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Saudi Arabia is the third largest consumer of water per capita in the world, but has limited groundwater to tap. The country has been plagued by shortages in recent years, timberland boots for sale and with consumption rising on the back of a growing population and economic growth set to soar, the government has needed to act quickly to stave off potential disaster and civil unrest.

Desalination forms the backbone of the government's water strategy. Some 30 desalination plants have already been built by the state, but timberland boots online these have barely been able to keep pace with rising demand.

In BMI's 'Q310 Saudi Arabia Water Report' we have revised down our forecasts for water desalination capacity additions over coming years. We now expect desalinated water to reach 1.159bn m3 in 2010, down from 1.167bn m3 in our previous forecast. By 2014, acheter des dofus kamas we envisage water desalination supply to reach 1.294bn m3, compared with a previous forecast of 1.366bn m3.

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Building on a master plan drawn up in 2002, some US$6bn a year has been committed by the government to bolstering the water sector over the next two decades. This was regarded as too big a task for stateowned utilities alone, so, for the first time in dc power supply Saudi Arabian infrastructure outside the hydrocarbons sector, the programme involves massive input from the domestic and international private sector.

Saudi Arabia's regulatory oscilloscope system for the power and water sectors was overhauled to make it more investor-friendly and to enable the creation of bodies such as the Water and Electricity Company (WEC) and the National Water Company (NWC) to manage the transition and provide state partners for investors.

The main vehicles are independent power and water projects (IWPPs) shanghai massage in which the private sector can take stakes of up to 60%. Over US$15bn worth of IWPPs have been sanctioned since the programme started in 2004. They will add over 1bn m3 a year to the country's water supply and nearly 10 gigawatts (GW) of power Warhammer power leveling capacity.

Implementation is the watchword in the wastewater treatment sector. National Water Company has successfully ensured the shortening of the expected duration of delivery on a number of critical water and wastewater projects to a value of SAR1bn in Riyadh and gold for sale Jeddah, following the use of acceleration mechanisms. The company claims to have reduced the delivery period on 13 impeded projects.

Another related infrastructure requirement has arisen in improving drainage systems - a flaw highlighted in the November 2009 Jeddah floods. But Jeddah is not alone in its susceptibility to this kind of damage. In the capital, the government is looking timberland boots for sale to spend SAR11bn on a major overhaul of drainage systems, in order to better cope with the seasonal heavy rainfalls.

The first IWPP to be completed, the US$2.45bn Shuaibah facility, sought funding in 2004 and - after initial mistrust among foreign investors then unfamiliar with the Saudi Arabian market - eventually received financing from a Saudi-Malaysian consortium. The success of this SEO company financing paved the way for a number of other IWPPs to successfully seek funding. Saudi Arabia's population dynamics will cushion it from the worst of the fallout from the regional economic downturn. .wpj