Jebel Ali K-Station SWRO
Seawater RO, 40 MIGD (about 182,000 m3/day) in United Arab Emirates.
Operational
The record
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
- Location
- Jebel Ali, Dubai
- Coordinates
- 25.059, 55.117
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 40 MIGD (about 182,000 m3/day)
- Capital cost
- AED 897 m (2022), converted at AED 3.6725 per US$ (World Bank official exchange rate, 2022 average)
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA)
- Contractor
- Consortium led by Acciona Agua with Belhasa Six Construct (BESIX)
- Operator
- DEWA
- Finance
- Utility capital programme, AED 897 million (US$244 million at 3.6725)
- Award or start year
- 2022
- Commissioned
- 2022
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2021-03
Plant starts supplying water to the Dubai network
- 2022-04
DEWA reports the plant 96.5 per cent complete at AED 897 million
- 2022
Plant completed, DEWA's first desalination plant with dissolved air flotation pre-treatment
Sources
2 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- UAE Media Office quoting DEWA, DEWA completes 96.50% of the SWRO water desalination plant in Jebel Ali at a cost of around AED 897 million (29 April 2022). mediaoffice.ae.
- 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.
40 MIGD plant awarded to a consortium led by Acciona Agua and Belhasa Six Construct; water to the network from March 2021, completion expected in the second quarter of 2022; first DEWA use of dissolved air flotation pre-treatment, at K station, with a dual media filter, two-pass RO and energy recovery devices at 96 per cent efficiency; DEWA installed desalination capacity 490 MIGD against a 2021 peak demand of 380 MIGD, with a target of 303 MIGD of SWRO by 2030.