Saudi Water
Desalination Output
Exceeded One Billion Cubic Meters in 2002
Mena Report 30mar03
Saudi Arabia's water desalination output exceeded one billion cubic meters in 2002, reported the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC). Currently, 70 percent of the Kingdom’s drinking needs are provided through desalination, generating 3,600 megawatts of electric power.
SWCC confirmed these figures at the inauguration of the Shuaiba Phase Two project. Shuaiba is the second largest desalination plant in the Kingdom, supplying 154 million gallons of water and 500 megawatts of electricity. The second phase will double the quantity of water supplied by the plant to Makkah, and Taif, and will increase the supply to Jeddah by 60 percent.
Saudi Arabia is the largest desalinated water producer in the world, contributing to 30 percent of global production, according to official statistics. Desalinized seawater currently constitutes Saudi Arabia’s chief source for drinking water. The Saudi government transports its desalinated water via a 2,500 kilometer pipeline network, 21 pumping stations, 131 depots and 10 stations for mixing the desalinated water with underground water.
source: http://www.menareport.com/story/printArticle.php3?sid=245582&lang=e 10apr03
1 billion cubic meters = 1.307 billion cubic yards = 35.289 billion cubic feet = 263.96 billion gallons = 263,961,720,000,000 gallons
Acre-foot--the volume of water that would cover an acre one foot deep
1 acre = 43,560 square feet
1 acre-foot = 43,560 cubic feet = 1234.2 cubic meters
1 acre-foot = 325,851 gallons
1 cubic yard = 27 cubic feet = 0.765 cubic meter
1 cubic meter = 1.307 cubic yards
1 cubic foot per second = 449 gallons per minutes
1 cubic foot = 7.48 gallons
Volume Conversion Factors Multiply By To Obtain U.S. gallons 231 Cubic inches 3.78543 Liters 0.13368 Cubic feet 0.00000307 Acre-feet Cubic inches 16.3872 Cubic centimeters 0.004329 U.S. gallons 0.0005787 Cubic feet
According to the Marin, California Water District, an acre-foot covers about one football field to a depth of one foot. One acre-foot can supply three families with water for one year.
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