The City of Riyadh, capital city of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is one of
the fastest growing cities in the world, with a growth rate of over 8 percent per
year, and a current population of 3.5 million. Riyadh is projected to grow to at
least 10.5 million by the year 2021. The City is located in an arid zone, with
minimal precipitation and an extremely high rate of annual evaporation.Water
resources for Riyadh are mostly imported by pipeline from a desalination plant
located 460 km (300 miles) to the East, at the coastal city of Jubail and
supplemented with brackish groundwater. The need for provision of a supporting
infrastructure for this fast rate of growth is well recognized by the Kingdom's
authorities. The Metropolitan Development Strategy for ArRiyadh (MEDSTAR) began
in 1996. This comprehensive planning effort is a dynamic process providing for
the infrastructure and management support needed to guide the anticipated growth
in a rational, environmentally sound and economic manner. During the early
development of strategic options, a large number of alternative scenarios were
analyzed by the MEDSTAR Team. The results pointed to the need for systems that
would utilize water most efficiently and minimize its wastage principally with
the objective of attaining a more sustainable management of the City's precious
water resources. This paper discusses the integration of urban water reuse
alternatives into the water and wastewater infrastructure which has become an
essential strategic component of the plan. The water reuse component of the
integrated water cycle system is expected to have an ultimate capacity of 1.5
million cubic meters per day (400 mgd). Includes tables, appendix.
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| Number of Pages : | 18 |
| Published : | 01/01/2000 |
