CASE OVERVIEW
The new facilities will treat the equivalent of the sewage flow originating from a city of 3.35 million inhabitants. A project of this magnitude is unprecedented in the GCC region. All sewage water is treated up to Dubai’s strict irrigation water standards and allows the city to cut back the use of costly desalinated seawater for non-potable use by 700,000,000 litres per day through re-use applications such as irrigation.
The project was completed taking 10 million working hours and using 143,000 cubic metres of reinforced concrete, 24,000 tons of reinforced steel, 2,659 mechanical and engineering equipment and machinery, 700 km of cables and 30 km of pipes. The project handles 21,900 tonnes of solid waste rich in nutrients that make them suitable fertilisers with high international standards and can be used as biofuels: a feature which differentiates green Dubai from other desert cities.
