Huaifang Water Reclamation Plant is a wastewater recycling plant, located in the southwest of Beijing, China. Commissioned since 2017, the 3-floor plant is spanned over an area of 162,000 m2 which is built in response to the state capital of Beijing, facing a water shortage challenge exacerbated by climate change and urbanization with having the major water treatment systems being installed underground to save a valuable land. The water treatment project is said to have been equipped with the forefront technologies.
Owned and operated by Beijing Drainage Group; Huaifang Water Reclamation Plant is the largest underground MBR-based wastewater treatment plant in Asia, with its construction being finished by December 2016 in association to the facility upgradation, executed by Suez in the year 2015.[1]