Environment & Energy | Thursday 30 July, 2015 2:55 am |

On Tuesday 13 Ramadan, 2015h (30 June, 2015g), Dr. Loay Ahmed  Al-Musallam, NWC CEO, attended the pilot operation of stage 1 of the project of developing Abar Saad ground water field that supplies Riyadh with water. Stage 1 includes the execution of a water station with the capacity of 500,000 m3 daily, a pipeline 62 km long, 2 collection tanks with the capacity of 40,000 m3, a number of buildings and service support equipment. The cost shall be over SAR 700 million. NWC stated that the project targets increasing water supply to the capital by 14%.

According to NWC, stage 1 shall be followed with several stages. Stage 1 shall increase the actual water production from 200,000 m3 to 245,000 m3. Stage 2 shall start at the end of this year and shall add more than 70,000 m3 daily. Stage 3 shall start on the 3rd quarter of 2016 and shall add 80,000 m3 daily. The project shall reach its maximum capacity – 300,000 m3 daily by the 2nd quarter of 2017 whereas the total production of Abar Saad stations shall reach 500,000 m3 daily and become the world largest station for refining ground water by reverse osmosis.

NWC saves no effort to execute as many infrastructure project in Riyadh for raising the level of the services of water and wastewater sectors as they are expanded to cover populated areas. Also, NWC continuously executes troubleshooting leakage works in networks and customer houses. As per Board of Directors directions, the upcoming projects shall be tendered according to general competition system and qualification requirements of high standards, international measures and high quality specifications.