Hawar SWRO
Seawater RO, 1 MIGD, expandable (Zawya: to 3 MIGD in later phases), with two 1 MIG ground storage tanks in Bahrain.
In tender
The record
- Country
- Bahrain
- Location
- Hawar Islands
- Coordinates
- 25.650, 50.770
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 1 MIGD, expandable (Zawya: to 3 MIGD in later phases), with two 1 MIG ground storage tanks
- Capital cost
- Lowest bid BD3.23 m (about US$8.6 m; Sparco Engineering, January 2026, MEED), an EPC bid rather than a contract value; BD 0.376 per US$ (World Bank official exchange rate, 2025 average) gives the same US$8.6 m
- Stage
- In tender
- Owner or client
- Electricity and Water Authority (EWA), Bahrain
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Government (EWA EPC contract)
- Award or start year
- 2026
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 2024-04
EWA issues EPC tender for the Hawar SWRO plant
- 2024-08
Five bids received
- 2026-01
Ten bids received for the retendered SWRO plant
- 2026-08
Bids opened for a separate 300 m3/day brackish water RO plant on Hawar
Sources
5 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- EWA, Hawar Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Desalination Plant, updated 22 June 2026. ewa.bh.
- Smart Water Magazine, Five companies bid for Bahrain's Hawar desalination project, 26 August 2024. smartwatermagazine.com.
- MEED, Bahrain receives bids for Hawar desalination plant, 1 September 2026. guest.meed.com.
- Zawya, Bahrain likely to award Hawar SWRO desalination plant in Q1 2026. zawya.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
The register holds whole US$ millions, so the US$8.6 m bid is entered as 9. The conversion rate and its source are given in the budget note.