Ras Abu Jarjur RO
Brackish water RO, 10 MIGD (46,000 m3/day) at commissioning, raised to 16.5 MIGD (75,000 m3/day) in 2006 in Bahrain.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Bahrain
- Location
- Ras Abu Jarjur
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Brackish water RO
- Capacity
- 10 MIGD (46,000 m3/day) at commissioning, raised to 16.5 MIGD (75,000 m3/day) in 2006
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Electricity and Water Authority, formerly the Ministry of Works, Electricity and Water
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Electricity and Water Authority
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1984
- Commissioned
- 1984-10
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1984-10
Plant commissioned with 46,000 m3/day of brackish water reverse osmosis capacity
- 2006
Capacity raised to 16.5 MIGD
Sources
4 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Water Conditioning and Purification magazine, Status of Membrane Technology Desalination of Water in the Arab World, 23 October 2005. wcponline.com.
- A 46,000 m3/day RO plant was contracted and commissioned in 1984 at Ras Abu Jarjur, using DuPont hollow fine-fibre seawater membranes on high-brackish well-water feed, at over US$3,000 per m3 of capacity, still operating after a major refurbishment in the early nineties.
- Electricity and Water Authority, Our Journey. ewa.bh.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
Under 1984, commissioning of new desalination capacity including Ras Abu Jarjur at 10 million imperial gallons a day; under 2006, Ras Abu Jarjur capacity increased to 16.5 million imperial gallons a day. Coordinates are left blank because the site is not mapped in OpenStreetMap and no source consulted gives a usable position.