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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It is going to shorten the distance of water reaching Taif by more than 40km.

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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.