Ammon News - As part of preparations to begin implementing the National Water Carrier Project, the Cabinet approved a decision by the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority’s Board of Commissioners to grant the project a package of facilities and exemptions needed to proceed with implementation.

The decision is intended to facilitate the procedures required to launch the project, which is the first of its kind. It will desalinate 300 million cubic metres of seawater annually and pump the water through pipelines extending for about 450 kilometres. The project is expected to provide nearly 40 percent of the Kingdom’s drinking water needs, making it a key contributor to national water security.

The project is expected to provide an annual volume of water equivalent to the combined storage capacity of all dams in the Kingdom and nearly three times the output of the Disi Project. It will raise the annual per capita water allocation from 60 to 110 cubic metres and increase the number of days on which water is supplied from one to three days a week across all governorates of the Kingdom.