Saudi to build nine desalination plants in 18 months

posted by Francis Churchill

23 January 2018

Saudi Arabia is to build nine desalination plants at a cost of more than R2bn on the coast of the Red Sea.

Abdulrahman Al-Fadhil, minister of environment, water and agriculture, said the facilities would have a total capacity of 240m litres of water a day and be operational in less than 18 months.

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