Hussayen explained that the projects will be carried out in phases and it would initially launched in the capital at Al-Kharj sewage plant and in Jeddah. Subsequently, it will be extended to Dammam and Alkhobar and Madinah. SWCC Governor Fehied ibn Fahd Alshariff said, following a detailed study submitted by his organization, that the government has taken an encouraging step to delegate the corporation's projects to the private sector to reap better results. Under its privatization program, the SWCC will become a holding company and distribute its various projects to private sector companies that could not only continue operations but could also set up a separate plant to replace the ageing plants. The Kingdom is the biggest desalinated water producer in the world.