[사우디아라비아] 경제개혁 일환으로 담수화 전략 설정

사우디아라비아는 민간업체에 의한 담수화 생산 비율을 현재16%에서 2020년 52%까지 늘릴 계획이라고 밝혔다.

목표치는 국가개조사업(NTP)의 일부를 담당하는 물과 담수화 영역을 위한 전략적 목적 중 하나로, 국가개조사업(NTP)은 석유 의존적인 사우디아라비아를 재구성하려는 의도의 대대적 경제개혁 프로그램이다.

환경·물·농업부를 위한 16개의 전략목표 중 2가지는 담수화와 관련됐다. 민영업체에서도 현재 0%에서 향후 20%까지 정수과정을 거친 물 시장점유율을 높이기 위해 조직적인 개발과 민영화 목표를 가지고 정부에 도전장을 내밀고 있다. 민영업체는 또한 2020년까지 도시지역 폐수시설 서비스를 현재 42%에서 향후 70%까지 확대할 계획이다.

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Saudi Arabia outlines desalination strategy as part of economic reforms

Saudi Arabia is to increase the proportion of desalinated water produced by private operators from 16 to 52 per cent by 2020.

The target is among the strategic objectives for the water and desalination sectors that form part of the country’s National Transformation Plan (NTP), a sweeping programme of economic reform that aims to reposition Saudi Arabia away from its reliance on oil.
 
Two of 16 strategic objectives set for the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture refer to desalination. The objective on organisational development and privatisation also challenges the Ministry to increase the share of treated water produced by private operators from zero to 20 per cent, and to extend water and sewage services to 70 per cent of cities, up from 42 per cent, by 2020.
 
Privatisation of Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation was first mooted in January 2015, and received the green light on approval of the NTP on Monday 6 June. A big part of the NTP’s thrust on economic reform is to reduce levels of public ownership across the board, as well as to develop local manufacturing and to reduce imports.
 
The NTP additionally sets an objective to boost water storage resources and security, including raising available capacity of surface and underground water from 4.1 to 6.1 million m3/d; increasing available capacity of desalinated water from 5.1 to 7.3 billion m3/d; and extending the duration of strategic water storage from 0.4 to 3 days, by 2020.
 
The NTP is underpinned by a raft of other initiatives that include reducing water leakage, localising water technology, and increasing local spare parts capacity.

[출처 = Desalination & Water Reuse / 2016년 6월 14일]