Rabigh to Jeddah to Makkah Water Transmission System (RJM)
Water transmission pipeline, 1.82 million m3/day design; 1.25 million m3/day on the Rabigh to Jeddah route and 50,000 m3/day on the Rabigh to Mastorah route in Saudi Arabia.
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Rabigh to Makkah
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Water transmission pipeline
- Capacity
- 1.82 million m3/day design; 1.25 million m3/day on the Rabigh to Jeddah route and 50,000 m3/day on the Rabigh to Mastorah route
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, now the Saudi Water Authority
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Water Transmission and Technologies Company
- Finance
- Saudi government capital budget
- Award or start year
- 2021
- Commissioned
- 2022
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2021-06
SWCC set out the scheme and a fourth-quarter 2021 launch
- 2021-11
Trial operations began, reported two months ahead of schedule
- 2022-10
Construction reported complete, with a pipeline leak detection system installed
Sources
3 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Argaam, SWCC prepares for Rabigh-Jeddah-Makkah water transmission system launch in Q4 2021, 26 June 2021. argaam.com.
- a 650 km twin pipeline of 80-inch diameter with four pumping stations and 47 water tanks, carrying 1.82 million m3/day to Makkah, the Holy Sites, Jeddah, Taif and Baha, working alongside the existing Shuaibah systems, electricity use targeted below 2.75 kWh per cubic metre, operations from early 2023. Aesthetix, Saudi's SWCC deploys PLDS solutions from Aesthetix for the RJM Water Transmission System, 19 October 2022. aesthetixglobal.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
describes a 450 km system in the Makkah region running Rabigh to Jeddah at 1.25 million m3/day and Rabigh to Mastorah at 50,000 m3/day, with reservoirs, pumping stations, hydraulic control, communications and a control centre, and states SWCC has completed constructing it. The two sources differ on length and headline capacity and both figures are given. Coordinates left blank because the row describes a corridor rather than a site.