Infrastructure

Madinah 3 wastewater plant kicks off commercial operations

By Priyanka Raina

Posted on April 7, 2025

The Madinah plant is said to have treated more than five million cu/m of wastewater during Ramadan and converted it into water suitable for industrial and agricultural use

The Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC) has announced that its US $257mn utility project – Madinah 3 Wastewater plant has commenced commercial operations. The facility boasts a 200,000cu/m per day capacity which is expandable to 375,000cu/m per day in emergency situations.

The company said that it will also build 23km of recycled water collectors for irrigation, three storage tanks and their respective pumping stations. The treatment plant will have a collection well and pumping station, pre-treatment, biological reactor, sludge line, and recycled water pumping station.

The key project was developed by a Spanish infrastructure major ACCIONA with local firms – International Water Distribution Company (Tawzea) and Tamasuk as partners. SWPC said the project has been implemented on a build, own, operate and transfer (BOOT) model. One of the three new WWTP build by ACCIONA in Saudi Arabia.

As per the purchase deal with the consortium, ACCIONA will be responsible for the facility’s development, design, financing, construction, operation and maintenance over a 25-year period from the date of commercial operations.

The Madinah plant is said to have treated more than five million cu/m of wastewater during Ramadan and converted it into water suitable for industrial and agricultural use, thus contributing to reducing the environmental impact and improving the quality of life for its residents, said a statement from SWPC.

Last year ACCIONA celebrated it key safety milestone at the Madinah 3 project site clocking two million man-hours without Lost-Time Injuries. Hassan Allam Construction was responsible for the civil works of the plant. The waste treatment plant has a collection well and pumping station, pre-treatment installation, biological reactor, sludge line, and recycled water pumping station, it stated.