Caramondani Desalination Plants signed a 25-year build-own-operate contract in January 2019, and the plant started in May 2021, almost a year late. It runs on grid electricity.
On 6 December 2024 a fire, caused by a short circuit according to the police, swept through the plant building. The plant had covered about a third of the needs of Paphos town and the coast from Peyia to Kouklia. For 289 days the Asprokremmos and Kannaviou treatment plants and boreholes ran at full stretch to fill the gap. The rebuilt plant restarted on 21 September 2025 and reached 15,000 m³ a day two days later. Since March 2026 it has supplied a temporary extra 5,000 m³ a day, until September 2027, to make up for the water lost in the fire.
Location
Other desalination plants
Main source: gov.cy