SAUDI ACTION
- From: Vol 11, Issue 10 (October 2010)
- Category: Need to know
- Region: Middle East
- Country: Saudi Arabia
- Related Companies: National Water Company and Saline Water Conversion Corporation
* Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company has rejigged its plans for privatising its distribution networks and its wastewater treatment plants.
The Medina and Dammam/ Al Khobar management contracts have been put on hold, while the BOT (build-operate-transfer) wastewater treatment programme has also been put back. In the longer term, NWC has grand plans to set up asset-owning joint ventures with private sector partners, which will have a regional rather than just a purely national scope.
* One of the factors holding ...
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