Desalination project's capacity in the MENA region is expected to double by 2030.
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The Gulf Arab states have long been market leaders in desalination investment and development. Experimentation with desalination technologies dates to the 1890s and was a response to the water needs of pilgrims to Mecca.
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 plan foregrounds desalination technologies, and it is estimated that by 2030, desalination capacity across the MENA region will have doubled.
GCC countries account for some 60 percent of global water desalination capacity, producing around 40 percent of the total desalinated water in the world using over 400 desalination plants across the region.
Today, the majority of GCC countries are dependent on desalination plants for their water needs. Approximately 42 percent of the United Arab Emirates’ drinking water comes from desalination plants, while in Kuwait it is 90 percent, in Oman 86 percent, and in Saudi Arabia 70 percent. In terms of quantity of water produced, it is Saudi Arabia that leads; in 2020, it was reported that the country would invest around $80 billion into desalination over the next decade and that its desalination capacity is expected to reach 8.5 million cubic meters per day by 2025.
Also, several African countries are turning to desalination and other alternative water resources amid growing water scarcity compounded by climate change and increasing human pressure on natural resources. Water-scarce Egypt plans to quadruple its desalination capacity within the next four years.
This desalination project is part of the first phase of Egypt’s strategy, which aims to build 21 seawater desalination plants to add to the 70 plants that currently have a production capacity of 1.3 million m3/d.
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