Sewa opens new UAE desalination facility

The Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (Sewa) has opened a new AED446m ($121m) water desalination facility in Hamriyah that is capable of processing 20 million gallons of water a day.

The Hamriyah Station for Power Generation and Water Desalination has been designed with a capacity of 2,500MW and 140 million gallons a day of water to meet present and future requirements for power and water in Sharjah city.

It will provide water to to meet increasing demand in Zubair, Rahmaniyah, Saja’a, Shunoof and other areas. It will also meet the water requirements of the industrial expansions by Hamriyah Free Zone Authority and Emirates Industrial City.

The authority has also carried out a AED140m project ($38m) for construction of deep sea water intake and pump house to supply the new plant. It has also carried out a AED50m project ($13.6m) on the 35km Hamriyah to Saja’a main water line to pump the products of the new plant to the water system.

Sewa chairman Rashid Obaid Juma Al Leem said that the execution of the projects was instructed by his highness Dr Shaikh Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi to keep pace with the ongoing industrial and constructional boom witnessed in Sharjah.