Omani authorities will spend 1.6 billion Omani riyals (US$ 4.2 billion) on utility and water projects in the governorate of Muscat in the upcoming years. Omar Al-Wuhaibi, Chief Executive Officer of Oman Wastewater Services Company, said in a press statement on Sunday that the forecast spending would cover projects, including water treatment plants and water networks, in the Muscat region till 2017. Overall cost of the projects, currently under execution in various regions of the sultanate, has amounted to 562 million riyals, he was quoted as saying by KUNA. Moreover, the company is currently building a central water treatment plant in the region of Bosher. The station, whose construction is projected to cost 36 million riyals, is designed to put out 55 cubic meters of water per day. The company is also building several water networks in the region. It is also constructing a central station for waste water treatment in the region of Al-Seeb. It will initially put out 60,000 cm of water per day.
