UNESCO funded a water
desalination research chair that will be based at King Saud University in the
desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization funding of the chair in
Riyadh will help officials assess “long-term decisions involving capital
necessary to avert any shortage of water supply and resources,” the university
said in a statement.
Saudi Arabia, whose
oilfields hold a fifth of the world’s reserves, aims to use solar energy to
desalinate seawater and build nuclear reactors as it seeks to cut the amount of
crude it burns in generators for power and to increase water supplies.
Saudi Arabia has almost 30
desalination plants in which salt and minerals are extracted from seawater and
transported through 2,500 miles of pipelines, according to Ziad Aldress,
Saudi’s ambassador to UNESCO, who said the new chair will help boost the
desalination industry
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