Disi Water Conveyance (BOT)
Fossil groundwater conveyance, 100 MCM/yr in Jordan.
Operational
Landmark Jordan bet its capital's supply on fossil water, pumped 325 km north under a 25-year concession.
The record
- Country
- Jordan
- Location
- Mudawwara–Amman
- Coordinates
- 29.750, 36.050
- Technology
- Fossil groundwater conveyance
- Capacity
- 100 MCM/yr
- Capital cost
- US$988 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Water & Irrigation / DIWACO
- Developer
- GAMA Energy
- Contractor
- GAMA Power Systems
- Operator
- Disi Amman Operation Maintenance LLC (Suez)
- Finance
- OPIC US$250 m / EIB about US$100 m / Proparco US$100 m; government grant US$300 m
- Award or start year
- 2013
- Commissioned
- 2013-07
Record last checked 2026-09-15.
History
- 2007
Concession awarded to GAMA
- 2009-05
Financing signed on 15 May 2009, OPIC, EIB and Proparco
- 2009-06
Construction starts
- 2013-07
Inaugurated, 100 MCM/yr over 325 km
Sources
9 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (OPIC), Disi Water non-confidential project information. dfc.gov.
- (325 km pipeline, 55 wells, 100 MCM/yr, 25-year BOT, total project cost US$987.6 million, OPIC loan US$250 million).
- GAMA and GE press release, 8 July 2009. ge.com.
- (US$1 billion project; US$300 million ministry grant; US$455 million OPIC, EIB and Proparco debt).
- Proparco project page. proparco.fr.
- MEED, 2 May 2017. meed.com.
- (construction 2009 to 2013; about 30 per cent of Amman's needs).
- PMI, PM Network, Under the Mega-Microscope, May 2013. pmi.org.
- 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.
GAMA Power Systems is named as the project's engineering, procurement and construction contractor.