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| Source: NWC. |
HE Engineer Abdulrahman bin Abdulmohsen Al Fadhli, Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture, has inaugurated new Almuaisim tanks with 760,0000 m3 of capacity as part of the readiness plan for Hajj 2016 (1437).
Al Fadhli said that Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) and the National Water Company (NWC) have been working together to ensure nonstop water provision for Makkah and the Holy Masha'ar area (Editor's note: the area where the rituals for the Hajj are held), including through the building of strategic tanks with the capacity of 2.4 million m3, with emergency reserve tanks to be distributed throughout the Masha'ar.
According to Dr Abdulrahman Al-Ibrahim, SWCC Governor and CEO of NWC, water provision for Makkah and Masha'ar will total more than 18 million m3. Of a daily 650,000 m3 of water, 180,000 m3 will be pumped from Shuwaibah Plant, 460,000 m3 from Shuwaibah station and 2,000 m3 from Wadi Malakan project for feeding the Masjid al Haram toilets. NWC's four tanker filling stations will be working at full capacity around the clock during this Hajj season.
Dr Al-Ibrahim also shared that field inspection tours will be conducted continually throughout Hajj.
The minister additionally visited King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Project
for Zamzam, which has doubled staff at sales/distribution points, for
the approximate 1.5 million 10l packs which will be sold during
Hajj. Sales points were established in all terminals of Jeddah and
Madinah airports.