
Veolia Water, through its subsidiary Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (VWS), has won two contracts in Dubai for wastewater and brackish water treatment and recycling installations, worth a total of EUR 22.4 million. The contracts have been awarded for two prestigious sites: Palm Jumeirah Island and the Burj Dubai Tower. The first contract awarded by Palm Water, covers turnkey delivery of a recycling wastewater installation on Palm Jumeirah Island. The contract is worth EUR 12.1 million for VWS. The recycling facility, located alongside the existing wastewater treatment plant, will on its own have a treatment capacity of 17,000cum/day. The installation will be delivered in 2008. The second contract is for treatment of the water in the artificial lake bordering the Burj Dubai Tower. It has been awarded to Veolia Water, through its subsidiary Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, by property developer Emaar Properties. The contract won by VWS is worth a total of EUR 10.3 million. It includes turnkey delivery of the installation for treating the water of the artificial lake in spring 2009, and management of the plant for a period of three years. The treatment plant, with a capacity of 62,400cum/day, houses the specific stormwater treatment facility and recycling equipment treating all the water in the lake using VWS technologies: four Actiflo® modules, four Hydrotech® disc filters, an Actidyne reverse osmosis membrane treatment module, and a post-treatment water remineralization and sludge treatment module.