Saudi Arabia's bond with Iraq is at its best, with an upcoming desalination partnership: SWA

INA-  Baghdad


 
The Saudi Water Authority announced today, Thursday, a water desalination partnership with Iraq for the coming period. 
 
 The authority's Executive Director of Communication and Marketing, Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Rajhi, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA), "Saudi Arabia today is a pioneer in water desalination in the world, and is fully ready to put its hand with all Arabs and the Islamic world to transfer this experience," pointing out that "the Iraqi-Saudi relationship is at its best and in very continuous development, and in desalination there will be a lot of partnership in the coming period." 
 
He went on to say that "knowledge transfer is one of the things that the Kingdom can contribute to desalination operations," and that "there is a Saudi-Iraqi Coordination Council with a number of agenda and topics of common interest between the two countries, and in general Saudi Arabia today opens its hand to everyone by transferring knowledge in all fields."  
 
  Al-Rajhi stated that "the Kingdom today fully relies on the provision of water on desalination operations, whether on the eastern or western coast of the Red Sea," and that "desalination in Saudi Arabia constitutes 20% of the world's desalinated water."

He stated that "Saudi Arabia produces about (15) million cubic meters of water per day through production organizations for desalination or purification plants in dams and underground wells," emphasizing that "the quantities of water produced in particular for Mecca and the holy sites amounted to 3 million and 600 thousand cubic meters of water per day."

He stated that "the average daily pumping through the distribution network in the holy sites is expected to reach more than (750) thousand cubic meters during Arafa and Eid, and that records are expected to be broken and production reaches more than one million cubic meters of water per day."