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The region's water market, in numbers

Every module below is live data from one of our tools: the pipeline, the benchmarks, the major projects, the atlas and the directory. Read them here, or open any tool to go deeper.

Compiled from public sources. Data as of 29 September 2026. It is a snapshot rather than a live feed, so confirm against the primary source before relying on any figure.

The market in numbers

420
projects tracked
46
programmes in the pipeline
$126.6 bn
pipeline value
145
organizations profiled

Procurement

Moving toward award

The programmes closest to a decision, from the tracked PPP pipeline.

ProgrammeCountryStageAward expected
Arana ISTP
Sharakat (Saudi Water Partnership Company)
Saudi ArabiaPreferred bidder2026-2027
Jazan small sewage treatment plants cluster
Sharakat (Saudi Water Partnership Company)
Saudi ArabiaPreferred bidder2026
Riyadh–Qassim IWTP
Sharakat (Saudi Water Partnership Company)
Saudi ArabiaPreferred bidder2026-2027
Dubai Strategic Sewerage Tunnels, Package J (Jebel Ali)
Dubai Municipality, Sewerage and Recycled Water Projects Department
United Arab EmiratesPreferred biddernot published
Dubai Strategic Sewerage Tunnels, Package W (Warsan)
Dubai Municipality, Sewerage and Recycled Water Projects Department
United Arab EmiratesPreferred biddernot published
Al-Khairan Phase 1 IWPP
KAPP
KuwaitBids submitted2026-2027
46 programmes tracked · reviewed quarterlyOpen the pipeline

Benchmarks

The price of desalinated water

Winning bid tariffs at the region's large desalination PPPs.

The winning price of desalinated water, by award year

US$ per cubic metre, first-year levelised water tariff at award

the race to the bottomand back up again$0.530Rabigh 3 IWP$0.520Shuqaiq 3 IWP$0.490Taweelah RO IWP$0.413Jubail 3A IWP$0.277Hassyan IWP (bid never financed)$0.424Jubail 3B IWP$0.483Mirfa 2 RO IWP$0.458Rabigh 4 IWP$0.365Hassyan IWP (re-award)$0.731Saadiyat RO IWP$0.765Ras Mohaisen IWP$0.00$0.15$0.30$0.45$0.60$0.75$0.9020182019202020212022202320242025

Procurer announcements and contemporaneous trade reporting. Bids are not strictly comparable: they differ in tenor, indexation, power supply and site conditions.

Bid prices at award, from procurer announcementsAll cost benchmarks

Benchmarks

What households actually pay

What a household pays for a cubic metre of water

US$/m3. Published ranges are shown at their midpoint.

Oman$2.58United Arab Emirates$1.70Qatar$1.62Palestine$1.40Bahrain$1.06Turkey$0.85Saudi Arabia$0.82Morocco$0.67Kuwait$0.57Tunisia$0.41Jordan$0.31Algeria$0.05Egypt$0.04Iraq$0.01

National utilities and water ministries; each figure is dated and sourced in the full table.

14 of the 20 countries publish a directly comparable residential tariff. 1 more publish separate rates by nationality, Lebanon charges a flat rate, and 3 publish nothing at all. All of them are listed, with their notes, in the full table.

Residential tariffs, 20 countries · reviewed annuallyFull tariff table

Projects

Find a project

Search 420 tracked projects by name, owner, contractor or city.

ProjectCountryTechnologyBudgetStage
Dubai Strategic Sewerage Tunnels (DSST)United Arab EmiratesWastewater conveyance tunnel$8.0 bnIn tender
Ras Al-Khair Power and Desalination PlantSaudi ArabiaMSF/RO + power$7.2 bnOperational
Aqaba–Amman Desalination & Conveyance (AAWDC)JordanSeawater RO + 450 km conveyance$6.0 bnUnder construction
Az-Zour North Phase 2&3 IWPPKuwaitSeawater RO + power$4.1 bnAwarded
Basra Seawater DesalinationIraqSeawater RO$4.0 bnUnder construction
Facility E IWPPQatarSeawater RO + power$3.7 bnUnder construction

The six largest of 420 tracked projects. Enable JavaScript to search all of them here.

$126.6 bn of tracked capital investmentOpen the database

Atlas

Where the work is

Shaded by tracked projects per country; the largest are marked.

Ras Al-Khair Power and Desalination Plant, $7200 mAqaba–Amman Desalination & Conveyance (AAWDC), $6000 mAz-Zour North Phase 2&3 IWPP, $4100 mBasra Seawater Desalination, $4000 mFacility E IWPP, $3700 mQatar Mega Reservoirs, $3200 mPersian Gulf Desalination & Conveyance (Kerman and Yazd), $3200 mNew Delta (El-Hammam) Treatment, $3000 mCommon Seawater Supply Project, $3000 mJebel Ali M-Station, $2764 m
1–2 projects3–56–910–1516+largest by budget
20 countries mappedOpen the atlas

Track record

Who is winning the work

Ranked by number of projects won, not by headline value.

Most active firms

  • 1ACWA Power5 projects
  • 2Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction4 projects
  • 3Degremont of France, designer and contractor4 projects
  • 4TAQA3 projects
  • 5ENGIE3 projects

Latest awards

  • Az-Zour North Phase 2 & 3 IWPPACWA Power, Gulf Investment Corporation · 2026
  • Melen Dam completion worksLimak · 2026
  • Basra Seawater DesalinationPowerChina, Al Ridha Group · 2025
21 awards loggedFull awards log

Institutions

Who is buying

  • Emirates Water & Electricity Company (EWEC)PPP procurer · United Arab Emirates
  • Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)Development bank · Regional
  • National Water Company (NWC)Utility · Saudi Arabia

145 organizations profiled across 20 countries.

Ministries, regulators, utilities, financiersOpen the directory

Live tenders

Where the notices are published

We do not run a tender feed. These are the portals that publish the notices: the procurers themselves, national platforms and the development banks.

31 verified portalsAll portals

Where to start

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