Saudi state desalination firm SWPC has released a new seven-year plan which outlines plans to nearly double the kingdom’s desalination capacity to 13.6mn m3/d by 2025 in order to meet growing domestic demand.

The company, which operates 1.5mn m3/d of desalination capacity – 19% of total Saudi capacity of 7.9mn m3/d – sets out in this SWPC Planning Statement 2020-25 a list of planned projects that will take its total desalination capacity to 8.5mn m3/d by 2025. (CONTINUED - 745 WORDS)