Aiming towards improving water sanitation services, The National Sanitation Office is implementing a water treatment plant project in Khelidia. The National Sanitation Office is looking forward to give a tender to an organization that will be in charge of the water treatment plant construction, carry out feasibility study and also its commissioning within the governorate of Ben Arous, north-west Tunisia.
The purified wastewater will be returned to nature, decreasing contamination and the spread of water-borne infections.The water treatment plant project in Khelidia is expected to be able to treat an average of 2,427m³of effluent per day which in turn adds up to 72,810m³ per month. Companies interested have until April 12th 2022 to bid for the tender.  A transfer system for the purified wastewater is expected to be built by the selected company.The services of civil engineering works can be trusted to a foreign or a Tunisian company practicing civil engineering works, in a joint or joint group with the company dependable for supply,assembly, transport, and testing of mechanical, electromechanical and electric gear.
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The water treatment plant project in Khelidia points towards improving sanitation services in 33 municipalities of less than 10,000 occupants, spread over 19 governorates of Tunisia through installing 800 linear km of transfer essential and auxiliary transfer network, the development of 24 plants committed to wastewater treatment and the construction of 30 pumping stations.
AfDB and EBRD project financing
With funding from The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Africa development bank, The National Sanitation Office intends to utilize a portion of the loans from the European Bank and the African Improvement Bank (AfDB), discharged under Phase I of the Sanitation Program for Small Cities with less than 10,000 occupants (PAPC-I)to fund the acknowledgment of civil engineering works and equipment of a waste water plant for the Khelidia commune within the Ben Arous Governate
