New Cairo Wastewater Plant
Wastewater treatment, 250,000 m3/day in Egypt.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- New Cairo
- Coordinates
- 30.030, 31.470
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment
- Capacity
- 250,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA)
- Contractor
- Orasqualia (Orascom Construction and Aqualia 50:50 joint venture)
- Operator
- Orasqualia
- Finance
- PPP, design, build, finance and operate (private finance)
- Award or start year
- 2009
- Commissioned
- 2013
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 2009-06
Orasqualia awarded Egypt's first PPP wastewater concession for New Cairo (EGP 2.646 billion over the concession)
- 2013
Plant enters operation
- 2026-05
Orasqualia announces biogas unit to cover 60 to 70% of the plant's electricity demand
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.
- Orascom Construction project page, New Cairo Wastewater Treatment Plant. orascom.com.
- WaterWorld, OCI-Aqualia joint venture awarded New Cairo wastewater public-private-partnership project, 10 June 2009. waterworld.com.
- Smart Water Magazine, Orasqualia to build biogas unit at Egypt wastewater plant, 13 May 2026. 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.