02/09/2023
02/09/2023
KUWAIT CITY, Sept 2: The developer of the largest independent public-private partnership project in the Gulf region is making significant progress in the field of wastewater treatment, as clips of the Kuwait branch of the German company WTE Wassertechnik, the main private developer and contractor in the Umm Al-Hayman wastewater treatment plant project, show that sections of various projects could be approaching the operating stage, reports Al-Qabas daily quoting MEED. The magazine said that the facility was designed to treat wastewater from the southern part of Kuwait, to supply agriculture and various other industries with highly treated wastewater (TSE).
Capacity
MEED added the wastewater treatment plant, which has an initial capacity of 500,000 cubic meters per day and can be expanded to 700,000 cubic meters per day, is being developed on the basis of the build-operate-transfer (B.O.T) system, and the huge network of wastewater pipelines are being laid to carry sewage pipes to pumping stations and tanks on the BDO model. WTE will operate and maintain the Umm Al-Hayman wastewater treatment plant for 25 years, and the canal network for three years. MEED indicated that at the time of signing, the Umm Al-Hayman Wastewater Treatment Plant was the second project to be awarded under Kuwait’s current public-private partnership law, after the contract to develop the North Al-Zour 1 Independent Water and Power Project was awarded in 2012.
The magazine added, the project demonstrates the ability of stakeholders in the public and private sectors to implement a huge infrastructure project in a country where successful partnerships between the public and private sectors are still few and far between. It is worth noting that other sanitation projects are moving forward in Kuwait as well. Companies recently submitted bids to expand and develop the sewage treatment plant in North Kabd, affiliated with the Ministry of Public Works. Unlike the Umm Al-Hayman wastewater treatment plant project, this longawaited scheme is being developed using the traditional engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) route. The Ministry of Public Works also recently called on technically qualified companies to submit their commercial bids for the contract to build the sewage treatment plant project in South Al-Mutla’a by October 29.