VOL. XLV

No 45

11-November-2002

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Ministry of Water Prepares National Water Plan

The Saudi Minister of Water, Ghazi al-Qusaibi, has announced that a national water plan for the kingdom will be ready in three years and that an advisory committee headed by himself and including experts has been set up to assist in the drawing up of the water plan. He said that the ministrys priority was to study the existing tariff rates (although no increase is envisaged at present), deal with...