Saudi water bodies win awards in Kuala Lumpur

Sharakat, the Saudi water PPP company (the Saudi Water Partnership Company, SWPC), said on 17 October that it won three prizes at the Asian Water Awards 2026, run by Asian Power magazine: Water Agency Excellence, and PPP Project Initiative of the Year for the Rabigh 4 independent water project (about 600,000 cubic metres a day, Makkah region) and for the Rayis-Rabigh water transmission project (about 500,000 cubic metres a day, Madinah region). Arab News reported on 18 October that the Saudi Water Authority won five awards at the Kuala Lumpur event and the Asian Power Awards, including Innovation of the Year for a system that extracts magnesium from seawater at the Shuaibah plant. The award descriptions come from the winners' own releases; the organisers' criteria were not published in either source.