The Kingdom's total annual consumption of water amounted to about 2,5 billion cubic meters in 2012, with an average per capita consumption of about 238 liters per day, compared to about 2,4 billion cubic meters in 2011, with an average per capita consumption of about 259 liters per day. The 49th annual report issued recently by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) pointed out that the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) produced approximately 997,2 million cubic meters of water in 2012 compared to 1054,1 million cubic meters in 2011 with an average daily production of about 2725,000 cubic meters. It also indicated that the estimates of the average amount of water consumed in 2012 amounted to 6,9 million cubic meters per day, compared with about 6.6 million cubic meters per day in 2011, up by 4.,5 %. On dams, the report said that its number across the Kingdom until the end of 2012 reached 422 dams with a storage capacity of 1,97 billion cubic meters of water, compared to 394 dams in 2011, with a storage capacity 1.93 billion cubic meters of water. At the level of the electricity sector, the SAMA report pointed to higher sales of the Saudi Electricity Company of energy in 2012, up by 9.7 % from 2011 to register about 240,3 million megawatt hourly, topped by residential consumption which amounted to 50,1 % or 120466070 megawatt / hourly out of the total electricity consumption in the Kingdom.
