<The Acting Director of the Riyadh City Business Unit, Engineer Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Alshaya, explained that the quantities of water pumped into the network in Riyadh are in accordance with normal rates, indicating that the significant improvements achieved in the areas of increasing operational efficiency and achieving higher efficiency in maintenance work led to an improvement in the level of services provided to the company's customers in the city of Riyadh. Al-Shaya stated that the increase in water quantities in Riyadh by 190,000 cubic meters per day, in coordination with the Saline Water Desalination Corporation to increase the quantities of desalinated and imported water to the city of Riyadh, in addition to the quantities of water pumped daily from existing and new underground wells so that the total pumping currently becomes 1.8 million cubic meters per day, instead of 1.65 million cubic meters per day, making it a record pumping rates not reached during the past years. The Acting Director of Riyadh Business Unit explained that the company implemented an early action plan to cope with the increasing demand during the summer, which included investing 22 new water wells to support water sources in Riyadh, to enhance water reserves and meet the growing demand for water, as well as reducing the average days of pumping stops for the neighborhoods of the city of Riyadh, in addition to implementing a programmed plan to maintain water stations and pumping booster stations, improve the water network, detect and repair leaks, improve the operating efficiency of filling stations (Ashyab), improve the ability to distribute water throughout the city, and control pressure through the installation of regulator valves. Alshaya said that the filling stations in Riyadh are witnessing a major development stage through the implementation of a number of systems that contribute to meeting the needs of customers, stressing that the demand for water tanks decreased by 50% at the level of filling stations in Riyadh, which reflects the improved operational situation in the network and the decrease in demand for water.

Riyadh's filling stations.