Yemen to Launch First Desalination Project

Yemen will launch its first desalination project to supply desalinated water from the Al-Makha coast to the water-starved cities of Taiz and Ibb.

The country plans to construct four desalination plants in Al-Makha and transport the desalinated water to Taiz by deploying 50 trucks daily with a capacity of 50,000l each.

The project will be implemented in two stages, with the first stage having a production capacity of 50,000m² daily and the second stage doubling this to 100,000m² daily.

The project also includes the construction of pipelines from Al-Makha to Taiz and then to Ibb, four pumping stations across each pipeline and distribution points.

The Saudi Projects Authority will carry out the pipeline project from Al-Makha to Taiz.

The project will be run by Saudi Arabia, which has agreed to extend $220m to Yemen to construct the pipelines, according to yementimes.com.