Tunis Nord Wastewater and Borj Touil Reuse
Wastewater treatment + reuse, Two 2,000 mm mains of 2.5 to 3 km carrying effluent from four plants to a 6 m3/s pumping station, a 6 km sea outfall discharging at 20 m depth, and reuse in the Borj Touil irrigation perimeter in Tunisia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Tunisia
- Location
- Tunis and Ariana
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + reuse
- Capacity
- Two 2,000 mm mains of 2.5 to 3 km carrying effluent from four plants to a 6 m3/s pumping station, a 6 km sea outfall discharging at 20 m depth, and reuse in the Borj Touil irrigation perimeter
- Capital cost
- US$60 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- ONAS
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- ONAS, with the CRDA operating the irrigation pumping station
- Finance
- World Bank and the Global Environment Facility
- Award or start year
- 2021
- Commissioned
- 2021
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2021
Northern Tunis Wastewater Project completed
- 2022-08
World Bank reports 96 per cent of seawater samples meeting bacterial standards and the reopening of Raoued beach
Sources
4 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, Recyclage des eaux usees en Tunisie, une mer plus propre et de l'eau pour les agriculteurs, 30 Aug 2022. banquemondiale.org.
- Northern Tunis Wastewater Project, 60.6 million dollars, completed 2021, financed by the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility; two parallel buried mains from the Choutrana works, the El Hissiene settling basin and a 6 km sea outfall discharging at 20 m depth in the Gulf of Tunis; about 500 farmers at Borj Touil use the recycled water; by 2020, 96 per cent of seawater samples met bacterial standards and the Raoued beach reopened to swimmers.
- ONAS and Agua Services d'Assainissement, SGES Concession Lot 1 Tunis Nord, June 2026. onas.nat.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.
Describes the two parallel reinforced concrete mains of 2,000 mm and 2.5 to 3 km, one carrying Choutrana 2 and Charguia effluent and the other Choutrana 1 and Cotiere Nord, both converging on the CRDA pumping station that feeds the Borj Touil irrigation perimeter, with a 6 m3/s main pumping station and two storage basins upstream of the sea outfall.