King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, is scheduled to inaugurate Friday the SR700-million King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Zamzam Water Project in Makkah's Kuday District. Engineer Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Hussein, Minister of Water and Electricity, said that as per the King's directives the project aims to maintain the purity of Zamzam water using the latest international methods and distribute it in an automated fashion. He said five million liters of Zamzam water is filtered daily through two filtering lines. At the end of each filtering line, there is a sterilization unit which can store a maximum of 10 million liters of filtered Zamzam water. The filtered Zamzam water is then pumped through four water pumps to the Grand Mosque in Makkah via a transmission line having stainless steel pipes of a diameter of 200mm. Part of the filtered Zamzam water is sent for filling water containers. The 13,405-square-meter water container filling factory has a capacity to store 200,000 jerry cans.
