Saudi Arabia

Neom City is a futuristic city that the Saudi Arabian government plans to build in the country’s Tabuk region.

The $500 billion development will include a range of smart technologies and will serve as a “living laboratory and hub for innovation,” according to its planners. It will also be exclusively powered by renewable energy.

According to a new study by KAUST, renewables-powered desalination will play a key role in the city.

It will be critical to ensuring sustainable supplies of water through demand-side management (DSM).

Saudi Arabia’s futuristic planned city NEOM plans to build a water desalination plant powered by renewable energy.

NEOM signed a MOU yesterday with the Japanese trading company Itochu and the French energy company Veolia to build a desalination facility powered completely from renewable energy.

NEOM plans for the facility to produce 500,000 cubic meters a day of water by early 2024, according to a press release.

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ACCIONA has started the operation and maintenance of SWPC Shuqaiq 3 desalination plant, one of the largest in Saudi Arabia serving two million people.

The O&M contract has been awarded for 25 years. The IWP uses SWRO technology, which is more energy efficient than conventional thermal desalination.

Shuqaiq 3 is a key project in the modernization of the water sector that is being carried out by the SWPC.

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Together with its partner SEPCO III, ACCIONA has started the construction of the Jubail 3B IWP.

Its capacity of 570,000 cubic meter per day will supply 2 million people in the cities of Riyadh and Qassim once commercially operational in 2024.

ACCIONA and its partner are the main EPC contractors in the project, which will be developed and financed by a consortium consisting of ENGIE, NESMA and AJLAN for the publicly-owned SWPC. 

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Saudi Arabia has announced the launch of 26 water, environmental and agricultural projects in the Tabuk region of the kingdom at a total cost of more than $667 million.

These projects, which include four desalination projects worth SR1 billion, and 5 projects for water transmission systems valued at SR1 billion.

In addition the governor also opened seven projects for developing water resources at a cost of SR100 million.

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Saudi Arabia has agreed to provide a one-billion-dollar investment guarantee to the federal government, which will be used to build a desalination plant in Karachi to address the city’s water supply problems.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif made the announcement at CM House, where he was invited by the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Friday to discuss “key issues of the economy” and “suggest measures to meet the current challenges,” which have crippled the country’s financial system and put the newly-formed coalition government at a crossroads.

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The Governor of the Saudi Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), Eng. Abdullah Al-Abdul Karim, said that work has begun to create the world’s largest environmentally friendly water osmosis system.

The Saudi official revealed the Kingdom’s aspirations to find solutions to the risks that threaten humanity, especially the increasing water demand.

His comments came during a speech at the opening of the Global Water Summit, which kicked off on Wednesday in Madrid.

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