RIYADH – Two desalination plants, costing a total of SR4 billion, will be established in the cities of Al-Khobar and Jubail in the Eastern Province. This was announced by Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture Abdurahman Al-Fadli, who is also chairman of the board of Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC).

Al-Fadli thanked Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman for approving the desalination projects that are expected to go on stream by the middle of 2021. He noted that this shows the King’s utmost keenness in making qualitative improvements in the water distribution network throughout the Kingdom. “The plants will contribute to pumping of more than one million additional cubic meters of water daily to various cities in the Eastern Province. The projects will be implemented by taking advantage of highly advanced technologies and world-class standards so as to improve the efficiency of production and bringing down operational costs,” he said.

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