Under the patronage of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Minister of Water and Electricity and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saline Water Conversion Corporation Abdullah Alhosain opened here today the "Conference on Water Desalination in the Arab Countries." Speeches were delivered on the occasion. They focused on efforts to privatize and restructure the corporation and the importance of water desalination.