Kuwait water demand grows in 2014

29 September 2014

Ministry of Electricity & Water pushing ahead with major desalination projects to cope with increase in consumption

Demand for desalinated water in Kuwait during the peak summer period rose by about 9 per cent in 2014, MEED’s Mena Water conference was told.

Speaking at the event in Abu Dhabi on 29 September, Suhaila Marafie, director of the research studies department at the country’s Ministry of Electricity & Water (MEW) said demand for water in the summer of 2014 reached 430 million gallons a day (g/d), compared with 395 million g/d for the same period in 2013.

Kuwait is currently pushing ahead with several projects to boost desalination capacity.

The largest schemes are being planned by the country’s public-private partnership (PPP) body, the Partnerships Technical Bureau (PTB), which is moving ahead with several major independent water and power projects (IWPPs). These include the second phase of the Al-Zour North IWPP and the Al-Khiran IWPP, both of which will contain desalination components with capacities of more than 100 million g/d.

The MEW is also building a 50 million-g/d desalination facility in Doha. The ministry has prequalified nine groups to bid for the contract, which will be tendered as a standard engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) deal.

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