His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, announced on September 04, 2023 that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is establishing a Global Water Organization, to be headquartered in Riyadh. The aim of developing and integrating the efforts of countries and organizations to address water challenges in a comprehensive manner.
Establishing a Global Water Organization plans to exchange expertise, advance technology, foster innovation, and share research and development experiences with different organizations and countries to address water challenges.
The organization seeks to promote the establishment and funding of high-priority projects, ensuring the sustainability of water resources and their accessibility for everyone.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia emphasizes its commitment to addressing global water supply challenges. The initiative is aligned with Saudi Arabia's dedication to environmental sustainability.
The Kingdom has provided decades of global expertise in producing, transporting and distributing water, innovating technical solutions to its challenges, and ensuring that global water issues remain a top priority on the international agenda.
The Kingdom has provided over $6 billion in developmental funding allocated to various water and sanitation projects across four continents.
The organization aims to collaborate with countries facing water-related challenges and those prioritizing such projects on their national agendas. This collaboration will also involve countries with significant expertise and contributions to water solutions. Such cooperation becomes even more vital with projections of the global water demand doubling by 2050, in light of the anticipated growth of the world population to 9.8 billion according to estimates.
The Kingdom, with all of the organization’s member countries, seeks to contribute to achieving the water security-related sustainable development goals, creating an integrated and long-lasting impact by bringing the international community together to ensure global water sustainability for humanity.
