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​His Excellency the Minister of Electricity and Water Affairs, Eng. Wael bin Nasser Al-Mubarak, Sheikh Nawaf bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, CEO of the Electricity and Water Authority, and Engineer Saleh Tarrada, Chairman of the Capital Trust Council, visited the Nabih Saleh Water Distribution Station, whose construction has been completed and work is currently underway on the inauguration of the panels system. Solar system on the upper reservoir, which comes within the water transmission network development project for the first phase.

 The construction of this station comes within the master plan set by the Electricity and Water Authority to develop and expand water transmission networks in the Kingdom of Bahrain under the directives of the esteemed government headed by His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Secretary-Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and Prime Minister, may God protect him, to provide my services. Electricity and water, meet the growing demand for its uses for the purposes of development, industrial and commercial expansion, and the continuous endeavor to provide better service to citizens and residents in the Kingdom, and work to attract foreign investments to the Kingdom that are in line with the Kingdom of Bahrain Economic Vision 2030.

In this context, the Minister of Electricity and Water Affairs stated that this project comes within the efforts of the Electricity and Water Authority to increase and enhance the storage capacity and to reinforce the water transmission network for the Nabih Saleh area and meet its needs, including housing and service projects, in a way that contributes to achieving the authority’s strategic goals to keep pace with the growing demand for electricity and water services. He explained that the authority, and based on the directives of the esteemed government, continues to implement development projects that support the infrastructure in a way that contributes to the sustainable development of the quality and level of its services provided to subscribers.

 For his part, the Authority’s CEO stated that this project is part of the authority’s ongoing projects to develop the water transmission network for the first phase, as an upper tank with a capacity of one million gallons was established with pipelines and associated valves, as well as the construction of a building containing electrical devices, control devices and a chlorine water treatment system.

 Adding, "The design of the station has taken into account the use of solar energy to generate electricity to operate the station equipment with clean electrical energy produced from solar panels installed on the upper tank, which contain 702 solar cell panels designed to produce about 253 kilowatts (maximum) of clean electrical energy that covers The needs of the station, and the export of surplus electric power to the electricity distribution network, and the upper reservoir was covered with aluminum sheets in consideration of the urban character of the region.

 Nass Contracting Company has constructed all station facilities and supplied them with the latest mechanical, electrical, control and communication equipments from leading international companies in this field. Ahmed Mansour Al-Aali Company also carried out the work of covering the upper tank and installing solar panels. The cost of the complete construction works for Nabih Saleh station was about 3.5 million dinars. The British consultancy Mott MacDonald supervised the project.