Egypt has commenced the fourth phase of the $157 million giant Abu Rawash wastewater treatment plant. The notice was submitted from the Egypt’s Ministry of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Communities about the notice. However, it was relayed through the Construction Authority for Potable Water & Wastewater. No official timeline has been offered by the client for the issue of the request for proposals (RFP) for the project. Nonetheless, the tentative date for construction start is January 2026, with completion scheduled for June 2030.
The scheme has an official budget allocation of about $157 million and involves expanding the existing 1.6 million cubic-meter-a-day (cm/d). The fourth phase aim to achieve this expansion by adding a further 400,000 cm/d of treatment capacity. The additional capacity will be treated up to secondary treatment with the treated wastewater discharged. The water will be discharged into the Barakat drainage system and then onto the Nile before entering the Mediterranean.
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Significance of the Abu Rawash Wastewater Treatment Plant
Egypt’s Abu Rawash wastewater treatment plant is one of the world’s largest wastewater treatment complexes. Increase in capacity will increase water discharge, which will in turn increase the irrigated land area to about 290,000 acres. This is expected to benefit some 2 million people and increase food production in the region. Its 400,000 cm/d first phase was built in 1992. Afterwards, it was followed by phase 2 with a total capacity of 800,000 cm/d of primary-level treatment in 2010. It was then upgraded to secondary treatment and expanded by 400,000 cm/d in 2022. The latest expansion is being funded by the African Development Bank through a $70 million grant and the rest financed by the state. In late May, a grouping of the local Hassan Allam Construction and UAE-headquartered Metito won an estimated $200m contract to upgrade and expand the Alexandria West WWTP.
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