Saudi Arabia aims to achieve full wastewater treatment

Riyadh, February 04, SPA -- Saudi Arabia is attempting to achieve the
100 percent treatment of household wastewater, said Dr. Mohammed I.
Al-Saud, Deputy Minister of Planning and Development in the Ministry
of Water and Electricity.

Dr. Al-Saud was speaking to Saudi Gazette after opening a two-day
Saudi-Japanese Sewage Water Treatment seminar in Riyadh, Tuesday.

“Our target is to reach 100 percent wastewater treatment in Saudi
Arabia,” he said, adding that the present level of wastewater
treatment amounts to 1 billion cubic meters per year.

He said the amount of residential wastewater was around two billion
cubic meters per year “and the initial target is to achieve the
treatment of around 1.7 billion cubic meters.”

--SPA