Gaza Central Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment, 60,000 m3/day design capacity in Palestine.
Stalled
The record
- Country
- Palestine
- Location
- Al-Bureij
- Coordinates
- 31.427, 34.419
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment
- Capacity
- 60,000 m3/day design capacity
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Stalled
- Owner or client
- Palestinian Water Authority
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Coastal Municipalities Water Utility
- Finance
- German Government through KfW, EUR 85 million grant covering this plant and the reconstruction of the Sheikh Ajleen plant
- Award or start year
- 2021
- Commissioned
- 2021-04
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2021-04
Plant put into operation on 28 April
- 2023-10
All six Gaza wastewater treatment plants reported not functioning as at 22 October
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.
- World Bank, Wastewater Management Sustainability Project appraisal document (P172578, May 2020). documents1.worldbank.org.
- Wastewater facilities in Central Gaza (Al-Bureij) financed by KfW with a design capacity for 60,000 m3/day, entering full operation from June 2020 after a commissioning period, followed by a five-year KfW-financed operational contract.
- WAFA, Gaza's central wastewater treatment plant put into operation (30 Apr 2021). english.wafa.ps.
- Plant put into operation on 28 April 2021; the new Gaza Central plant and the reconstruction of the existing Sheikh Ajleen plant were financed by the German Government through KfW with a grant of EUR 85 million, so that figure is not a single-plant budget.
- ACAPS, Palestine: water crisis in the Gaza Strip briefing note (13 Dec 2023). acaps.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.
As at 22 October 2023 all six wastewater treatment plants were not functioning. Condition after October 2023 not established. Coordinates not established. Coordinates from the OpenStreetMap wastewater plant named محطة معالجة مياه الصرف وادي غزة, Wadi Gaza Wastewater Treatment Plant, which stands at Al-Bureij in the Deir al-Balah governorate and is the Central Gaza plant of the World Bank appraisal.