Sanaa Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment + reuse, Designed for 25,000 m3/day originally (FAO AQUASTAT, which reports the plant receiving more than 50,000 m3/day); raised to 50,000 m3/day by the 1997 to 2000 works (OPEC Fund) in Yemen.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Yemen
- Location
- Sanaa
- Coordinates
- 15.490, 44.230
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + reuse
- Capacity
- Designed for 25,000 m3/day originally (FAO AQUASTAT, which reports the plant receiving more than 50,000 m3/day); raised to 50,000 m3/day by the 1997 to 2000 works (OPEC Fund)
- Capital cost
- US$45.03 m total project cost (OPEC Fund), co-financed by the OPEC Fund (US$13.00 m), the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development and the Government; the value of the VINCI consortium's contract is not disclosed
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- National Water and Sanitation Authority
- Contractor
- VINCI Construction Grands Projets, as part of a consortium
- Operator
- National Water and Sanitation Authority
- Finance
- OPEC Fund for International Development loan of US$13.00 million, Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, and the Government of Yemen
- Award or start year
- 1995
- Commissioned
- 2000-05
Record last checked 2026-10-12.
History
- 1995-12
OPEC Fund approves the Sanaa Sewage Treatment Project loan on 7 December
- 1996-11
Loan agreement signed on 5 November
- 1997-11
Construction starts
- 2000-05
Works complete
Sources
10 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- OPEC Fund for International Development, Sanaa Sewage Treatment Project. opecfund.org.
- Approved 07.12.1995, signed 05.11.1996, status Completed, executing agency the National Water and Sanitation Authority, co-financiers AFESD and Government, OPEC Fund contribution US$13.00 million, total project cost US$45.03 million; the project provides wastewater disposal for about 30,000 households and on completion the treatment capacity will be boosted to 50,000 m3 per day.
- VINCI Construction Grands Projets, Wastewater treatment plant and intake collector, Sanaa, Yemen. vinci-construction-projets.com.
- Client the National Water and Sanitation Authority; project management MISR Consulting Engineers; the design was by consulting engineering firm Howard Humphreys; implementation dates November 1997 to May 2000; scope included a 200,000 m3 storage pond for irrigation, a 4 MW backup power station, 190,000 m3 of earthworks and 22,000 m3 of concrete.
- Coordinates left blank: the only candidate feature in OpenStreetMap carries no name tag.
- Sanaa is under Ansar Allah authority and the present operating entity is not established.
- Current operating condition after 2015 was not established from any source opened, and the stage records the plant as commissioned rather than as verified running today.
- Coordinates are the OpenStreetMap wastewater plant in Bani Al-Harith north of Sanaa, the only one mapped around the city, given to two decimals because the feature is unnamed.
- FAO AQUASTAT, country profile: Yemen (2008 edition, archived). web.archive.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.
States that the Sanaa plant was designed to treat 25,000 m3/day and receives more than 50,000 m3/day (as recorded by the fact-check, Oct 2026).