Al-Jahra Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment + reuse, 86,000 m3/day; the Kuwait environment authority gives a 65,000 m3/day design against about 120,000 m3/day received in Kuwait.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Al-Jahra
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + reuse
- Capacity
- 86,000 m3/day; the Kuwait environment authority gives a 65,000 m3/day design against about 120,000 m3/day received
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Public Works
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1983
- Commissioned
- 1983
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1983
Al-Jahra plant commissioned
- 2022
listed at 86,000 m3/day, with the Kuwait environment authority reporting a 65,000 m3/day design treating about 120,000 m3/day and effluent used to irrigate crops
Sources
5 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Frontiers in Environmental Science, A detailed perspective of water resource management in a dry and water scarce country: the case in Kuwait (2022). frontiersin.org.
- Table 2 gives eight coastal desalination plants with year, technology and capacity in m3/day.
- Frontiers Table 3 dates Al Jahra to 1983 at 86,000 m3/day.
- Beatona, the Kuwait official environmental portal of the Environment Public Authority, Waste Water Treatment. beatona.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.
Jahra 65,000 m3/day treating 120,000; Riqqa 180,000 m3/day receiving 220,000; all plants tertiary.