Khan Younis Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment + aquifer recharge, 26,800 m3/day nominal at start of operations; phase 1 contracted at 26,600 m3/day in Palestine.
Out of service
The record
- Country
- Palestine
- Location
- Khan Younis
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + aquifer recharge
- Capacity
- 26,800 m3/day nominal at start of operations; phase 1 contracted at 26,600 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$58 million
- Stage
- Out of service
- Owner or client
- Palestinian Water Authority
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Coastal Municipalities Water Utility
- Finance
- Government of Japan and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development through the Islamic Development Bank, implemented by UNDP
- Award or start year
- 2014
- Commissioned
- 2019-11
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2014-02
US$58 million construction agreement signed on 25 February
- 2019-11
Plant starts operations with a nominal capacity of 26,800 m3/day
- 2023-10
All six Gaza wastewater treatment plants reported not functioning as at 22 October
- 2026-04
EU, UN and World Bank assessment reports all six Gaza wastewater treatment plants out of action
Sources
11 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- UNDP release via ReliefWeb, UNDP to build USD 58 million waste water treatment plant in Gaza (25 Feb 2014). reliefweb.int.
- US$58 million agreement signed by the Palestinian Water Authority, Coastal Municipalities Water Utility, Khan Younis Municipality and UNDP; phase 1 at a flow capacity of 26,600 cubic meters per day serving 217,000 residents; more than 9 million cubic meters of treated wastewater to be recharged annually into the local aquifer.
- World Bank, Wastewater Management Sustainability Project appraisal document (P172578, May 2020). documents1.worldbank.org.
- A third plant in the south at Khan Younis, financed by Japan and the Kuwait Fund and implemented by UNDP, started operations in November 2019 with a nominal capacity of 26,800 m3/day.
- The 26,600 and 26,800 figures are both daily rates from different sources and are not annual volumes.
- ACAPS, Palestine: water crisis in the Gaza Strip briefing note (13 Dec 2023). acaps.org.
- As at 22 October 2023 all six wastewater treatment plants were not functioning.
- Condition after October 2023 not established.
- Coordinates not established.
- EU, UN and World Bank, Gaza Strip Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment, April 2026. unsco.unmissions.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.
All six wastewater treatment plants were out of action. Built and operated before October 2023, the plant is recorded as out of service, not as pipeline.