As-Samra Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment + reuse, 267,000 m3/day at commissioning and 365,000 m3/day after the expansion; about 133 million m3/year of treated water for irrigation in Jordan.
The record
- Country
- Jordan
- Location
- Zarqa
- Coordinates
- 32.148, 36.171
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + reuse
- Capacity
- 267,000 m3/day at commissioning and 365,000 m3/day after the expansion; about 133 million m3/year of treated water for irrigation
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Water Authority of Jordan, with the Ministry of Water and Irrigation as offtaker
- Contractor
- Suez Environnement, Infilco Degremont and Morganti, through the Samra Wastewater Treatment Plant Company
- Operator
- Samra Wastewater Treatment Plant Company Limited
- Finance
- Twenty-five year build, operate and transfer concession running to 2037; Millennium Challenge Corporation compact grant of US$93.03 million for the expansion, US$97.88 million disbursed; MIGA guarantees
- Award or start year
- 2006
- Commissioned
- 2008
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2006
MIGA issues guarantees for the first build, operate and transfer project in Jordan, a 25-year concession for a 267,000 m3/day plant serving Amman and Zarqa
- 2008
plant enters service, replacing a waste stabilisation pond system built with USAID support
- 2015
expansion raises hydraulic capacity to 365,000 m3/day
- 2021
plant takes in about 68 per cent of Jordan's wastewater and produces around 130 million m3, feeding King Talal Dam through Wadi Zarqa
Sources
6 references
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- MIGA project page, As-Samra Wastewater Treatment Plant Company Ltd. miga.org.
- 267,000 m3/day average daily capacity serving Amman and Zarqa, a 25-year build, operate and transfer agreement, sponsors Infilco Degremont and Suez Environnement, US$4.1 million of guarantees, described as the first BOT project in Jordan.
- Millennium Challenge Corporation, As-Samra Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion Project. mcc.gov.
- compact amount US$93,030,000, US$97,882,950 disbursed, viability gap funding covering half of construction, concession through 2037, 133 million m3/year of treated water for irrigation, nearly 13 MW from biogas and hydropower covering about 80 per cent of the plant's energy.
- Ministry of Water and Irrigation, National Water Strategy 2023-2040. mwi.gov.jo.
- 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.
Thirteen main dams of about 280 million m3 total storage excluding Karameh; bulk supply shares for 2021; 31 wastewater plants of about 600,000 m3/day. The host is slow and a full download needs a long curl timeout. As-Samra has the largest hydraulic capacity in Jordan at 365,000 m3/day, took in about 68 per cent of national wastewater in 2021 and produced around 130 million m3, discharged into Wadi Zarqa and on to King Talal Dam for irrigation reuse in the Jordan Valley. Coordinates from the OpenStreetMap wastewater plant polygon at Khirbat as-Samra east of Zarqa, the only plant of that size in the area; the feature is unnamed in OpenStreetMap.