Al-Khafsa Water Treatment Plant
Water treatment plant, About 400,000 m3/day average production in Syria.
The record
- Country
- Syria
- Location
- Al-Khafsa
- Coordinates
- 36.188, 38.010
- Technology
- Water treatment plant
- Capacity
- About 400,000 m3/day average production
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- —
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Aleppo Water Establishment
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- —
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2015-11
Air strike hits the plant, cutting piped supply to over two million people
- 2016-01
Plant deliberately shut down on 16 January
- 2016-03
Operations resume on 4 March after 48 days
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.
- UNICEF, Water restored to Aleppo after a 48-day deliberate shutdown of water facility (6 Mar 2016), via ReliefWeb. reliefweb.int.
- The al-Khafseh facility is one of the most important in Syria, producing an average of 400 million litres of drinking water daily; drawing raw water from the Euphrates River it is the sole source of drinking water for over two million people for the entire city of Aleppo and eastern areas of the governorate; an air strike hit the plant in November 2015, it was deliberately shut down on 16 January 2016, and operations resumed on 4 March 2016. ESCWA and BGR, Inventory of Shared Water Resources in Western Asia, Chapter 1, Euphrates River Basin (2013). waterinventory.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.
Records that since 2006 Aleppo also draws its water from the Euphrates through a pipeline running west from Lake Assad. The 400 million litres a day is a reported average production, not a contracted annual volume, and is not annualised here. Coordinates left blank: no plant-level feature exists in OpenStreetMap. Transliteration varies across UNICEF documents between al-Khafseh, Alkhafsa and Al Khafsa. A later UNICEF Syria story of 26 September 2021 on rehabilitating the plant's sedimentation tanks is bot-walled and was not opened, so nothing from it is carried here. Current operating condition was not established from any source opened. Coordinates from the OpenStreetMap industrial site named محطة معالجة مياه شرب حلب, the Aleppo drinking water treatment station, in the Al-Khafsa nahiya of Manbij district.