An agreement with a British company to distil seawater, signed toward the end of the reign of Sheikh Mubarak, was not implemented. With the rapid growth of population, however, the government of Kuwait built the first modern desalination plant in Kuwait city in 1953, followed by other ones. The Doha region had two desalination plants, whose capacity reached 138 million imperial gallons per day. A third plant was set up nearby for desalination through reverse osmosis, but it was completely destroyed by the Iraqi aggressors in 1990, thus depriving the people of their daily consumption of potable water, which is one of their vital resources. The hot water gate in the desalination plant of Al-Doha appears in the photo.
Sea water flows to the plant through a number of pipes extended three miles into the sea.
The condensing hot water resulting from the process comes out through a gate near the coast. The difference in density between hot water and sea water is obvious in the photo. This achievement illustrates the victory of human will armed with science to solve the various problems that face mankind.