The National Water Company (NWC) has begun the first and largest phase of its project within its strategic plan to achieve a sustainable and secure water supply and to meet the challenges of providing water sector services to clients in Riyadh.
Currently the NWC is completing the initial stages of the first phase of the project in western Riyadh which will provide 600,000 cubic meters of storage capacity at a cost of SR250 million. Specialized companies were awarded contracts for this phase of the project in a previous tender. The work will come on-line gradually, and is expected to reach maximum capacity by summer 2015, serving the west Riyadh neighborhoods of Laban, Aeryjae and Tuwaiq.
NWC has now finalized contracts for the remaining first-phase of the strategic water storage project, providing an additional 4 million cubic meters at a cost of approximately SR1.6 billion. These projects are designed to answer any shortfall in the water supply caused by maintenance procedures, production problems or network failure, as part of NWC’s secure supply strategy. Work has already begun in four locations in Riyadh, and is scheduled to be completed in 18 months.
First-phase projects were distributed in separate locations throughout the city to ensure continuity of supply, streamlined connectivity with networks, and to avoid any failures in transmission lines, as the NWC implements its strategic plan for a secure and sustainable water supply to keep up with Riyadh’s construction boom.
The second phase of the NWC’s strategy to build a sustainable and secure water supply for Riyadh will entail developing further storage capacity of 6 million cubic meters at a cost of SR2.6 billion. The strategic storage project includes the construction of main transmission lines with diameters of 300mm to 2000mm, and the provision of operational water tanks with capacities of 5000 and 50,000cubic meters, costing more than SR3 billion.