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water The consortium led by Aqualia (45%), which also includes the Spanish company Acciona (25%) and the Saudi service companies Tawzea (23%) and HAACO (7%), has won the public tender for the award of the contract for the mana- gement, operation and maintenan- ce (MOM) of the end-to-end water cycle in the Saudi regions of Asir, Jizan, El Baha and Najran, located in the south of the kingdom, close to the border with Yemen. Aqualia is the official leader of the consor - tium as established in the terms and conditions of the public tender. Aqualia was represented at the signing of the contract by the From left to right, the CEO of Saudi Arabia’s HAACO; Mohammed Halawani, CEO of Tawzea; Nimr bin Muhammed Al-Shebl, CEO of NWC; Javier Díaz, Country Manager of Aqualia in Saudi Arabia; and Julio de la Rosa, Middle East Director of Acciona, during the signing of the contract in Riyadh. company’s International Director, Luis de Lope; the Regional Direc- tor for the Middle East and North Africa, José Enrique Bofill; and Javier Díaz, Aqualia’s Country Ma- nager in Arabia. The CEO of the state-owned National Water Com- pany (NWC) and representatives of the other three companies that make up the consortium were also present. The contract includes the manage- ment of, among other assets, 59 water treatment plants, 380 reser- voirs, 330 pumping stations, 127 tank filling stations, 20,000 kilo - metres of main pipelines, 43 was- tewater treatment plants and 7,000 kilometres of sewerage networks. Moving towards improved mana- gement The South Cluster comprises the four southern provinces of the Mi- ddle Eastern country mentioned above, which have a population of more than five million people in an area equivalent to half the size of Spain, i.e. some 240,000 km2. This is one of the six Saudi Arabian territories into which the state-owned NWC, the client of the contract, has divided the country in order to move towards improved A consortium led by Aqualia will manage water for more than 5 million inhabitants of southern Saudi Arabia B U S I N E S S 12 B U S I N E S S