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UAE
Ecolab helps companies save 47.9bn liters of water in 2023 in Middle East, Africa and India
The company’s water saving programme is designed to help companies to advance sustainable business growth while meeting climate and water goals
climate change
Panama Canal to restrict vessel traffic into 2024 due to water shortage, says operator
The canal’s board of directors is reviewing a plan to create an additional reservoir to support future water demand for the waterway and Panama itself
Sustainable Water Supply
Saudi Arabia announces Global Water Organisation
Saudi Arabia aims to tackle global water sustainability concerns
Mumbai
Mumbai residents to face water cut from July 1
Decision comes as Mumbai the stock in lakes supplying water to Mumbai is only about 7 per cent
Clean water
Knowing the true worth of water
Climate change, conflict and economic instability only exacerbate the existent pressure on the food-water-energy nexus – the core of our sustainable future
climate change
Egyptians showering less amid sky-high energy prices, survey reveals
According to a survey, in three out of nine countries, individuals have changed their showering habits to save water and energy costs
Abu Dhabi
Desalination investment across Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain crosses the $2 billion mark
Annual growth rate of the water desalination sector is at 3 percent in line with the UAE’s plans to meet the growing national demand for water and electricity, the Minister for Energy and Infrastructure said
circular economy
Water in the circular economy needs sustainable financing
Demands on public finance in emerging markets have increased across sectors and priorities are continuously changing
Clean water
How start-ups are turning water problems into big business
There are some great young minds taking clean water issue more seriously than the previous generation
Ali Sajwani
Water, the currency of our future?
When people think of limited, valuable natural resources, oil is mostly the commodity that first springs to mind. As a finite, non-renewable resource, the possibility of consuming the entire existing supply of crude oil is entirely possible, and the date we reach ‘peak oil’ – the point of no return, when we’ve begun to hit […]
Artificial rainfall
Everything you need to know about the UAE’s cloud seeding initiatives
The strategy is part of the government’s bid to address the water needs of the UAE’s growing population
AB Live
WETEX 2019: Addressing the Middle East’s water security woes
WETEX is the leading global Water, Energy, Technology and Environment Exhibition, organised by DEWA since 1999.
climate change
Opinion: Running out of water
As major cities around the world face running out of a basic yet vital resource, is now the time for the UAE to reconsider its water habits?
Desalination
UN says Gulf’s thirst for water causing toxic brine problem
United Nations scientists warn that desalination is creating huge volumes of chemical-laced brine that risks contaminating food chains
diet
First halophytic vegetables being grown in the UAE
International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture says project aims to grow produce without using fresh water
ACWA Power
Deals signed for $155m Oman water project
Salalah Independent Water Project will play key role in meeting Dhofar’s rising demand for water