North Gaza Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment + aquifer recharge, 35,600 m3/day design capacity, with a planned expansion to 65,700 m3/day in Palestine.
Stalled
The record
- Country
- Palestine
- Location
- Beit Lahia
- Coordinates
- 31.506, 34.510
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + aquifer recharge
- Capacity
- 35,600 m3/day design capacity, with a planned expansion to 65,700 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$43 million
- Stage
- Stalled
- Owner or client
- Palestinian Water Authority
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Coastal Municipalities Water Utility
- Finance
- World Bank administered trust funds, with complementary recovery wells, irrigation networks and photovoltaic panels financed by the French Development Agency
- Award or start year
- 2004
- Commissioned
- 2018-03
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2004-09
World Bank approves the North Gaza Emergency Sewage Treatment Project
- 2018-03
Facilities enter full operation
- 2018-06
World Bank project closes on 30 June
- 2023-10
All six Gaza wastewater treatment plants reported not functioning as at 22 October for lack of fuel and electricity
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.
- World Bank, Wastewater Management Sustainability Project appraisal document (P172578, May 2020). documents1.worldbank.org.
- The NGEST project financed the North Gaza Wastewater Management Facilities with a design capacity of about 35,600 m3/day to treat, infiltrate and recover sewage effluent, and the facilities entered full operation in March 2018; the document records the planned expansion to an average capacity of 65,700 m3/day needed after 2025, and the AFD financed complementary works.
- World Bank, project detail P074595. projects.worldbank.org.
- Project cost US$43.05 million; implementing agency the Palestinian Water Authority; closed 30 June 2018. World Bank, NGEST solar power feasibility study (Mar 2016). documents1.worldbank.org.
- Site table gives coordinates 31.5056 N and 34.5102 E, nearest town Jibaliya.
- 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 for lack of fuel and electricity. No source opened establishes the plant's condition after October 2023.