Saudi Arabia has started laying out 1,350 km of water pipes across the capital city as part of the Green Riyadh programme.
This comes as part of its efforts to carry 1.7 million cu m of treated water daily to irrigate the city.
The aim is to achieve sustainable green spaces for the Green Riyadh projects and other development projects in the city.
The diameter of the primary pipes ranges from 1.2 to 2.4 m.
The Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture, the Saudi Irrigation Organisation, and the National Water Company will help share programmes and plans among the authorities concerned with public utilities.
One of the main enablers to achieve a Green Riyadh is building water networks based on the principle of sustainability by using 100% treated water for irrigation.
The Green Riyadh programme is one of Riyadh's four megaprojects launched by Saudi King Salman.
Its goal is to plant more than 7.5 million trees in Riyadh city, increasing the green coverage of Riyadh to 9.1%, and increase the per capita share of green spaces from 1.7 sq m to 28 sq m, 16 times its current level.
The programme also aims to improve the urban environment of the city of Riyadh through the greening of residential neighbourhoods, thus helping achieve the goals of Saudi Vision 2030 and the Saudi Green Initiative of planting 10 billion trees nationwide in the coming decades.
New water pipelines to be laid as part of Saudi green initiative
