Pilot phase · Saudi Arabia and the Gulf

The registry of Gulf wastewater plants — and the engineering tools built on it.

Folonex builds one shared registry of wastewater plants and four products that read it: where a plant is and how it compares, what the regulator requires, how to size it, and where to buy the equipment. The registry is public and free today. The rest is in build.

238 plants in the registry · 32 with the site confirmed — against Sentinel-2 imagery, September 2026
The problem

A regulated sector running on guesswork.

Saudi wastewater operators run inspections quarterly, face million-SAR fines, and have no industry-wide visibility on how their plant compares with peers. Today's stack: spreadsheets, PDFs of regulations, and tribal knowledge.

01 · Operators

Inspections are quarterly. Fines hit millions.

Every operating plant is subject to MEWA + NCEC inspections, with penalties set by the M/165 schedule. Most plants find out at the audit, not before.

02 · Sector

No KSA-native benchmark.

Plants run on international benchmarks that don't account for arid-climate constraints, KSA reuse targets, or the regulator stack actually applied in the Kingdom. Operators compare against the wrong norms.

No public plant-level benchmark in the Kingdom
03 · Vision 2030

A national reuse target — and no plant-level way to track it.

The National Water Strategy sets a reuse target for 2030. Without per-plant performance data, the route from today to that target cannot be designed, monitored, or claimed.

What we deliver

One product live today. Three in build.

Folonex ships incrementally. Live today: the public plant registry, free and open to anyone. In build: regulatory pre-check, process calculation, and equipment sourcing — all reading the same registry.

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Live · Free

Sector Atlas

A public registry of wastewater plants across Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, compiled from GASTAT 2024 and public regulator and operator sources. Peer comparison is built on the same records as operators come on.

  • 238 plants in the registry
  • 32 with the site confirmed against Sentinel-2 imagery
  • Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, not the Kingdom alone
  • Open access, no sign-in
No login required
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In build

Pre-flight

An inspection-readiness check against primary Saudi documents — royal decrees, executive regulations, ministerial decisions — encoded as machine-readable rules rather than PDFs to read by hand.

  • 7 of 11 MEWA + NCEC report types encoded
  • Rules trace to the primary document
  • First pilot not signed
  • Demo on request
Plant managers
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In build

Process Lab

Process sizing and design checking with every figure traced to the standard it comes from — DWA-A 131 and Metcalf & Eddy — for the engineer designing a plant and the bid engineer checking what a contractor sent.

  • Deterministic engine, no estimation by model
  • Each figure cites the clause behind it
  • The licensed engineer still signs
  • Demo on request
Process engineer hire pending
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Planned

Sourcing

Equipment and vendor selection for the plant you just sized, independent of any equipment manufacturer. Catalogue work has started; the product is not open yet.

  • Vendor-independent by design
  • Reads the same registry
  • Not open to sign-up
Catalogue in progress
Frameworks we map to
MEWA NCEC WSRC SWA SASO NCA PDPL No operator data stored today Data residency in the Kingdom — a condition of the first pilot
By the numbers

What's on the map today.

A snapshot of the registry, with the denominator attached to every figure. No projections — what the public map shows right now.

238
plants in the registry
Saudi Arabia and the Gulf
32
of those with the site
confirmed on imagery
GASTAT 2024
compiled with public
regulator and operator sources
7 of 11
MEWA + NCEC report types
encoded — Pre-flight, in build
What's next
Peer benchmarkingwith pilot data → Sludge satellite CVpartner → Operator marketplacelater

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