Posco Wins UAE Water Storage Contract

Posco Engineering has secured a $198m contract to build a water storage facility in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which will supply water to Abu Dhabi in times of emergency.

The desert aquifers replenishment project includes the construction of three tankers to store desalinated water and four pumping stations for the supply of water.

The South Korea-based engineering group will also construct a 161km pipeline to supply desalinated water from Shuweihat 1 desalination plant to Abu Dhabi.

The project will inject seven million gallons per day of water into the Liwa aquifer, which has the capacity to supply Abu Dhabi with up to 40 million gallons of water a day.

The new project will provide an emergency back-up water supply to Abu Dhabi for up to 90 days from the present supply of 2-3 days, and will be completed in 2013.