TRSDC launches project to produce water from sunlight, air

TRSDC launches project to produce water from sunlight, air

Saudi Arabia's The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC) has inaugurated the first station to produce water fully extracted from sunlight and air, as part of its endeavours to preserve the natural environment.

Launching this pioneering project in cooperation with Source Global, which is specialided in water extraction, is in line with what the multi-product Saudi tourism sector is witnessing, which will meet tourists' demands at the Red Sea distinguished destination through various means, TRSDC Chief Administrative Officer and Spokesperson Ahmed Ghazi Darwish was quoted as saying in a Saudi Press Agency (SPA) report.

He noted that the water extraction station, which works on solar energy and is the biggest of its kind, has a production capacity of two million bottles with a total of 330 millimetres annually. Yet, it will produce, in its early stages, 300,000 bottles each year, where reusable glass bottles will be refilled within the station as part of a periodic and sustainable distribution model. He added that water collection and bottling will reach carbon neutrality and dispose of non-recyclable plastic bottles.

He added that an ideal location was identified to inaugurate this solar-energy-powered station, pointing out that specialists have installed hydrogen panels at the location through a virtual survey