WABAG Bags Rs 700 Crore Order from Zambia to Set Up Waste Water Treatment Plants

VA Tech WABAG bags major order for Zambia wastewater treatment project
Largest water treatment major VA Tech WABAG has won a significant order from Lusaka Water Supply and Sanitation Company (LWSC) for designing and constructing two advanced wastewater treatment plants in Zambia. Estimated at around €78 million or around Rs 700 crore, this is the company’s entry into the African market.

This project is financed by European Investment Bank in Frankfurt, and German Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) Development Bank. Based on this order, VA Tech WABAG has to construct, own and operate two municipal wastewater treatment plants for the capital of Zambia, Lusaka. The capacities are 54 MLD at Ngwerere and 19 MLD at Chunga. There would be two phases of implementing this project. Thus, the EPC will see execution in 36 months. Then comes the phase of operation and maintenance of these plants where sustainable performance and efficiency in execution can be garnered during its run of 24 months. It is indeed because it has remained a thrust area, on account of the fact that as major chunk of both the plants’ energies is to be provided will come from green sources-of one, biogas; of the other, of solar power.

This water shall reach the country of Zambia from the biggest and modernest treatment plants for wastewater within the country. To this end, on their part, the plants will enormously contribute to the infrastructure of water and sanitation within the country that shall lift the water and sanitation in Lusaka to the standard of living conditions to many.

This is an all-round coordination with the proposal that the government has brought forth for further enhancement of water and sanitation infrastructure in Zambia. This, in fact, comes under the category of some primary development aspects scheduled for the country. VA Tech WABAG is the company with long and successful experience regarding such big water treatment projects whose completion the company had already dealt with by developing and building more than 1,500 municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment plants all over the world.

This project will be the landmark of VA Tech WABAG since this is for the African continent. The country focuses on sustainable development and modernized infrastructure, thus one of the perfect places for the project. These two plants will help in creating a better future for water management in Lusaka since it rapidly developed and increased in population through the past years.

Project Details

Location: Lusaka, Zambia

Client: Lusaka Water Supply and Sanitation Company (LWSC)
Financed by: EIB and KfW Development Bank
Sanctioned: € 78 million approximately Rs 700 crore
Capacity: 54 MLD (Ngwerere), 19 MLD (Chunga)
Construction Duration :36 months in EPC and 24 months operation and maintenance
Source of Power: Biogas and Solar Energy
Why for Zambia
This project fits within general efforts that the country has put towards meeting its fast-growing water and sanitation needs. The rapid urbanization within the city, especially within Lusaka, has increasingly brought on issues because of the inadequacy of proper treatment facilities for wastewater existing within the region. Bringing modern wastewater technology into this city will therefore improve sanitation in Lusaka and will help the nation get closer to more sustainable water management practices.

Advanced water treatment plants will greatly contribute to degrading the pollution in the environment and improve public health through dealing with the management of wastewaters effectively. It would be designed to stand out par with international standards, thereby giving utmost importance to sustainability along with the use of green energy resources.

Conclusion:

VA Tech WABAG has more than three decades of experience in the global water treatment industry with over 1,500 projects across the world. It has experience in both municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment plants, reflecting its capability to deliver complex projects in diverse geographical settings. This is one of the major strides the company has taken towards achieving entry in African markets while continuing to strengthen its footprints around the world and furthering efforts toward the solution for sustainable water management of emerging markets.

This project in Zambia will help to position VA Tech WABAG as one of the market leaders in the water treatment sector offering innovative solutions for one of the most vital infrastructure development areas-water and sanitation.