The release of the report coincides with the world's celebrations of World Water Day, which falls on 22 March every year.
Mohammed Hamdan Al Zari, Director of Projects and Guarantees Department at SCI, said that, after a number of extensive studies and field visits that took place during the past years, the project management was able to identify the sites most in need of charitable projects in a manner that serves the poor and deserving people. During 2015, 7,936 wells were dug in 2016, 10,118 during 2017 and 9,957 in 2018, while 9,669 wells were drilled during 2019 compared to 4,626 in 2020, in addition to extending networks between neighbouring villages, thus relieving the residents of their daily suffering due to water scarcity.
Al Zari pointed out that the SCI is aware of the great importance of this project, in light of the drought that afflicts many countries in Africa and Asia, and has provided desalination networks in a large number of countries to provide pure drinking water. He added that the wells varied between electrical, surface, deep and artesian, according to population and geographical nature of the intended region, as well as the required cost, which varies from region to region and from country to country.
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