Goreangab Water Plant

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The Council of the City of Windhoek granted a 20-year lease contract to the Windhoek Goreangab Operating Company Ltd. (Wingoc) to recycle wastewater for domestic use in Windhoek, Namibia in July 2001. The contract was for control over a newly built US$15 million wastewater treatment plant. The new plant was to enable the Namibian capital, with a population of 250,000, to increase its supply of recycled wastewater by more than three-fold by producing 21,000 cubic metres of purified water a day by treating raw water from the Goreangab dam and effluent from the Gammams Waste Water Treatment Plant. This was to cover approximately 30% of the city's total water requirement. Annual turnover was EUR 2.1 million. Wingoc comprised Vivendi Water (known as Veolia Environnement as of May 2003)(34%), Berlinwasser Holding (33%) and Va Tech Wabag (33%). Berlinwasser International was responsible for the overall operational and technological management of the company. In August 2002, the plant was commissioned into day-to-day running. The municipality of Windhoek was to be responsible for the water distribution and the collection of tariffs. WINGOC received an operator's fee consisting of a basic payment and a quantity-dependent reimbursement. The operator's fee was subject to a price escalation clause. The plant was constructed by DB Thermal of South Africa and funded by the German bilateral Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) (40%) the European Investment Bank (EIB) (55%) and the city of Windhoek (5%). None None