• Al-Ghouri Spring :
Sultan (Qansuwah Al-Ghouri) was the governor of the Hejaz, when he built around the City of Jeddah (which was small at that time), a high wall surrounded it from all sides, and this was in the year (915 Hijri - 1509 AD),and Al-Ghouri worked on solving the problem of water in the city, so, he ordered extensive studies and calculations and spent a lot of money to bring an ongoing spring to water the residents of the city and its visitors,and revive its lifelessness, these studies resulted in water being brought from (Qaus Valley) in the north of (the Rughama), which is about 12 km far from the city, the reign era of Sultan (Qansuwah Al-Ghouri) soon ends, and the Ottoman Sultan(Selim the First ) comes to power in the year of (923 Hijri - 1517 AD),as he came to power, (Al-GhouriSpring) did not stop flowing but its bestowal continued under the same name until the thirteenth Hijri century.
When(Al-GhouriSpring) stopped flowing, Jeddah City fell under the pressure of a huge water crisis, and this was in the year 1270 Hijri, the matter that prompted one of the merchants of Jeddah (FarajYusr), to raise to collect donations, and subsidies from the wealthy of Jeddah, and its notables and merchantmen, to repair the Spring till it overflowed again, and continued to water the human beings of the people of Jeddah, and its visitors for more thirty-four years, till it was exposure to carelessness, and debilitation, so that it stopped again in the year (1302 Hijri -1884 AD).
• Al-Waziriyah Spring :
The government of the Ottoman Sultan (Abd Al-Hamid the Second) paid attention to deliver the water of (Al-WaziriyahSpring), which was conducted by one of the governors of the Turkish Sultanate of the city, and its source is (Al-WaziriyahSpring in the east of Jeddah), and it was named Al-HamidiyahSpring related to Sultan Abd Al-Hamid, then it was renamed again with (Al-Waziriyah eye).
The beginning of the work in the (Al-WaziriyahSpring) was the end of (Al-Ghouri Spring); however, (Al Waziriyah Spring) did not fully meet the needs of the population, because of its salinity due to the proximity of its source to the City of Jeddah , which is close to the salt water of the Red Sea, as the distance that separates (Al Waziriyah Spring) from the City of Jeddah is estimated to be about ten Kilometers only, besides it was much affected by the rain, the more rain was, the more the water validity for drinking was, and contrarily the the water validity for drinking reduced by the reduction of rain, until this spring stopped working in the year (1327 Hijri - 1909 AD).
• The-Kendasa :
With the development of life, and the world entered the age of steam which happened together with the growing role of Jeddah city,-the welcoming relaxing gate of Mecca -as a basic source for pilgrims, and the headquarters of the consuls of foreign countries, The West invented steam distillation machines that turn sea water into drinking water valid for drinking and irrigation.
The Ottoman government saw that the water of (Al-WaziriyahSpring) was insufficient, to meet the needs of the population, so its decision settled to bring this distiller machine, thus it entered the country in the year of (1325 Hijri - 1907 AD), this machine was known among the citizens under the name of (The-Kendasa).
The-Kendasa made a kind of satisfaction and reassurance, due to the existence of water valid for drinking, (especially for foreign communities and consuls of countries), where there was a great demand from them to use this water as it free –from their point of view- of germs, which cisterns and the water of (Al-Azizia Spring) may be exposed to.
But The-Kendasa produces only 300 tons of distilled drinking water daily, which was not sufficient, to meet the needs of the city's population, which was expanding, as Spring as damages that happened to (The-Kendasa), from time to time, the water cut off, so that the drinking and use center returned to the water of (Al-WaziriyahSpring), and other cisterns.
In (1328 Hijri -1910 AD), (The-Kendasa) was disrupted, then repaired, and returned to work, and continued to work intermittently, until it completely stopped working in the year of(1346 Hijri – 1927 AD), The-Kendasa was operated by the coal that was cut off from reaching Jeddah City in the year of( 1343 Hijri - 1344 Hijri), and when the coal was cut off from the city, they burned firewood on it, which accelerated its completely damage in the year of (1346 Hijri - 1927 AD), the matter that prompted the government, to import two large distillation machines, in the same year, to solve the water crisis, and desalination of sea water, but the rise of pilgrims, population growth, and the city's expansion, led to overburden the two machines beyond their ability , which accelerated the damage of one of them.