Khan Younis Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment + aquifer recharge, 26,800 m3/day nominal at start of operations; phase 1 contracted at 26,600 m3/day in Palestine.
Stalled
The record
- Country
- Palestine
- Location
- Khan Younis
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + aquifer recharge
- Capacity
- 26,800 m3/day nominal at start of operations; phase 1 contracted at 26,600 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$58 million
- Stage
- Stalled
- Owner or client
- Palestinian Water Authority
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Coastal Municipalities Water Utility
- Finance
- Government of Japan and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development through the Islamic Development Bank, implemented by UNDP
- Award or start year
- 2014
- Commissioned
- 2019-11
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2014-02
US$58 million construction agreement signed on 25 February
- 2019-11
Plant starts operations with a nominal capacity of 26,800 m3/day
- 2023-10
All six Gaza wastewater treatment plants reported not functioning as at 22 October
Sources
7 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- UNDP release via ReliefWeb, UNDP to build USD 58 million waste water treatment plant in Gaza (25 Feb 2014). reliefweb.int.
- US$58 million agreement signed by the Palestinian Water Authority, Coastal Municipalities Water Utility, Khan Younis Municipality and UNDP; phase 1 at a flow capacity of 26,600 cubic meters per day serving 217,000 residents; more than 9 million cubic meters of treated wastewater to be recharged annually into the local aquifer.
- World Bank, Wastewater Management Sustainability Project appraisal document (P172578, May 2020). documents1.worldbank.org.
- A third plant in the south at Khan Younis, financed by Japan and the Kuwait Fund and implemented by UNDP, started operations in November 2019 with a nominal capacity of 26,800 m3/day.
- The 26,600 and 26,800 figures are both daily rates from different sources and are not annual volumes.
- 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.