Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — The Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) will decommission its controversial chimneys as part of its ongoing clean environment project, Al-Hayat newspaper reported. Two chimneys will be taken out of service before November and the rest will be removed by 2019 when work on the desalination plant in Rabigh is expected to complete. The SWCC also announced that an additional 500,000 cubic meters of desalinated water will be available for this Haj season as new storage tanks have become operational. SWCC's deputy governor for operations and maintenance, Mohammad Al-Ghamdi, said the corporation is currently conducting maintenance of its electricity and water desalination plants. He added that the main role of the SWCC is to produce desalinated water according to international drinking water standards. Al-Ghamdi said the heat units at the plants produce pollutant gases, which are treated in accordance with international standards. He said the new technology the SWCC is set to use will prevent the emission of 2 million tons of carbon gases into the atmosphere. The Jeddah desalination plant is the first water plant in the Kingdom to apply the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) defined in the Kyoto Protocol to cut carbon dioxide emissions.