Local contractor Hassan Allam Holding has been awarded a contract to build an 80,000 cubic metre a day (cm/d) plant at New Mansoura in Egypt.

Hassan Allam will build the plant in partnership with US-based Fluence. The reverse osmosis (RO) plant will provide potable water for two million inhabitants of New Mansoura City and neighbouring towns.

Hassan Allam was awarded a handful of contracts for local water and wastewater projects in 2018. The first of these was for the project to build a 1,000,000 cm/d agricultural runoff treatment plant in partnership with UAE-based Metito.

In May, the local contractor was awarded a contract to build a 250,000 cm/d wastewater plant in the New Capital development just outside Cairo. In the same week, Hassan Allam was awarded a contract to develop another wastewater plant in partnership with France’s Veolia. The joint venture will build a 33,000 cm/d wastewater treatment plant and an 85-kilometre collection network in the Sharqia governorate.