01 April 2017

Qatar has announced that the Ras Abu Fontas A3 – the country’s first water desalination project with reverse osmosis technology – is nearly complete.

The first phase of the project was completed in September 2016 and final phase of the project with a capacity of 36 million gallons of water per day (mgpd) will be delivered soon at a total cost of QR1.75 billion ($480 million), reported The Peninsula, citing a senior minister.

More than 75 per cent of the construction work has been completed on the Umm Al Houl power project. A major portion of the plant is expected to be ready in 2017 and final completion – with a capacity of 2,520 MW of electricity and 136.5 mgpd of water – is expected by July 2018.

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