Sulaibiya Wastewater Reuse
Wastewater RO/UF reuse, 600,000 m3/day after expansion (original design 425,000 m3/day) in Kuwait.
Operational
Landmark Municipal sewage pushed through reverse osmosis at 600,000 m3/day, among the largest reuse schemes anywhere.
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Sulaibiya
- Coordinates
- 29.280, 47.800
- Technology
- Wastewater RO/UF reuse
- Capacity
- 600,000 m3/day after expansion (original design 425,000 m3/day)
- Capital cost
- US$390 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Public Works, Kuwait (30-year BOT concession held by Utilities Development Company, a Kharafi and GE Water joint venture)
- Contractor
- Kharafi Group and Ionics (original plant); Kharafi National (expansion to 600,000 m3/day)
- Operator
- Utilities Development Company (Kharafi operates the wastewater plant, Ionics/GE the reclamation plant)
- Finance
- BOT, 30-year concession from July 2002; original plant financed by domestic banks
- Award or start year
- 2002
- Commissioned
- 2004
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 2002-07
Contract awarded and 30-year concession begins
- 2004-11
Construction completed and plant enters operation
- 2010
US$150 million expansion contract awarded to Kharafi National
- 2012-01
Council of Ministers approves expansion to 600,000 m3/day
- 2015-02
GE membrane upgrade for expansion from 375,000 to 600,000 m3/day announced
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.
- MEED, Approval granted for Kuwait wastewater plant expansion, 10 January 2012. meed.com.
- MEED, Sulaibiya sewage plant, 2 May 2017. meed.com.
- GE, Kuwait's Sulaibiya plant to set new global benchmark after upgrade with GE's advanced water reuse technology, 17 February 2015. ge.com.
- WaterWorld, Sulaibiya water reuse project begins full operations, 1 December 2004. waterworld.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.