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A water service truck in Jeddah. Water supply and sanitation in Saudi Arabia is characterized by challenges and achievements. One of the main challenges is water scarcity.In order to overcome water scarcity, substantial investments have been undertaken in seawater desalination, water distribution, sewerage and wastewater treatment.
An Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Program Project supported by a US$150 million World Bank credit, approved in August 2002, aims at efficient and sustainable water and sanitation services in major urban areas. Their project has three components. The first rehabilitates and expands the water supply and sanitation infrastructure.
The Plan describes the current status and the environmental and technical issues related to projections of demand and supply, groundwater abstraction, desalination, water supply and sanitation, irrigation, wastewater treatment and Emirati governance and institutions. [2] The government has run a media campaign to encourage people to save water.
Without clean water, Gazans are forced to drink or cook with tainted water. That water is likely to be rife with bacteria that can lead to violent intestinal diseases, such as dysentery and cholera .
According to a 2007 survey the mean rate of supply per week was 1.5 days in Madaba governorate, 2.9 days in Balqa governorate and 3.2 days in Zarqa governorate. [5] In Amman, according to the water distribution plan of Miyahuna, 8 out of 44 main distribution zones received continuous water supply "except in emergency cases" in 2012.
Common variants of qanat in English include kanat, khanat, kunut, kona, konait, ghanat, ghundat. [3]Qanāh (قناة) is an Arabic word that means "channel". [4] In Persian, the words for "qanat" are kārīz (or kārēz; كاريز) and is derived from earlier word kāhrēz (كاهریز).
Drinking water at Camp Lejeune was heavily contaminated with a number of cancer-causing industrial chemicals, including trichloroethylene or TCE, vinyl chloride and benzene, from 1953 to 1985.
The Nile river is the only water source for most of Egypt, including its capital Cairo shown here.. Egypt's main source of freshwater is the Nile River. The river supplies 55 billion m 3 of freshwater every year, which represents 97% of all renewable water resources in Egypt. [5]