Saudis Start Production at World’s Biggest Desalination Plant
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Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’s biggest economy, has started producing purified water at the 27 billion-riyal ($7.2 billion) Ras al-Khair desalination plant on the Persian Gulf, the state-owned Saudi Press Agency said, citing Minister of Water and Electricity Abdullah Al-Hussayen.
The complex northwest of Jubail will be the world’s biggest seawater desalination facility with a production capacity of 1.025 million cubic meters (264 million gallons) of drinking water a day and 2,600 megawatts of electricity when fully built out after this first phase.