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Key facts
- Project
- RO 14,000 – SWRO Process Plant, Second Phase Expansion of the Southern Gaza Desalination Plant
- Client
- UNICEF
- Funded by
- European Union
- Capacity
- 14,000 m³/day (plant total 20,000 m³/day)
- Value
- ILS 43,452,804
MACC designed and built the 14,000 m³/day seawater reverse-osmosis process plant that takes the Southern Gaza Desalination Plant in Deir Al Balah to 20,000 m³/day, for UNICEF with European Union funding.
By mid-2023 the second-phase expansion of the Southern Gaza Desalination Plant in Deir Al Balah was in its supervised trial-operation period, which began in October 2022 after testing and 30 days of automated commissioning. MACC designed and built the expansion under a FIDIC Yellow Book design-build contract with UNICEF, funded by the European Union.
The expansion adds a 14,000 m³/day seawater reverse-osmosis process plant with five trains and isobaric energy recovery, fed by five new beach wells. With it the plant, owned by the Palestinian Water Authority and operated by CMWU, reaches 20,000 m³/day and serves about 250,000 people in the Khan Younis and Rafah governorates.
The works include a main steel-structure process building of about 1,500 m², tanks totalling 1,450 m³, about 3 km of HDPE piping, multimedia and cartridge filtration, post-treatment and chemical dosing, a product-water pumping station, a 250 kW solar PV system, PLC/SCADA, roads and site works.