Khalifa bin Salman Port’s Water Transmission Station construction completed

Khalifa bin Salman Port’s Water Transmission Station construction completed

Electricity and Water Affairs Minister, Wael bin Nasser Al-Mubarak, and Chief Executive Officer of the Electricity and Water Authority (EWA), Shaikh Nawaf bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, today paid a visit to the Khalifa bin Salman Port's Water Transmission Station in Hidd Industrial Area. The facility, whose construction has been completed, is part of the first phase of the project to develop the water distribution network. This project aims to increase and enhance the storage capacity and pumping of water to the Khalifa bin Salman Port (KBSP) Station, to meet the needs of the industrial areas and the strategic Khalifa bin Salman Port. EWA reached an agreement with the Industry, Commerce and Tourism to transfer the KBSP Station's affiliation to it in order to run it and develop it according to its operational and storage standards. The project comprises the construction of two wrought iron buried storage reservoirs of 5 million-gallons capacity each, the establishment of a new building containing three pumps with a capacity of 3.8 million gallons per day each, with electrical appliances and control devices, and the rehabilitation of the one-million-gallon capacity upper reservoir. The Pan Gulf Panorama ‎Contracting Company WLL constructed all the station's facilities, and