Improving access to sanitation for host communities and refugees in Ramtha and Sahel Houran

ongoing

The project aims at developing and expanding the capacity of the sanitation system in the Ramtha and Sahel Houran areas with the collection and treatment of wastewater for a beneficiary population of 180,000 inhabitants by 2030 (i.e. a connection rate of 63% against 25% today).A new wastewater treatment plant with a final capacity of 22,000m3/day will be built in 2 phases, next to the current plant. The effluents treated to the standards for the reuse of purified water will then be conveyed by pumping through an 8-km trunk line to the Shalala treatment plant in order to be then transferred by gravity towards the King Talal dam and the King Abdullah Canal which serves the irrigated perimeters of the Jordan Valley. The project includes the construction of the first phase of the plant (wastewater sector of 11,000m3/day with treatment of the produced sludge) and the installation of around 100 km of networks and 4 pumping stations.A social component of the project will also finance the connection to thesewage network and the rehabilitation of sanitary facilities inside homes, allowing 3,200 households among the most vulnerable of the host communities and Syrian refugees, as well as certain public buildings (schools, health centers) to access a quality sanitation service.