Kuwait slowly ramped up its desalination capacity from 1950 to 1970 (see figure 9). The introduction of MSF desalination in the early 1970s increased Kuwait’s uptake of desalination, reaching some 2.4 million m3/day in 2008. In the 1970s, the Government of Saudi Arabia established the Saline Water Conversion Corporation, which represents the largest desalination enterprise in the world, aimed at managing two desalination plants on opposite coasts at the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf.