The luxury Ajman Kempinski Hotel in the UAE has become totally self-sufficient for all its water requirements thanks to the state-of-the-art system installed by water and wastewater treatment specialist Metito.

Metito was involved in every stage of the initial planning process of the hotel design to ensure the introduction of a totally integrated water and wastewater treatment system for the five-star hotel, says Metito (Overseas) managing director Fady Juez.

Hotel planners had to ensure a constant supply of fresh water and wanted a self-contained waste water treatment unit that could provide treated water for irrigation of the vast lawns, trees and shrubs in the hotel gardens.

Metito first sunk two deep beach wells to pump seawater into a fully automated on-site seawater desalination plant utilising reverse osmosis process which supplies 160 cu m of fresh water every day.

Juez says: "Guaranteeing a constant supply of drinking water was only a part of the project. We also designed and installed an on-site sewage treatment system that treats all sewage and other used water from showers, sinks and kitchens.

"This treated water is then re-used on site for watering of all lawns and planted areas in the hotel grounds."

Metito's role in the project included turnkey design, engineering, fabrication supply, installation commissioning and the ongoing full operation and maintenance.

Hotel chairman Aboudi Kosta said : "We chose Metito as our partner because of their long international track record of success in delivering world-class water and waste water treatment solutions to hotels like ours.

"Their expertise has ensured that we can guarantee uninterrupted water supply to our guests, make significant economies through the re-use of treated water for irrigation and run all these systems within the hotel grounds."

"We are also proud to be the first hotel in the Middle East to have adopted an advanced and environmentally-friendly technology in our hotel," he said.

Metito has its office in Sharjah and factory in Hamriyah Free Zone.