Ghadir Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment, 50,000 m3/day (existing plant) in Lebanon.
In tender
The record
- Country
- Lebanon
- Location
- Beirut
- Coordinates
- 33.790, 35.480
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment
- Capacity
- 50,000 m3/day (existing plant)
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- In tender
- Owner or client
- Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR), executing agency
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Islamic Development Bank (Istisna'a financing) and European Investment Bank for the expansion and upgrade
- Award or start year
- 1998
- Commissioned
- 1998 (existing plant)
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 1998
Existing Al-Ghadir plant built at a cost of about EUR 7.5 million
- 2014
EIB approves financing of EUR 146.5 million for rehabilitation and extension
- 2016
Islamic Development Bank loan approved
- 2018
Lebanese parliament ratifies the loan agreements
- 2021-07
Daraj reports no construction started and the plant not functioning
- 2025-05
IsDB-financed international tender issued by CDR for design, construction and operation of the Phase I expansion and upgrade (bids due 24 June 2025)
Sources
3 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Daraj, No hope yet for Lebanon's most polluted river, 13 July 2021. daraj.media.
- Islamic Development Bank, Design, Construction and Operation of the Expansion and Upgrade of Al-Ghadir Wastewater Treatment Plant Project, Phase I (specific procurement notice, 8 May 2025, financing LBN1017-48/03967). isdb.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.