Bahr El-Baqar Wastewater Treatment
Wastewater treatment + reuse, 5.6M m3/day (state and Guinness); 5.0M m3/day (Acciona and Arab Fund) in Egypt.
Operational
Landmark Agricultural drainage treated at a scale nothing else matches, to irrigate reclaimed land in Sinai.
The record
- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- Port Said
- Coordinates
- 30.900, 32.200
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + reuse
- Capacity
- 5.6M m3/day (state and Guinness); 5.0M m3/day (Acciona and Arab Fund)
- Capital cost
- US$739 m contractual value (Arab Contractors project page); the inauguration report gives EGP 20 bn
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Armed Forces Engineering Authority
- Contractor
- Orascom / Arab Contractors
- Operator
- Orascom Construction (10-year O&M from December 2021)
- Finance
- Government
- Award or start year
- 2021
- Commissioned
- 2021-09
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 2021-09
Plant inaugurated on 27 September 2021, four treatment lines of 1.25 million m3/day
- 2021-12
Orascom Construction begins ten-year operation and maintenance contract
Sources
6 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Egyptian Streets, inauguration report, 27 Sep 2021. egyptianstreets.com.
- (four lines of 1.25 million m3/day; EGP 20 billion; Arab Contractors and Orascom Construction joint venture).
- Orascom Construction project page for the O&M term.
- Capacity is disputed: the state, the contractors and Guinness use 5.6 million m3/day, while Acciona, the Arab Fund and Egypt's Minister of Planning use 5.0 million.
- Four treatment lines of 1.25 million give 5.0; four intake buildings of 1.4 million give 5.6. Arab Contractors, Bahr El-Baqar project page. arabcont.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
contractual value 739 million US$, completed 2021.