North Balqa Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment + reuse, 36,000 m3/day at first, expandable to 54,000 m3/day by 2042; about 13 million m3/year of effluent treated to irrigation standards, discharged to the King Talal Dam lake and reused for irrigation in the Jordan Valley below it, freeing freshwater for drinking supply; replaces an overloaded existing plant in Jordan.
Awarded
The record
- Country
- Jordan
- Location
- Balqa, near King Talal Dam
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + reuse
- Capacity
- 36,000 m3/day at first, expandable to 54,000 m3/day by 2042; about 13 million m3/year of effluent treated to irrigation standards, discharged to the King Talal Dam lake and reused for irrigation in the Jordan Valley below it, freeing freshwater for drinking supply; replaces an overloaded existing plant
- Capital cost
- EUR 75 m AFD financing package (AFD, December 2020) converted at EUR 0.8755 per US$ (World Bank official exchange rate, euro area, 2020 average); financing, not the total project cost
- Stage
- Awarded
- Owner or client
- Water Authority of Jordan
- Contractor
- Passavant Energy & Environment (Drake and Scull International), design, build and one year of operation
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- French Development Agency financing package of EUR 75 million, including a EUR 15 million EU Neighbourhood Investment Platform grant
- Award or start year
- 2020
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-10-19.
History
- 2020-12
AFD and the Jordanian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation sign grant agreements on 10 December for the Balqa project
- 2025-04
Passavant awarded the design, build and operate contract by the Water Authority of Jordan, valued at JOD 41.5 million
- 2026-04
French ambassador and a World Bank representative visit the site
Sources
6 references
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- AFD, A 20 Million Euros grant to support the expansion and rehabilitation of municipal wastewater collection and treatment systems in Balqa and Ramtha, 10 December 2020 (Wayback Machine copy of afd.fr). web.archive.org.
- EUR 75 million AFD package with a EUR 15 million EU grant; new plant near King Talal Dam of 36,000 m3/day expandable to 54,000 m3/day by 2042; effluent discharged to the dam lake and then contributing to agricultural irrigation in the Jordan Valley downstream; 13 million m3/year treated to irrigation standards.
- Drake and Scull International, press release, 28 April 2025. feeds.dfm.ae.
- Passavant awarded the design, construction and operation contract by the Water Authority of Jordan, valued at JOD 41.5 million, financed by AFD and EU-NIP, with the treated effluent transferred to King Talal Dam to support agricultural reuse in the Jordan Valley.
- ICE Amman, Launch of the North Balqa wastewater treatment plant project (28 April 2026, citing Khaberni News; secondary). ice.it.
- 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.
A site visit by the French ambassador and a World Bank representative; no construction progress figure was found.