Saudi Arabia is planning to launch the world’s largest potable water project by digging a “river” four meters deep, 11 meters wide and 12,000 kilometers long, aimed at surpassing the Nile river, according to a local reporter and published in Arabian Business.
According to Saudi reporter Ahmad Al Shugairi’s TV series Seen, the project will use anti-corrosion pipes, with each pipe having a diameter of 2.25 meters (roughly 7.5 feet). The pipe system will be one of the world’s largest desalinated water transport networks and is part of a solution to provide potable water to sustain Saudi Arabia’s quickly growing population and developments.
The length of the pipes under the Saudi cities is 126,000 kilometers, “and if it revolved around the world it would circle the world three times, and the amount of water would be 9.4 million cubic meters produced per day.”
“The amount of effort spent to create underground rivers provides us with water in our homes, even though we are in an area that is mostly desert. It is a blessing I was born with, and from getting used to it I forgot it and took it for granted. Thank you to everyone who had a hand that we wake up and find water at home,” Al Shugairi said.
He added: “After a few years, the length of the water pipes will transport this fresh water from one place to another,” indicating that this project be twice the size of the Nile, which is over 6,000 kilometres long.
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