The Power and Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu (Marafiq) has signed a deal with desalination facility provider Sidem as part of which the latter will undertake engineering and maintenance work at a new saline water plant at Jubail?s SADARA Petrochemical Complex

Cities north of Saudi Arabia?s Eastern Province will receive 100,000 cubic metres of desalinated water from the plant by 2014. (Image source: Manidis Roberts/Flickr)

The Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), which is developing the world?s largest US$6.1bn desalination plant, has said that the project?s construction at Ras Al-Khair in Saudi Arabia was nearing completion

The project will reduce water demand by nearly 7.5mn litres per day and save more than US$7mn annually. (Image source: Ma?aden)

Aluminium producer Alcoa and Saudi Arabian mining company Ma?aden have announced the completion of an engineered wetlands wastewater management system in Saudi Arabia at Ma?aden Aluminium joint venture project site

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has announced plans to expand the Nimr reed-bed project in Oman to help increase the countrys water handling capacity and make greater use of produced water