Solar panels soak up blinding noontime rays that help power a water desalination facility in eastern Saudi Arabia, a step towards making the notoriously emissions-heavy process less environmentally taxing.
The Jazlah plant in Jubail city applies the latest technological advances in a country that first turned to desalination more than a century ago, when Ottoman-era administrators enlisted filtration machines for hajj pilgrims menaced by drought and cholera.
It is the type of innovation that must be scaled up fast, with Prince Mohammed targeting a population of 100 million people by 2040, up from 32.2 million today. But Prince Mohammed also oversaw the birth of the kingdom's modern desalination infrastructure beginning in 1970. "They have already done it in some of the most challenging settings, like massively desalinating on the Red Sea and providing desalinated water up to the highlands of the holy cities in Mecca and Medina," said Laurent Lambert of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.An overview of the challenges and opportunities of the climate crisis, as it changes the world we know.The SWCC says it wants to cut 37 million metric tonnes of carbon emissions by 2025.
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