The National Water Company (NWC) funneled SAR 857.5 mn into strategic projects in the Tabuk Province to improve its water and environmental services, it said in several X posts yesterday.

In Tabuk city, investments exceeded SAR 613 mn, including SAR 366 mn for four sewageprojects, adding 336 km of networks and pipelines, and over SAR 247 mn for two water projects, featuring a purification plant with a capacity of 150k cubic meters per day and 119 km of pipelines. Meanwhile, a SAR 17 mn project was completed across the wider Tabuk governorates to install backup generators at treatment facilities.

Projects in Duba and Tayma amounted to SAR 140 mn, where environmental services were upgraded for SAR 87 mn, adding 76 km of sewage networks and a lift station with a daily capacity of 5k cubic meters per day. For water services, SAR 53 mn was invested across three projects to deliver a new water pumping station with a capacity of 14.2k cubic meters per day, a 6.5k cubic meter storage facility, and over 131 km of pipelines.

In Umluj and Al Wajh, the NWC invested SAR 80 mn in three environmental service projects, which included 20 km of networks and a treatment plant with a capacity of 24.7k cubic meters per day. An additional SAR 7.5 mn was invested to install over 39 km of water networks in Umluj.

ICYMI- Tabuk’s Governor Prince Fahd bin Sultan inaugurated 48 new environment, water, and agriculture projects on Sunday valued at over SAR 4.4 bn. The projects included 23 ready initiatives valued at more than SAR 3.8 bn and 25 others about to kick off, with a combined cost of SAR 580 mn.

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