Ambitious plans to join two oceans and transport billions of cubic metres of water per year have finally moved forward with a tender launched by Jordan’s government.
The Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MWI)/Jordan Valley Authority (JVA) is seeking prequalification documents for the first phase of the Red Sea – Dead Sea project on a Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis.
This follows the signing of a memorandum of understanding signed in December 2013 at the World Bank and a bi-lateral agreement signed in February 2015.
The project will include a 180-killometre pipeline to transfer water and desalination plant brine from the Read Sea to the Dead Sea.
Included in the plans is a 65 million m3/year desalination plant, which will eventually be expanded to 85 million m3/year. Assuming 340 days per year operation, this will amount to 191,200 m3/day to 250,000 m3/day, respectively.
The plant will include feedwater pre-treatment, product water post-treatment systems and a desalinated water storage reservoir.
