Toray receives reverse osmosis membrane order for Rabigh 3 desalination plant. Privatisation of Ras al-Khair desalination plant suspended. Construction continues at Shuqaiq 3 IWP. Saudi Arabia postpones deadline for Ras al-Khair privatisation project.
Abengoa advances in the commissioning of the Rabigh 3 plant and produces first desalinated water. New technology and ground-breaking engineering on display at Shuqaiq 3 IWP. The Kingdom has set a goal to increase national wastewater treatment processing capacity to 8. By , the total amount of collected wastewater will reach Source: Al Riyadh. One of its pillars is the privatization model outlining the separation of the water production assets from the transmission assets to further the Vision goal of a 65 percent increase in GDP contribution from the private sector over the next decade.
The initiatives intend to strengthen competition, improve the quality of provided services, further economic development, and remove obstacles to investment within the water and wastewater sectors. The National Water Strategy has set goals for nationwide wastewater coverage to grow from 65 percent in to percent by , with strategic partners taking over responsibility of percent of treated water production by as well.
The NWC is now moving ahead with plans to partially privatize its water and wastewater assets and has acquired technical, legal, and financial consultants on its TSE program.
Under the National Water Strategy, the NWC is opening opportunities for private firms to help develop sewage treatment plants with a total processing capacity of 5. The contracts cover rehabilitation, operational improvements, and capacity increases, with additional contracts in the pipeline for and beyond. While NWC will remain a significant shareholder in the treatment plants, one or more private sector firms will assume operation and maintenance activities. The first set of contracts to be offered by the NWC for operating its water distribution assets, six in total, will run for a period of between three and seven years, with long term goals to transfer these contracts into concession arrangements lasting 25 to 30 years.
As of January , the SWCC had prequalified seven interested parties out of a pool of 37 for the forthcoming privatization of its largest asset, the Ras Al-Khair plant. The SWCC has already begun its plans to privatize 11 desalination plants with a total capacity of 4.
Although the Saudi government is leading the investment drive in the sector, local private sector companies are looking for foreign technology partners and lenders to help bid on new contracts and build additional plants while the government seeks to attract outside investment.
Saudi Arabia, although facing significant water challenges, is rising to the occasion through its diverse set of development goals established under Vision The country aims to meet its goals through a careful mix of privatization, technological advancements, infrastructure construction, and regulatory reforms.
A delegation of more than leaders in Saudi Government[ Industry tracker Opensignal has said that Saudi Arabia has the[ World News. Rate Story. Font Size Abc Small. Abc Medium. Abc Large. Reuters Saudi Arabia produces the most amount of brine. AL JUBAIL: The world ' s largest producer of desalinated water , Saudi Arabia also makes the most amount of waste from this energy intensive industry; but local researchers are trying to change that.
Ahmed al-Amoudi, head of a government-run desalination research institute, sees a future where industrially useful minerals such as sodium chloride salt, magnesium and calcium are extracted from the seawater alongside clean water , and no highly-salty wastewater - known as brine - flows back into the sea. Read More News on Saudi Arabia wastewater saline water conversion corporation al jubail water distillation.
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