Sanaa Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment + reuse, 50,000 m3/day design capacity in Yemen.
The record
- Country
- Yemen
- Location
- Sanaa
- Coordinates
- 15.490, 44.230
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + reuse
- Capacity
- 50,000 m3/day design capacity
- Capital cost
- US$45 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- National Water and Sanitation Authority
- Contractor
- VINCI Construction Grands Projets, as part of a consortium
- Operator
- National Water and Sanitation Authority
- Finance
- OPEC Fund for International Development loan of US$13.00 million, Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, and the Government of Yemen
- Award or start year
- 1995
- Commissioned
- 2000-05
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 1995-12
OPEC Fund approves the Sanaa Sewage Treatment Project loan on 7 December
- 1996-11
Loan agreement signed on 5 November
- 1997-11
Construction starts
- 2000-05
Works complete
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.
- OPEC Fund for International Development, Sanaa Sewage Treatment Project. opecfund.org.
- Approved 07.12.1995, signed 05.11.1996, status Completed, executing agency the National Water and Sanitation Authority, co-financiers AFESD and Government, OPEC Fund contribution US$13.00 million, total project cost US$45.03 million; the project provides wastewater disposal for about 30,000 households and on completion the treatment capacity will be boosted to 50,000 m3 per day.
- VINCI Construction Grands Projets, Wastewater treatment plant and intake collector, Sanaa, Yemen. vinci-construction-projets.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.
Client the National Water and Sanitation Authority; project management MISR Consulting Engineers; the design was by consulting engineering firm Howard Humphreys; implementation dates November 1997 to May 2000; scope included a 200,000 m3 storage pond for irrigation, a 4 MW backup power station, 190,000 m3 of earthworks and 22,000 m3 of concrete. Coordinates left blank: the only candidate feature in OpenStreetMap carries no name tag. Sanaa is under Ansar Allah authority and the present operating entity is not established. Current operating condition after 2015 was not established from any source opened, and the stage records the plant as commissioned rather than as verified running today. Coordinates are the OpenStreetMap wastewater plant in Bani Al-Harith north of Sanaa, the only one mapped around the city, given to two decimals because the feature is unnamed.