ONAS Tunis Nord Sanitation Concession
Wastewater treatment, Choutrana II treatment plant at 40,000 m3/day and 20 tonnes BOD5/day, 52 pumping stations and 1,240 km of sewers in Tunisia.
Awarded
The record
- Country
- Tunisia
- Location
- Tunis and Ariana
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment
- Capacity
- Choutrana II treatment plant at 40,000 m3/day and 20 tonnes BOD5/day, 52 pumping stations and 1,240 km of sewers
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Awarded
- Owner or client
- ONAS
- Contractor
- Agua Services d'Assainissement, a consortium of Maghrebia Technologies and Travaux, Tuniber, Aguas de Portugal and Aguas de Portugal International
- Operator
- Agua Services d'Assainissement
- Finance
- World Bank
- Award or start year
- 2025
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2025-05
First issue of the environmental and social management system for the concession company
- 2026-01
Revision issued on comments from Agua
- 2026-06
Revision G issued on World Bank comments, the contract still described as not yet in effect
Sources
5 references
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- ONAS and Agua Services d'Assainissement, Systeme de Gestion Environnementale et Sociale, Concession d'assainissement collectif Lot 1 Tunis Nord, prepared by RYADA Business Engineering, revision G of 12 June 2026. onas.nat.tn.
- Ten year concession; perimeter is the Choutrana 2 plant of 40,000 m3/day and 20 tonnes BOD5/day, 52 pumping stations and 1,240 km of sewers in the Tunis and Ariana governorates; concession company formed by the Tunisian firms Maghrebia Technologies and Travaux and Tuniber with Aguas de Portugal and Aguas de Portugal International; document prepared against World Bank and IFC performance standards, first issued 10 May 2025 and revised through June 2026 on World Bank comments.
- The document refers to the contract taking effect at a future date and gives no signature date or contract value.
- Instance Generale de Partenariat Public Prive, Concession de l'exploitation d'ouvrages d'assainissement collectif. igppp.tn.
- 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.
Confirms the two lot structure and the intention to concede more than half of ONAS infrastructure.