Right remedy for Saudi groundwater crisis
- From: Vol 10, Issue 2 (February 2009)
- Category: General
- Region: Middle East
- Country: Saudi Arabia
- Related Companies: King Saud University, Ministry of Water and Electricity and National Water Company
The new deputy minister for planning and development Mohammed Al-Saud thinks water rights might help control agricultural water use in the kingdom. Not before time.
The creation of the National Water Company left a large gap in Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Water and Electricity. At a stroke, responsibility for water and wastewater services in the four largest cities in the kingdom was transferred out of the ministry, while the deputy minister for planning and development, Loay Al-Musallam, was also transferred to the new company ...
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