CAIRO: Saudi Arabia will host the fifth ministerial level talks of Muslim countries on water next year, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Wednesday.
Saudi Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture, AbdulRahman Al-Fadli, who is in Cairo to attend the meeting of the Water Council of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries invited the delegates for a meeting in Kingdom.
The ministerial-level meeting of the OIC’s Water Council is currently being held in Cairo.
Al-Fadli said that cooperation with OIC member states was of great interest to the Saudi government, and that he looked forward to a collaboration to achieve water security and sustainable development.
He added that the Kingdom had sought to develop and enable the country’s water sector to overcome challenges.
The strategy’s objectives include ensuring continuous access to adequate quantities of safe water, under normal operations and during emergency situations, according to the Saudi ministry’s website.
Saudi Arabia has limited reserves of non-renewable groundwater which are getting rapidly depleted.
