The government of the Ottoman Sultan (Abdelhamid II) paid attention to the delivery of the water (al-Al-Oriya), which had been carried out by one of the Sultanate's governors in the city, and its origin (Bir al-Ahmadiyah, east of Jeddah). The beginning of the work (with the Al-Uriya eye), the end of the eye of al-Gori, but the (Al-Oriya) did not meet the whole needs of the population, because of a percentage of salinity, due to the proximity of its source from the city of Jeddah, which in turn close to the Red Sea salt water, where the distance, which separates The city of Jeddah, just about 10 kilometers away, and it was very affected by the rain, the more rain the more the freshness of the water, and conversely less freshness by the lack of rain, until this eye stopped working year (1327-1909).