Saudi Arabia is planning to launch the world’s largest potable water project by digging a ‘river’ four meters deep, 11 meters wide and 12,000 kilometers long, aimed at surpassing the Nile river.
According to popular Saudi reporter Ahmad Al Shugairi’s TV series Seen, the project will use anti-corrosion pipes, with each pipe having a diameter of 2.25 metres.
“The amount of effort spent to create underground rivers provides us with water in our homes, even though we are in an area that is mostly desert. It is a blessing I was born with, and from getting used to it I forgot it and took it for granted. Thank you to everyone who had a hand that we wake up and find water at home,” Al Shugairi said.
He added: “After a few years, the length of the water pipes will transport this fresh water from one place to another,” indicating that this project be twice the size of the Nile, which is over 6,000 kilometres long.
“We are talking about the longest, twice the longest river in the world.” They are all underground pipes that bring us fresh, good water,” Al Shugairi said.
This will be one of the world’s largest desalinated water transport networks, according to Al Shugairi who added that “the length of the pipes under the Saudi cities is 126,000 kilometers, and if it revolved around the world it would circle the world three times, and the amount of water would be 9.4 million cubic meters produced per day.”
This amount, according to Al Shugairi, if distributed to the world’s population, every person would get two gallons (two bottles) of water from the production of water sweetened in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is the leading producer of desalinated water globally, producing over one billion and six million cubic meters of water every year, which accounts for 18 percent of global production.
The Saline Water Conversion Corporation, a government-run entity, is the largest producer of desalinated water in the world, generating a total of (1006.6) million cubic meters annually.
The corporation’s eastern coast stations produce (495.3) million cubic meters of water, making up 49.2 percent of the total production, while the coastal stations generate (511.3) million cubic meters, comprising 50.8 percent of the overall output.
The 27 operating desalination plants in the country generate a volume of (24,884,807) MWh of electrical energy.
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