Sidoarjo's water consortium

Sidoarjo's water consortium

ADELAIDE (Reuter): United Water said yesterday it was part of an international consortium which had won a 25-year A$60 million (about US$50 million) contract to build and operate a water treatment plant in Sidoarjo, East Java in Indonesia.

United Water is a joint venture of Compagnie Generale des Eaux of France, England's Thames Water, and Adelaide's unlisted Kinhill Engineering which operates Adelaide's water and wastewater system under a A$1.5 billion 10-year contract.

Managing director Stephane Richter said in a statement it was Indonesia's first build-operate-transfer (BOT) water contract to be awarded to private companies.

United Water said the Sidoarjo consortium includes Indonesian companies PT Hansa Lestari and PT Agumar Nusa, with United Water to provide technical leadership and water industry expertise.

The Sidoarjo treatment plant would have an initial capacity of 20 million liters a day, it said.