New project to boost rainwater drainage efficiency across Kuwait
Scheduled for early 2025, the projects include regular drainage, new collection tanks, watershed reduction, critical site repairs, pipe replacements, increased network capacity, and improved sea outlets to mitigate high tide impacts.
• The project aims to enhance drainage performance, increase network capacity, and provide advanced services to residents by ensuring regular rainwater discharge, minimizing water accumulation, and maintaining the quality of rainwater in independent networks.
Sources at the Ministry of Public Works disclosed that the Public Authority for Roads and Land Transport is gearing up to launch a new project to enhance the efficiency of rainwater drainage networks in various areas across Kuwait, as reported by Al Anba newspaper.
The 12-month project, scheduled to be launched as a public tender on January 5, 2025, will adopt international engineering solutions to improve the efficiency of rainwater drainage networks in existing residential areas.
According to sources, the project aims to enhance drainage performance, increase network capacity, and provide advanced services to residents. Priority will be given to ensuring the regular discharge of rainwater, minimizing water accumulation, and maintaining the quality of rainwater discharged into independent networks. Additionally, it will address critical areas that have experienced rainwater pooling in recent years.
The scope of work includes the construction of rainwater collection tanks along network tracks, the replacement of pipe sections and sewers to boost performance, improvements to rainwater outlets connected to the sea to mitigate the impact of high tide on flow rates during rainfall, and the application of global engineering solutions to expand network capacity while preserving infrastructure and quality of life.
