North Kabd Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment + reuse, 1,000,000 m3/day in Kuwait.
Awarded
Landmark One million m3 a day in a single contract, roughly doubling the treated wastewater Kuwait can produce.
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Kabd
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + reuse
- Capacity
- 1,000,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$3.2 billion
- Stage
- Awarded
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Public Works
- Contractor
- China State Construction Engineering Corporation
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Direct agreement cleared by the Central Agency for Public Tenders; ten-year design, build, operate and maintain contract
- Award or start year
- 2026
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2022
advisory agreement prepared and a consultant appointed for feasibility work
- 2025-10
project announced within a wider Kuwait and China infrastructure package
- 2026-01
Central Agency for Public Tenders clears a direct agreement with CSCEC worth KD998 million for a ten-year design, build, operate and maintain contract
- 2026-07
contract signed at Bayan Palace on 27 July
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.
- Smart Water Magazine, Kuwait awards 3.2 billion dollar Kabd North WWTP contract to China's CSCEC (26 January 2026). smartwatermagazine.com.
- KD998 million, about US$3.2 billion, 1 million m3/day, design, construction, operation and maintenance over ten years, client the Ministry of Public Works.
- People's Daily Online, Chinese company signs major wastewater treatment project in Kuwait (28 July 2026). en.people.cn.
- contract signed 27 July 2026 at Bayan Palace, scope covering collection, transport, treatment and reclaimed water reuse.
- Aquatech, Kuwait expands wastewater facilities with China deal (21 October 2025). aquatechtrade.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.
one million m3/day, advisory work from 2022 and memorandums with China in 2023.