VOL. XXXVIII

NO. 17

23-JANUARY-1995

Financial and Banking News

Regional Banking

Bahrain To Build $80Mn Desalination Plant

Bahrain's Minister of Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. Habib Qasim, told aseminar in Manama on 18 January that the country will build a water desalinationplant valued at BD30mn ($80mn), with financing provided by the private sector.The plant, with a capacity of 30mn gallons/day, is expected to come on streamin November 1997. It would be operated by a private sector company and sell...