(Reuters) -Kuwait will sign a contract with China in mid-October to build its largest wastewater treatment plant by capacity, the North Kabd plant, the state news agency reported on Thursday.

The facility will process up to 1 million cubic metres of wastewater a day, using advanced technologies.

Oil-rich Kuwait struggles to reuse treated wastewater. Much of it is discharged to the sea due to limited storage capacity and infrastructure problems, and quality constraints confine reuse to irrigation only.

The project is among several mega-developments Kuwait is pursuing with Chinese support, including the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port, power and water plants, renewable energy and waste recycling projects and new residential cities.

Kuwait signed several memorandums of understanding with China in

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