MIDDLE EAST IN BRIEF

摘要

1.The submissions deadline for offers to carry out studies and provide tender assistance and works supervision for the rehabilitation of Hyflux's 500,000 m~3/d Mactaa desalination plant in Algeria has been extended until 2nd August. 2.Israel has agreed to sell an extra 50 million m3 of water to drought-hit Jordan over the next year, doubling the amount sold or provided to the country. 3.Tadawul-listed Saudi water specialist Alkhorayef WPT has secured an $84.4 million contract with the Saudi National Water Company to connect new water and wastewater customers. 4.The Saudi central water privatisation body SWPC has issued a request for expressions of interest in developing a 2.5 million m~3 strategic reservoir at Juranah, near Mecca.