{"id":427636,"date":"2021-07-27T11:20:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T05:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=427636"},"modified":"2021-07-27T11:20:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T05:50:05","slug":"saudi-arabia-suspends-privatisation-of-desalination-and-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-arabia-suspends-privatisation-of-desalination-and-power-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia suspends privatisation of desalination and power plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has suspended the privatisation of the Ras Al Khair desalination and power plant, one of a number of state assets that the government aimed to sell to reduce pressure on capital spending and diversify revenues away from oil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This decision was made in order to capitalise on knowledge and capacity built in the Kingdom as a result of many years of experience in the areas of water desalination, new technologies, R&amp;D (research and development) and supply chains&#8221;, said the Privatization Supervisory Committee for the Environment, Water and Agriculture sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has suspended the privatisation of the Ras Al Khair desalination and power plant, one of a number of state assets that the government aimed to sell to reduce pressure on capital spending and diversify revenues away from oil. &#8220;This decision was made in order to capitalise on knowledge and capacity built in the Kingdom as a result of many years of experience in the areas of water desalination, new technologies, R&amp;D (research and development) and supply chains&#8221;, said the Privatization Supervisory Committee for the Environment, Water and Agriculture sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}