ILF Consulting awarded Contract for Saudi’s NWC Projects

ILF Consulting awarded Contract for Saudi’s NWC Projects

ILF Consulting Engineers announced in a statement that it has been appointed by Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company (NWC) to provide Project Management, the construction supervision, and the design review services for an important program which focusses on the improvement of the Drinking Water Quality in the Eastern Region.

In the Saudi Arabian cities of Dammam, Al Khobar, Qatif, Jubail, Abqaiq, and Al Hassa, the drinking water quality is negatively influenced by high salinity levels. To address this problem, The National Water Company (NWC) in the Kingdom has launched a program to improve drinking water quality in these areas.

The individual projects have an estimated overall contract value of around 4.8 billion Saudi Riyals and include the construction of transmission lines, network extensions, pumping stations, and storage tanks for each of the five cities in the Eastern part of the country.

To close all existing groundwater wells with high salinity levels, an additional 420.000 m3/day is needed from alternative sources in order to cater for the future daily demand of 1.370.000 m3/day. The primary source for this additional quantity will be supplied by The Saline Water Conversion Company (SWCC) in Saudi Arabia.

Currently, the program represents the biggest Urban Water Supply Program in Saudi