Dubai to get Dh30 billion worth of sewerage system by 2025

The emirate of Dubai plans to have a new deep-tunnel sewerage system costing around Dh30 billion by the year 2025. The construction of the system is part of the emirate's efforts to accommodate any future growth and meet long-term needs for used water collection, treatment, reclamation and disposal.

Dubbed as the 'Development of the Century', the project should save millions of dirhams worth of maintenance costs and contribute towards providing millions of cubic metres of irrigation water towards the benefit of the mega projects set for execution over the next few years in the emirate.

Engineer Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director General of Dubai Municipality, has said that the authority has finalised the landmark multi-phase development's feasibility studies where the construction work should start between 2019 and 2025, with its initial costs estimated at Dh30 billion.

A consultancy is now conducting the project's initial design concept which should be received by Dubai Municipality in February 2018 before being thoroughly studied and referred to the municipality's technical committee for review and endorsement, said Lootah.

The project will be executed over six years in two phases. The first phase will be launched in Deira District and the second in Bur Dubai.

Source: Khaleej Times