Diam opens new water station in Qurayyat

MUSCAT: The Public Authority for Electricity and Water (Diam) on Tuesday operated potable water pumping stations in the Wilayat of Qurayyat by stretching 1,200mm and 1,600 mm water pipes in a distance of 55 km to Daim Al Amerat reservoir in the Wilayat of Al Amerat at a cost of RO 55 million.

Diam hosted journalists and media persons to acquaint them about its the efforts it is making to achieve water security. The visit included the strategic water transmission pipelines from Qurayyat to Muscat city.

Engineer Abdullah bin Ahmed al Arafati from the National Water Control and Monitoring Centre presented a visual display explaining that Diam currently dependent on the existing Al Ghubra Plant and the mobile desalination plant in Al Ghubra, the new Al Ghubra Plant, the Suhar Desalination Plant, Barka desalination plants 1, 2 and 3.

A set of desalination plants will be operation during the current year and are expected to meet the demand for water. The most notable of these plants are: the Qurayyat Desalination Plant. The new Suhar Desalination Plant and Barka 4. This is in addition to the Ibri Desalination Plant which will be opened in 2019. Besides, four more desalination plants will be opened in 2021 in Jaalan Bani Bu Ali in South Al Sharqiyah Governorate, Masirah Island, the Wilayat of Khasab in Musandam Governorate and Wadi Dayqah, Al Arafati said.