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Khartoum/ 28/7/ SUNA/ Khartoum State Water Corporation exerts great efforts to cover most of the areas suffering from
water services shortage , by adding 200 000 cubic meter to the water supply services per day making the total designing capacity at the state level reaches 920 000 cubic meter per day. According to the General Manager of Khartoum State Water Corporation ,
eng. Khalid Hassan Ibrahim, the emergency plan for the year 2010 include the inauguration of more water plants , implementing a number of projects , extending the water networks to guaurantee the comprehensive coverage all over the states of the Sudan. Khartoum state water corporation provide its water supply services to the citizens of Khartoum state through a number of the Nile water plants , under ground water wells , dams , hafirs , manual water pumps and surface water wells
Khartoum state water corporation has made a plan to develop the effeciency of the water resources and to rehabilitate it , besides the establishment of a Nile water and underground water resources and has increased the Nile water plants to eight stations instead of five
There are 10 administrative water units where the subscribers numbers reached 500 000 and about 8 million persons benefit from it , meanwhile the produced amounts of water from the Nile stations reaches 1 200 000 cubic meter per day. The corporation is also exerting great efforts to realize a number of objectives to improve the water supply conditions such as conserving the water resources by providing high standard services and protecting the basic water resources and improving the environment, and improving the general health conditions and work to employ the water services economically and to satisfy the customers by providing high quality servies
To realize these objectives the corporation started to implement five water purifying plants in Buri station at a prodiction capacity of 150 000 cubic meter per day , besides inaugurating the new Khartoum water station in Soba, the northern rural area station in Bahri ( Khartoum north) , Jabal Awlia station, and Almanara station in the north of Omdurman which added to the production 418 000 cubic meter per day. The corporation is proceeding at great speed to fulfil the increasing demand of the drinking water in Khartoum state due to the continous increase in the state's population where the subscribers numbers have increased from 402 000 to 500 000 by the end of 2009.