Greater Beirut Water Supply
Conveyance + treatment, 250,000 m3/day in Lebanon.
Under construction
The record
- Country
- Lebanon
- Location
- Beirut
- Coordinates
- 33.890, 35.500
- Technology
- Conveyance + treatment
- Capacity
- 250,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$370 million
- Stage
- Under construction
- Owner or client
- Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) and Beirut and Mount Lebanon Water Establishment (BMLWE), under the Ministry of Energy and Water
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- World Bank IBRD loan US$200 million, BMLWE US$140 million, Government of Lebanon US$30 million
- Award or start year
- 2010
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 2010-12
World Bank approves US$200 million IBRD loan (16 December 2010)
- 2012-12
Loan becomes effective (4 December 2012)
- 2025-01
Implementation status report: 24 km Awali conveyor tunnel fully excavated with lining pending, Wardanieh treatment plant 44% complete, 432 km of distribution pipelines and 11,600 household connections completed
- 2025-04
Revised loan closing date (30 April 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.
- World Bank, Implementation Status and Results Report, Greater Beirut Water Supply Project P103063, archived 15 January 2025. documents1.worldbank.org.
- Bank Information Center, Greater Beirut Water Supply Project (project summary, approval 16 December 2010, total cost US$370 million). bankinformationcenter.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.