15, Saudi Arabia will be the largest investor in new treatment capacity followed by the UAE and Kuwait. The good news for wastewater providers is that the cost of building this extra capacity is likely to fall by 20-30 per cent in 2009, as a result of declining material prices and increasing contractor competition, due to contracting workloads. “These costs reductions will encourage the region's utilities to press ahead with their works programs again, after serious delays were experienced in the final quarter of 2008 and the early 2009, due to the intense uncertainty over costs and in some cases, the future demand outlook,” the report said.
