The Court of Appeal has ordered Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahramaa) to pay a sum of $225,000 to one of its employees for the cost of his treatment abroad and end-of-service gratuity, local Arabic daily Al Watan has reported.
The employee had a liver transplant operation in China that cost over $200,000. He had worked at Kahramaa for 17 years and filed a case in the Court of First Instance for compensation after the corporation declined his request to pay for treatment expenses and gratuity.  The court had rejected the case due to incomplete documents.

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About Kahramaa


Kahramaa (Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation), was established in July 2000 to regulate and maintain supply of electricity and water to customers. Since inception, Kahramaa has operated as an independent corporation on a commercial basis with a total capital of eight billion Qatari riyals. Kahramaa is the sole transmission and distribution system owner and operator for the electricity and water sector in Qatar.

 

Electricity sector
The electricity transmission networks consist of approximately 100 primary high voltage sub-stations with total 660 km of overhead lines supported by 600 kilometres (370 mi) of underground cables across the country. The network is coupled with 6500 low and medium voltage sub-stations (11 kV) and more than 4,500 kilometres (2,800 mi) of cable lines. The National Control Center manages all network demand and data acquisition from generation plants and primary sub-stations.

Electricity demand
Demand on the electrical energy in Qatar has increased over the past fifty years; the maximum load over the network during the period from 1988 to 2003 has risen from 941 MW to 2,312 MW. It has reached 3,230 MW in 2006 and expected to increase to 8,400 MW by 2011.

Water sector
The water network in Qatar has been expanded extensively in recent years, the growth of urban areas; industry and agriculture has led to the increase in the length of the water network to 3,622 kilometres (2,251 mi) and expansion in the number of storage reservoirs to 23 with a total capacity of 259 million imperial gallons (1,180,000 m3) of potable water a day.

Water demand
Statistical data in the water sector shows a remarkable growth in the capacities of water storage facilities. To give a comparative trend, such an increase has amounted to 259 million imperial gallons (1,180,000 m3) a year in comparison to less than 200 million imperial gallons (910,000 m3) in 1988.

Water quality
To ensure safe and clean drinking water to high standards and quality, water is subject to daily random bacteriological and laboratory tests undertaken by Kahramaa. Samples are collected and tested from the storage reservoirs and networks up to the customers' storage facilities.