Ajman Sewerage Concession (ASPCL)
Wastewater treatment + reuse, Treatment plant 140,000 m3/day; 450 km of sewers serving 175,000 properties; about 40 per cent of treated water reused for irrigation in United Arab Emirates.
Operational
The record
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
- Location
- Ajman
- Coordinates
- 25.430, 55.560
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + reuse
- Capacity
- Treatment plant 140,000 m3/day; 450 km of sewers serving 175,000 properties; about 40 per cent of treated water reused for irrigation
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ajman Sewerage (Private) Company Limited: BESIX 40%, Government of Ajman 40%, Veolia 20%
- Contractor
- BESIX
- Operator
- Moalajah, a BESIX and Veolia joint venture
- Finance
- 100 per cent private finance under a design, build, finance and maintain concession running to 2034
- Award or start year
- 2006
- Commissioned
- 2007
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2003
Construction of the network and treatment plant begins
- 2006
Concession granted by the Government of Ajman, running to 2034
- 2007
Operations begin, the first wastewater public-private partnership in the Middle East
- 2018
Treatment plant upgraded by 40,000 m3/day to 140,000 m3/day
- 2019-07
BESIX awarded a sludge digestion and biogas-to-power extension, a first in the UAE
Sources
5 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- BESIX, Ajman Sewerage, a textbook example of wastewater management in the Middle East, Activity Report 2019, pages 84-85. annualreport.besix.com.
- ASPCL brings together BESIX 40%, the Government of Ajman 40% and Veolia 20%; concession granted in 2006 and running to 2034 with exclusive rights to finance, build, own, operate and maintain the emirate's entire wastewater infrastructure; construction 2003-2007 and operations 2007-2034; 450 km of sewers serving 175,000 properties; treatment plant capacity 140,000 m3/day, upgraded by 40,000 m3/day in 2018; 40 per cent of treated water reused for unrestricted landscape irrigation; in July 2019 BESIX was awarded a sludge digestion and biogas-to-power extension, a first in the UAE. BESIX Concessions & Assets, Ajman Sewerage Private Company Limited case study. besix-concessions.com.
- Describes the scheme as the first successful wastewater PPP in the region; before 2001 Ajman had no sewerage treatment infrastructure and wastewater went to an open lagoon.
- Veolia Middle East, Moalajah FZC, Ajman UAE. near-middle-east.veolia.com.
- 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.
Moalajah established 2006 as a Veolia and BESIX joint venture; an earlier asset snapshot of 310 km of gravity sewers, 21 pumping stations and a 75,000 m3/day plant. Coordinates are the Al Jurf treatment plant site in Ajman from OpenStreetMap, given to two decimals because the feature is unnamed and the concession also covers the collection network.