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The World’s Largest Desalination Tunnel Project Has Been Completed And It Is In Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia had been working on building the longest desalinated water pipeline tunnel system in the world and the project has just been completed.
And in record time – the entire project took just 19 months to complete
The project has been carried out by the Kingdom’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) and also included excavation work at Al-Hada mountains
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The tunnel, which measures 12.5 kilometers long at a width of 8.4 meters, will pump desalinated water to reservoirs in Taif and in villages in the southern Al-Baha region.
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إنجاز سعودي، حفر أطول نفق أنابيب مياه في العالم بقطر 8.4م وبمسافة 12.5 كلم.🇸🇦 pic.twitter.com/bljO38MHIV— عناد العتيبي 🇸🇦 (@ENAD_Alotaibi) September 17, 2020
SWCC said it was ready to receive water in its storage units in Taif and estimate that desalinated water will begin reaching Al-Baha region in the third quarter of 2021.
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