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Saudi’s Environment Ministry to Co-sign MoU with US Energy Dept. on Developing Desalination Techniques

Mahmoud Elassal1

Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture and the US Energy Department have discussed co-signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) draft, in the field of developing desalination (saline water conversion) techniques.

The goal set is aiming at consolidating bilateral technical and technological cooperation prospects.

US senior official, Victoria Coates, Adviser to the US Secretary of Energy paid a visit, in this regard, to the Desalination Technologies Research Institute, in Jubail, accompanied by the Director General of the institute Dr. Ahmed Al-Amoudi.