Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP)

To date, none of the WWTP’s in the West Bank have become fully operational. Outstanding challenges include the inability to ensure operational sustainability by proposing adequate arrangements to collect waste water and then distribute the treated water for reuse (e.g. in agriculture). After assessing the existing WWTP’s in the West Bank in 2014, The Portland Trust identified an opportunity to support and carry forward an existing project built by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency in Jericho. The plant has been constructed but only a small proportion of the necessary collection pipelines are being built. In 2015, The Portland Trust prepared financial analysis and a detailed financial model for a proposal (PPP) to fund the build out of the network and operation of the plant. The Portland Trust’s work continued to focus on seeking the Municipality’s agreement to implement the project, donor funding for the remaining components of the network and private sector investment in the distribution network.

On 15 October 2017, the United States Government announced a $10 million USAID investment to expand the Jericho wastewater collection system to an additional 10,000 residents.