Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA) launched 20 water and environmental projects on January 24, 2022 to provide sustainability in southwestern Saudi Arabia at a total cost of SAR 3.6 billion (991 million SAR) Dollar). The ministry, together with the emirate of Jizan province, has launched four water projects costing more than 2.5 billion SAR to produce desalinated water in Jazan.

Five other water supply projects costing more than 709 million riyals were also launched to expand the water delivery system. Seven riyals 346 million water and environmental services projects were launched to expand distribution. The inauguration involved four projects costing more than 70 million Saudi riyals to enhance water resources, serving more than 1.3 million beneficiaries in the region. Keywords: engineering construction, engineering news

The Saudi Jizan Water Extraction and Drainage Project mainly introduces the necessary seawater for the economic city's oil refineries, power plants and other facilities, and discharges the wastewater into the deep sea, connecting the blood of the Jizan Economic City. As a complex large-scale comprehensive project, it covers water conservancy, roads, bridges, housing construction, water supply and drainage, electrical, communications and many other majors, with a seawater supply and discharge capacity of 500,000 cubic meters per hour, a 50-year design service life, and extremely difficult construction. In particular, the project HDPE pipeline is known as one of the three major technical risks of economic city construction. There is no precedent in the world for the diameter, quantity and scale of pipelines.Editor/XingWentao