Riqqa Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment + reuse, 180,000 m3/day, receiving about 220,000 m3/day in Kuwait.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Riqqa
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + reuse
- Capacity
- 180,000 m3/day, receiving about 220,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Public Works
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1982
- Commissioned
- 1982
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1982
Riqqa plant commissioned at 180,000 m3/day
- 2022
peer-reviewed survey still lists the site at 180,000 m3/day, with the Kuwait environment authority reporting inflows above design at about 220,000 m3/day
Sources
4 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Beatona, the Kuwait official environmental portal of the Environment Public Authority, Waste Water Treatment. beatona.net.
- Jahra 65,000 m3/day treating 120,000; Riqqa 180,000 m3/day receiving 220,000; all plants tertiary.
- 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.
- 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.
Table 2 gives eight coastal desalination plants with year, technology and capacity in m3/day. Frontiers Table 3 dates Riqqa to 1982 at 180,000 m3/day.