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Abu Dhabi’s SWS to build wastewater treatment plant in Uzbekistan: A consortium including Abu Dhabi Sustainable Water Solutions (SWS), Japan’s Marubeni Corporation, and French-based utility company Suez inked a joint development agreement with Uzbekistan’s Investment, Industry, and Trade Ministry and Uzsuvtaminot to develop a USD 1 bn wastewater treatment plant in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, according to the Abu Dhabi Media Office.
About the plant: The plant will treat up to 1.5 mn cbm of water daily, serving around three mn people, making it the largest wastewater treatment plant in Uzbekistan and the CIS region. It replaces two existing wastewater treatment plants in the capital.
Timeline: Construction for the plant will kick off in 2026, after which it should kick off operations in 2030. The consortium will lead its development, financing, engineering, procurement, and construction, as well as manage the operation and maintenance for 25 years.
This has been in the works: Abu Dhabi’s SWS and Uzbekistan’s Uzsuvtaminot inked an agreement in May to speed up the establishment of the Tashkent wastewater treatment plant, for which it initially inked an MoU in 2022.
