Kuwait to Build New Water Pumping Plant

The Ministry of Electricity and Water in Kuwait has contracted ABB to construct and rehabilitate the Mina Abdullah water pumping plant.

Under the $148m contract, the company will design, supply, install, commission and test the electromechanical package for the new pumping plant.

The Swiss-based company will also integrate 23 water plants into a newly supplied national control centre.

The facility, expected to be completed by 2013, will pump about 1.5 million cubic metres of water every day from two desalination plants, more than doubling the emirate’s fresh water supply.

The Ahmadiah Group, the local consortium partner for the project, will carry out the civil works.