Erbil Emergency Water Supply Project
Conveyance + treatment, 480,000 m3/day (20,000 m3/hour); 100,000 m3 of storage at the distribution hub; 200 km of spiral pipe and 280 km of ethylene pipe in Iraq.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Iraq
- Location
- Erbil
- Coordinates
- 36.352, 43.786
- Technology
- Conveyance + treatment
- Capacity
- 480,000 m3/day (20,000 m3/hour); 100,000 m3 of storage at the distribution hub; 200 km of spiral pipe and 280 km of ethylene pipe
- Capital cost
- US$480 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Kurdistan Regional Government
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Erbil Water Directorate
- Finance
- Kurdistan Regional Government
- Award or start year
- 2024
- Commissioned
- 2025-07
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2024-07
construction began
- 2024-09
foundation stone laid by Prime Minister Masrour Barzani
- 2025-07
first phase inaugurated, serving about 152,000 subscribers
- 2025-12
target for full completion
Sources
3 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Kurdistan24, Erbil Launches Emergency Water Project to Serve 152,000 Residents. kurdistan24.net.
- Investment of nearly US$480 million by the Kurdistan Regional Government; 480,000 m3/day on completion and 20,000 m3/hour delivered across the city; storage of 100,000 m3 at the distribution hub in Seberan; intake on the Great Zab at Kawrgosk village; 200 km of spiral pipe and 280 km of ethylene pipe; construction began 20 July 2024, foundation stone laid 8 September 2024, first phase inaugurated 20 July 2025 serving about 152,000 subscribers, full completion expected end 2025. Kurdistan24, From Scarcity to Surplus. kurdistan24.net.
- 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.
Reports the system drawing 480,000 m3/day from the Great Zab alongside the existing Ifraz 1, 2 and 3 plants, four dedicated pipeline networks, and nearly 1,000 groundwater wells in central Erbil decommissioned after the launch. This second report dates the inauguration to 8 September 2024, which the first report gives as the foundation-stone date. Coordinates are the Kawrgosk intake locality from OpenStreetMap.