2005 - 2006 - Pinsent Masons Water Yearbook 2012

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES PART 2: COUNTRY ANALYSIS
Sewage treatment works projects
All of the Emirates are considering the installation of comprehensive sewerage networks and sewage
treatment works so as to optimise the retention of effluents. In Abu Dhabi, the 1982 Mafraq sewage
treatment works served 330,000 people. It was upgraded to handle 210,000m 3 per day by the end of
1999 and 260,000m 3 by 2001. Sharajah’s Al-Awir sewage treatment works underwent an expansion
from 260 to 520m 3 per day at a cost of US$54 million in 1997.
The Abu Dhabi Company for Sewage Services was formed in June 2005 as a public shareholding
company, with its shares held by Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (Adwea). The company
will own all drainage facilities — including pipe network, pumping stations, treatment plants,
maintenance and development of the sewage system in Abu Dhabi. Adwea may sell or cede all or
some of its shares in the company through a public or private offer or auction.
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