Infiltration of water into the underground / major role in water resources management in arid regions / arid climate zones requires an optimized usage of the water resources.

Water supply and demand patterns do not fit. Water supply schemes may fail, backup is needed. Water storage in dams causes high evaporation losses. Water storage in tanks is very costly.
• 3 recharge & recovery schemes
• 315 recovery wells
• 117 monitoring wells
• 3 infiltration basins
• 3 pumping stations and 3 reservoirs
• 155 km connection pipelines from wells to reservoirs

160 km C.S. transmission pipelines (DN 900 & DN 1,200), 1 downstream pumping station,

Overall SCADA system connecting all ASR infrastructure components Functionality:
• Supply of 1,000,000 residents with 182 liters of drinking water per capita and
     day over a period of up to 90 days
• Recharge: 7 MIGD (~ 32,000 m3/d) of desalinated seawater for 27 months
• Recovery: 40 MIGD (~ 182,000 m3/d) of groundwater for 90 days
• Location: Liwa Desert (~ 225 km from Abu Dhabi)
• Strategic water reserve