In the 75 days since the advent of Sha'aban, Umrah pilgrims have consumed three million 10-liter bottles of Zamzam water – an average of 40,000 bottles per day – from the King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Zamzam Water Project. Officials got ready for the Umrah season by securing one million bottles before the advent of Sha'aban. The Zamzam water bottles are distributed around-the-clock at the project's headquarters in Kuday via 72 automated machines that are supported during peak hours by 10 manually operated outlets. Four production lines each produce about 50,000 bottles per day and there are one million bottles ready to be distributed, according to a source at the King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Zamzam Water Project. Each production line works around-the-clock to meet the increasing demand for Zamzam water, which has developed along with the tremendous rise in number of Umrah pilgrims, the source added.
