Saudi Arabia’s Neom to build world’s first ‘solar dome’ desalination plant

Saudi Arabia’s Neom to build world’s first ‘solar dome’ desalination plant

Saudi Arabia has announced plans to adopt solar technology to power a desalination plant that produces clean, low-cost, environmentally friendly fresh water at the smart mega-city Neom.. The process sees seawater pumped into a hydrological 'solar dome' made from glass and steel, before it is superheated, evaporated and eventually precipitated as fresh water..