41.6 Billion Gallons Of Water Produced During The Crisis Of Corona

The assistant undersecretary of the electric power and water distillation stations in the Ministry of Electricity, Al-Fareej, stated that the Ministry, under the directives of the Minister of Oil, Minister of Electricity and Water, Dr. Khaled Al-Fadil, and the efforts of the workers, has continued to produce drinking water through seawater desalination plants deployed in Kuwait, which are the Az-Zawar Southern, Northern, Eastern, Eastern, and Sabah plants. Al-Shuaiba and Shuwaikh. As the amount of water produced during the past three months, March, April and May (41.6) billion gallons of desalinated water during the period of the Corona pandemic and still is.

Where the production of water from seawater desalination plants faced many difficulties during the previous period of partial and total embargo, and some maintenance contractors stopped and injuries of some of the station employees during that period. The Ministry also faced this pandemic by applying contingency plans to stations with several procedures, including dividing operating shifts into two parts and periods of work that change every two weeks. Spacing and temperature measures were applied to all stations entering, sterilizing staff’s locations continuously and providing the necessary medical sterilization materials according to health instructions and work. Continuous visits, awareness, and inquiries from the Ministry of Health to the operating stations.

The maintenance programs for desalination units for this year also faced many difficult challenges, including the presence of technical cadres from the ministry and work within health conditions, the availability of necessary labor for contractors, partial and total bans, injury to some workers, demand for securing water demand, maintaining the strategic water reserve and providing the necessary preventive health materials constantly For station workers. In spite of this, the water production continued to meet the demand, and the maintenance program of desalination units was almost also completed for this year, according to the program, where the completion rate reached 98% of the maintenance program for the desalination units. The maintenance program for the desalination plants included (55) distilleries In addition to the reverse osmosis units in the southern Az-Zour and Shuwaikh plants

 

SOURCE : ALANBA

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