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, shows some sections of various projects can be approaching the operating stage.
According to MEED magazine the facility was designed to treat wastewater from the southern part of Kuwait, to supply agricultural plots and various other industries with highly treated wastewater, reports Al-Qabas daily.
The magazine added, the wastewater treatment plant, which has an initial capacity of 500,000 cubic meters per day and can be expanded to 700,000, is being developed on the basis of the build-operate-transfer (B.O.T) system.
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.
MEED went on to say, 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 long-awaited 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.
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