Islamic Development Bank funds Wadi Dayqah water supply project in Oman

Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has agreed to provide $176m to Wadi Dayqah water supply project in Oman.

The project will supply water to Muscat Governorate from Wadi Dayqah reservoir.

Oman Public Authority for Electricity and Water (PAEW), which is overseeing the project, has already awarded Cairo-based Egyptian Contractors and Partners to build a water transmission line to supply treated water from the Dayqah Dam in Qurayat Wilayat to Deem Reservoir in Al Amerat Wilayat.

Under the RO32.2m ($83m) contract, the company will carry out the first phase of the Wadi Dayqah Water Treatment and Conveyancing Project, which involves the construction of a water treatment plant and pipeline.

Egyptian Contractors and Partners will be responsible for laying 50km of pipeline, as well as construction of a 10,000m³ reservoir and a pumping station.

Wadi Dayqah Dam officially opened in 2012, standing 75m-high and 400m-long across the Wadi Gorge in the Wilayat of Quriyat.

The scheme will supply up to 35 million cubic metres of water per year.

As part of Wadi Dayqah Dam Water Treatment and Conveyancing Project, Oman will also build the main water treatment plant at a cost of RO50m ($129.5m).

The plant is planned to be built near Mazara, approximately three kilometres from the dam, which will have a capacity to process 125,000m³ per day of water.