Saudi’s NWC appoints ILF for $1.3bln urban water supply programme

Saudi’s NWC appoints ILF for $1.3bln urban water supply programme

ILF Consulting Engineers announced on Sunday that it has been appointed by Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company (NWC) to provide project management, construction supervision, and design review services for its programme to improve drinking water quality in the Eastern region.

In a LinkedIn post, the Austria-headquartered engineering consultancy said the programme, billed as the biggest urban water supply programme in the Kingdom, will address the high salinity levels in drinking water in the Eastern cities of Dammam, Al Khobar, Qatif, Jubail, Abqaiq, and Al Hassa.

The programme comprises of 13 individual major urban water supply projects with a total value of almost 5 billion Saudi riyals ($1.3 billion), and include the construction of transmission lines, network extensions, pumping stations, and storage tanks for each of the five cities, according to the post.

The city-wise distribution of projects are as follows:

• Dammam: 4 projects worth SAR 2.256 billion

• Qatif: 2 projects worth SAR 643 million

• Khobar: 2 projects worth SAR 665 million

• Al Hassa: 2 projects worth SAR 543 million

• Jubail: 1 project worth SAR 629 million

• Abqaiq: 2 projects worth SAR 68 million

Construction opportunities, according to the post, include:

- 42 mega/middle-sized reservoirs to improve strategic and operational storage

- 21 pumping stations to improve