Fourteen urgent rain and flood projects have been completed in record time – just 110 days after being commissioned. The Emir of Makkah region, Prince Khaled Al-Faisal who is also the Chairman of the Sub-Committee of Rainwater and Flood Treatment Project, made the announcement Tuesday. The 14 projects form part of a rapid solution to the perennial Jeddah floods problem. They include the Umm Al-Khair and Al-Samer dams, flood drainage canals and water drainage pipes at the Prince Majed Road-Palestine Road intersection. Other works have been put in place to stop water from accumulating inside important locations such as the King Abdullah Underpass that intersects with the Madina Road. Dams are also being built in the east of Jeddah. More permanent solutions to the flood problem are expected to begin next year. These include the building of dams, drainage canals and developing run
