LSEHL in the French city of Lyon, the Group is licensed and authorized by the French Ministry of Health to work in the analysis of drinking water, noting that the results of the laboratories analyses last March of this year said, "According to drinking water standards in France and based on the analyses conducted on the samples of Zamzam water, this water is fit for human consumption". The Embassy reaffirmed that Saudi Arabia has not exported Zamzam water and that the presence of people in the United Kingdom engaged in the trade of selling Zamzam water is the responsibility of the competent authorities in the United Kingdom in dealing with them. It pointed out that writing on the bottles the words of Zamzam water does not mean that they contain Zamzam water which is pure, exists in the Holy Makkah and flows from King Abdullah Ibn Abdulaziz's Project for Zamzam Watering, supervised by the Ministry of Water and Electricity in Saudi Arabia. In this context, the Embassy affirmed the interest and keenness of the Government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Ibn Abdulaziz on the provision of a fully pure Zamzam water, noting that the King inaugurated the project named after him, in the Holy Makkah on September 04, 2010, to ensure the purity of Zamzam water in implementation of the most modern global methods, as well as its automatic bottling and distribution. It indicated that the project costs' amounted to SR 700 million. --More
