ACWA Wins Two Saudi Water Contracts

Dubai’s ACWA Emirates has received two contracts for membrane-based water and wastewater projects in Saudi Arabia.

ACWA will carry out a fast-track irrigation water project in Riyadh, which will provide 11,000m³ of water per day by combining groundwater and treated wastewater at the Princess Noura Bint Abdul Rahman University for Women, reports www.desalination.biz.

Under the project, ACWA will build a reverse-osmosis desalination plant to treat the water from two wells 1,700m deep and access the saline aquifer that lies beneath the city.

ACWA also received a contract for the construction of a 12,000m³ per day wastewater treatment and reuse plant from the Ministry of Finance.

The plant will be built in Al Shumaisi in the west of the country, and will use ACWA’s Memtreat membrane bioreactor technology.