Doha East Power and Desalination
Thermal MSF + power, 42 MIGD (189,000 m3/day) in Kuwait.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Doha
- Coordinates
- 29.368, 47.796
- Technology
- Thermal MSF + power
- Capacity
- 42 MIGD (189,000 m3/day)
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1978
- Commissioned
- 1978
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1978
Doha East station enters service with a rated distillation capacity of 42 MIGD
- 2006
ministry records still give 42 MIGD, about 189,000 m3/day, of multi-stage flash capacity on the site
Sources
6 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Alfadhli and Alhashemi, Environmental Impact of Desalination Plant Saline Water on Kuwait Bay, Journal of Engineering Research and Application 9 (2), 2019. ijera.com.
- Table 1, citing MEW 2006, lists the installed distillation plants in MIGD and million m3/day.
- 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.
- Al-Ruwaih, Alhumoud and Al-Mutairi, Quality of Potable Water in Kuwait, American Journal of Environmental Sciences 6 (3), 2010. thescipub.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.
Distillation units of 4.4, 7.2 and 12.5 MIGD; total distillation capacity 419.1 MIGD including high temperature operation, citing MEW 1994 and 2008. Al-Ruwaih dates a 42 million gallon a day plant at Doha to 1978.