Desalination and water treatment engineering
Postgraduate- You study
- Membrane technologies, Water chemistry
- Jobs
- Desalination engineer
- Average for the engineering field · Age 25–29
- 11,200SAR
Average monthly pay in the engineering field for Saudi bachelor’s holders, GASTAT Labour Force Survey 2024 (1445–1446 AH)3; many earn less. Pay in a first job is usually lower.
Forecasts published in other countries for the occupation Civil engineers: roughly stable (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, August 2026 (Safar – Rabi' al-Awwal 1448 AH); Employment and Social Development Canada, June 2025 · Dhu al-Hijjah 1446 – Muharram 1447 AH)1,2. They are not a forecast for the Saudi market, nor by DataPulse.
Where is Desalination and water treatment engineering taught?
We found no programme for it at Saudi universities so far.
What do Desalination and water treatment engineering students learn?
Turn seawater into drinking water, and treat and reuse wastewater.
- Membrane technologies
- Water chemistry
- Desalination plants
- Water reuse
In Arabic: هندسة تحلية المياه ومعالجتها
What jobs do Desalination and water treatment engineering graduates do?
Examples of graduates’ jobs, not a full or ranked list. A job is an occupation; the major is one route to it:
- Desalination engineer
- Water treatment engineer
- Plant operations engineer
- Water quality engineer
Professional classification with the Saudi Council of Engineers.
What do Desalination and water treatment engineering graduates earn?
GASTAT does not publish pay for each major; this is the average for the “Engineering, manufacturing and construction” field among Saudi bachelor’s holders, 2024 (1445–1446 AH)3.
What is unemployment in the engineering field?
Unemployment among Saudi graduates of the field (bachelor’s, all ages)3:
For the whole field, not this major alone. Past measurement, not a forecast.
Why is Desalination and water treatment engineering listed?
Example programmes abroad
- IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, MSc Water and Sustainable Development
- Cranfield University, Water and Wastewater Processes MSc
- The Saudi Water Authority is the largest desalinated water producer in the world, at more than 11 million cubic metres a day.4
References
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment projections for “Environmental engineers” (BLS 17-2081), 2025–2035 (1446–1457 AH).
- Employment and Social Development Canada, Canadian Occupational Projection System, “Civil engineers” (COPS 21300), 2024–2033 (1445–1455 AH).
- General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), Labour Force Survey: Saudi bachelor’s holders in “Engineering, manufacturing and construction”, 2024 (1445–1446 AH).
- Saudi Water Authority, 2025 (1446–1447 AH).