New Alamein Desalination
Seawater RO, 150,000 m3/day in Egypt.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- New Alamein
- Coordinates
- 30.830, 28.950
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 150,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Egyptian Ministry of Defence
- Contractor
- Aqualia Infrastructure and FCC Construccion
- Operator
- Aqualia
- Finance
- Government
- Award or start year
- 2016
- Commissioned
- 2019-12
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2015-11
Construction begins
- 2016
EPC contract with the Egyptian Ministry of Defence
- 2019-12
Construction completed
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.
- DG Jones & Partners, SWRO Plant, El Alamein. dgjonesworld.com.
- Capacity 150,000 m3/day serving about 1 million inhabitants; project value EGP 2.8 billion; main contractor Aqualia Infrastructure S.A.; location Marsa Matrouh; from November 2015 to December 2019; DG Jones provided contract administration.
- Smart Water Magazine, Public-private collaboration and technological efficiency, keys to facing water scarcity in Egypt, 6 March 2020. smartwatermagazine.com.
- 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.
Aqualia's El Alamein plant at 150,000 m3/day supplying more than one million inhabitants of northern Egypt. The EPC contract, including a year of operation and maintenance, is reported as awarded by the Egyptian Ministry of Defence in 2016.