{"id":312647,"date":"2022-05-31T12:10:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=312647"},"modified":"2022-05-31T12:11:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:11:15","slug":"saudi-company-to-open-six-desalination-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-company-to-open-six-desalination-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi company to open six desalination plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Saudi Arabia\u2019s <strong>Saline Water Conversion Corporation<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swcc.gov.sa\/ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SWCC<\/a>) will open six desalination plants by 2024, SWCC governor Abdullah Al-Abdul-Karim said in an interview with <em>Arab News<\/em> on the sidelines of a desalination conference earlier this week in Jeddah. Two plants will be launched by late 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Karim revealed that these plants will be established across various cities of Saudi Arabia, including Al-Shuqaiq, Al-Shoaiba, Jubail, and Alkhobar. SWCC is a state-owned company that operates<strong> seawater desalination<\/strong> plants in the country. The company aims to be a global leader in water desalination.<\/p>\n<p>The plants will focus on a <strong>low power <\/strong>consumption. Each plant will have a power consumption of less than 1.7 kilowatts per cubic meter, which will reduce the cost of water production from SAR 1.54 (USD 0.42) per cubic meter to SAR 1.3 (USD 0.35) per cubic meter. \u201cWith production at such minimum cost, it will increase the sector\u2019s contribution to the national gross domestic product (GDP),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Karim revealed that the Saudi water desalination industry is planning to <strong>reduce its carbon emissions<\/strong> by 65% by 2024, equaling 35 million tons of carbon dioxide, thus following Saudi Arabia\u2019s environmental plan. SWCC is also moving from conventional energy sources toward advanced and efficient systems to power these desalination plants, which will fuel their plan to become carbon neutral by 2060<\/p>\n<p>During the interview with <em>Arab News<\/em> on the sidelines of the Innovation Driven Desalination conference, the executive added that innovation is necessary to make water \u201caffordable, abundant, and accessible.\u201d He said that we need to let innovation impact the desalination industry to reduce the cost, increase efficiency, improve financial sustainability, and impact the economy and living standards. He invited innovative companies worldwide to come and join hands with the firm.<\/p>\n<p><em>Arab News<\/em> said that, according to a report released by SWCC, Saudi Arabia\u2019s production of desalinated water amounts to more than 7.9 million cubic meters per day, which represents 55% of the Gulf region and 22.2% of the global desalination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-312643\">SWCC<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saline Water Conversion Corporation announced the launch of new seawater desalination plants by 2024, focusing on a low power consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":312643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[31811,11910,31812,31813,31809,31814,31810],"class_list":{"0":"post-312647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-innovation","8":"tag-abdullah-al-abdul-karim-en","9":"tag-arabia-saudita-en","10":"tag-saline-water-conversion-corporation-en","11":"tag-saline-water-conversion-corporation-swcc-en","12":"tag-saudi-arabia-desalination","13":"tag-swcc-en","14":"tag-water-desalination"},"wps_subtitle":"Saline Water Conversion Corporation announced the launch of new seawater desalination plants by 2024, focusing on a low power consumption.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}