FCC Aqualia has been awarded the contract for the operation and maintenance of the two largest wastewater treatment plants in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
FCC Aqualia's water division subsidiary Citizen Services Group is set to manage the wastewater treatment facilities in Hadda and Arana for three years, representing a business portfolio of € 20 million. This is the third contract in Saudi Arabia that has been awarded to Citizen Services Group since it started work on the water network optimisation contract to the east of Riyadh in 2011.
The wastewater treatment plants in Hadda and Arana treat an average water flow of 250,000 m3 and a have a maximum capacity to treat 375,000 m3.
FCC Aqualia will be working in consortium with the local company Alkhorayef Water and Power Company.
Mecca has a stable population of 1.5 million people, growing considerably higher during visits by pilgrims. It is estimated that around 13 million annual visits occur each year and that the maximum sporadic influx throughout the month of Ramadan (during Hajj festivities) is between 4 and 5 million people. This situation creates significant variations in the water flow from the source to the treatment plants.
The consortium between both companies will be jointly responsible for: the operation and maintenance of treatment facilities and units, including workshops, laboratories, electrical installations, service road status, security systems, supply, sanitation and drainage projects within the facilities, environmental maintenance of the facilities, laboratory team and conducting analyses.
The project falls within the framework of the program currently being carried out by Saudi Arabian authorities which aims to transform and modernise the country's water cycle management. The Saudi state water company, National Water Company (NWC), is significantly improving the operation and performance of the sector via international companies specialising in operation and maintenance.
In recent years FCC Aqualia has been selected to carry out various projects in the Middle East. In 2010 it was chosen to optimise the water supply network in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh. The first water management contract in the Middle East awarded to a Spanish company, the contract represented a turning point for the entire sector.
Since January 2012, FCC Aqualia, in consortium with the local company MACE Contractors, has been overseeing the water sanitation and purification in the eastern area of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which stretches 2,400 km in length.
In December last year, the FCC water management division of FCC, in conjunction with the companies EPC and Hyundai Rotem, began to operate in Qatar where it controls the sanitation of the city of Al Dhakira, located in the Qatari east coast, around sixty kilometres from the country's capital, Doha.
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