How Saudi Arabia Gets Water With No Rivers

How Saudi Arabia Gets Water With No Rivers Saudi Arabia has no permanent rivers and no natural freshwater lakes, yet millions of people in Riyadh get water every day. How? In this documentary, we explain fossil groundwater, the desert wheat experiment, desalination, reverse osmosis, thousands of kilometers of pipelines, brine pollution, and the future of water in Saudi Arabia. Would you live in a city whose water comes from machines instead of rivers? Tell us in the comments. ⏱ Chapters: 0:00 Cities without rivers 0:40 Arabia's wet past 1:04 Fossil groundwater 1:20 The desert wheat experiment 2:08 When the aquifers ran dry 2:56 Turning to the sea 3:28 How reverse osmosis works 4:24 Pipelines to Riyadh 5:04 The brine problem 5:36 A fragile system 6:00 Emergency water storage 6:16 Solar, recycling and NEOM 7:12 Cloud seeding 7:44 Rivers of steel 8:24 Would you live here? Subscribe for more documentaries on engineering and the world's strangest infrastructure. #SaudiArabia #Desalination #Documentary