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AWARDS

AL-WAJEED WATER

MASTER PLAN, KSA

FINDING DRINKING WATER
SOLUTIONS IN SAUDI
ARABIA’S DRIEST PLACES
The Al-Wajeed Water Master Plan
is a major social infrastructure
initiative aligned with Saudi
Arabia’s Vision 2030. This life-
critical project, located in the
Kingdom’s Empty Quarter (the
world’s largest uninterrupted
sand mass), is safeguarding the
well-being of more than half-a-
million people in Tathleeth and
Bisha governorates, where water
shortages were presenting a
serious threat to health and
the economy.
This highly complex project "AL-WAJEED WATER MASTER PLAN HAS BEEN A MAJOR
sought to safely extract, purify CATALYST FOR INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN
and transfer water from the A PART OF THE KINGDOM PREVIOUSLY VIEWED AS
Al-Wajeed wells to strategic INACCESSIBLE FOR INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES,
reservoirs in Tathleeth – AND NOW HAS A GROWING LOCAL ECONOMY WHICH
a distance of approximately FURTHER ADDS TO THE LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY OF
600 km, and Khatib & Alami was THE REGION’S COMMUNITIES."
responsible for full design and Maher Habanjar, Senior Director - Water Supply & Wastewater
construction supervision. Lebanon

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