After 3 years of operation Al Hamra is under climax condition. One obstacle is that the system is still running by power supply of a generator resulting in manual operation of the distribution and piling up of water as pumps only operate during operation of generator which is only during filling of Stage A.


TSE water getting reused for construction

Inflow of Al Hamra Reed Bed

Outflow of Al Hamra Reed Bed


Stage A distribution pipes already covered

Al Hamra reed bed under operation, up to 10 tankers per day discharging into the system.




The reed plants getting taler and start to grow horizontal offshoots


Students from Dubai college visiting the Al Hamra reed bed
Mr. Stan Wehbe from RBC, the contractor and operator of the reed beds, is explaning the process of mineralization in the Stage A basins.

Mr. Osman Ali, RE from KN-International, the design and supervision consultant, explaning the process flow

The Al Hamra Reed Bed is under start-up process since March 2015.
