Societe des Eaux d’Assainissement d’Alger (SEAAL) second management contract

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In October 2011, the government of Algeria renewed Suez’s management contract to manage Algiers’ water and wastewater utility Societe des Eaux d’Assainissement d’Alger (SEAAL) for another five years, for the modernisation of water supply and sanitation services in the city of Algiers, Algeria. SEAAL had been created in 2006 by AdE (the Algerian Water Authority) and ONA (the National Wastewater Authority) to take over the provision of potable water and wastewater services to Algiers’ 3.5 million population. By 2011, SEAL had 525,000 water connections. The renewal came following Suez’s achievements over the course of its first contract (2006-2011) which saw access to 24-hour waste supply jump from 8% to 100% of the population. The new contract, worth Euro105 million in sales, aimed to consolidate service improvements and knowledge transfer at SEAAL, and expand to incorporate the management of water and wastewater networks in the district of Tipaza, 70km west of Algiers. The objective, similar to the one in Algiers, is to provide water access 24 hours a day to the 600.000 inhabitants of Tipaza.