WWTP opening boosts foreign hopes in Iran
- From: Vol 12, Issue 5 (May 2011)
- Category: General
- Region: Middle East
- Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
- Related Companies: VA Tech (Wabag) and World Bank
The huge wastewater treatment plant recently completed in South Tehran did not mark a national financial change, as its backers hoped. Despite the difficult financial history, the project can now serve as a model for the future.
The 450,000m3/d South Tehran WWTP, which started full operations a matter of weeks ago, was intended by its World Bank backers to spearhead a new era of privatisation and cost recovery in Iran’s conservative water and wastewater market.
But while the bank had to back down on its ambitious goals due to a fractious development process and ...
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