Veolia wins two UAE contracts

16 January 2008
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, a subsidiary of France’s Veolia Water, has been awarded two contracts worth a total of €22.4m ($33.3m) for wastewater and brackish water treatment and recycling plants in Dubai.

Under the first €12.1m ($18m) contract, Veolia will build a wastewater recycling facility on Palm Jumeirah island. The client is Palm Water, a subsidiary of Nakheel.

The recycling plant will have a capacity of 17,000 cubic metres a day (cm/d) and will be completed in 2008.

Veolia was awarded the second contract by Emaar Properties. The contract, which is worth €10.3m, covers the delivery of the plant which will treat water in a 300,000-cubic-metre artificial lake adjacent to the Burj Dubai Tower. The plant will have capacity of 62,400 cm/d.

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