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Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction has won a US$850 million contract to build what will be the worldĄŻs largest desalination plant in Saudi Arabia, the company said Thursday.
The contract is part of the Shuaiba-3 project to build a power plant and desalination plant by June 2009 in the town some 110 km south of the Red Sea port of Jeddah.
The plant will provide 880,000 tons of fresh water a day for 3 million people including residents of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, who now often face days without running water, and the three oil-fired steam power plants will supply 917 megawatts of electricity.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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