Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — National Water Company (NWC) is working on finishing the second stage of its strategic storage project in the Jeddah area of Braiman that will have a capacity of about one million cubic meters, said an NWC press statement on Tuesday. The second stage of the project, worth more than SR375 million, is operating at 52 percent capacity and is expected to end by mid-2016. Saleh Sadawi, NWC's senior director of the Capital Project Office in the Western Region, said the second stage is one of NWC's initiatives to speed up completion of its plan to provide strategic water storage facilities with a total capacity of 6 million cubic meters. This project is the first of its kind in Jeddah. The objective of this project is to achieve the leadership's vision for water security and to provide the best water and environmental services to citizens and residents. Sadawi explained that the second stage comprises six tanks, each with a capacity of 166,700 cubic meters. NWC has already finished the first stage of the project, worth more than SR740 million, by installing 11 cylindrical water tanks each with a capacity of 188,000 cubic meters. In total they have a capacity of more than 2 million cubic meters. The Kingdom achieved a world record when Guinness World Records listed NWC's strategic tanks in Braiman as the largest potable water tanks in the world, breaking the previous world record of 1.8 million cubic meters.
