Dubai Electricity and Water Authority announced today that it plans to construct three new reservoirs to increase the emirate’s water security.
The reservoirs will cost around $150 million and store desalinated water, the official Emirates News Agency reported.
Water desalination is the process by which salt is removed from ocean water to create fresh water that can be treated further and be safely used for drinking.
The Egyptian government announced May 26 its decision to expand seawater desalination projects in the upcoming period by building 14 new plants.
This comes amid the faltering negotiations on the GERD, as Ethiopia is getting ready to implement the third filling phase of the dam’s reservoir.
Desalination projects have always been a contentious issue in Monterey County and a proposal that will be mulled by elected officials Tuesday afternoon is sure to raise the eyebrows of advocates for publicly owned desal projects.
The idea that will be presented to the Board of Supervisors during its afternoon session beginning at 1:30 p.m. is an amendment to an existing ordinance allowing only public ownership of desal plants rather than private ownership.
Tuesday’s action won’t approve or deny the ordinance, rather it will allow supervisors to give the nod […]
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli chaired a meeting on Sunday to follow up the execution of cooperation protocols between the ministry of housing and the Armed Forces Engineering Authority (AFEA) to carry out a number of projects in various sectors.
Upon their completion and entry into service, the projects are expected to improve efficiency of public services, Madbouli said.
Meanwhile, Assistant to AFEA President Ahmed Shiha briefed the premier on the progress made in the projects undertaken by the authority for the housing ministry, including those funded by the ministry or […]
The Saudi water sector is moving towards increasing its hydrogen production as companies try to find creative ways to tackle climate change.
“We are the main producers of water, which is the main source of hydrogen,” said Carlos Cosin.
Cosin made these remarks during an interview with Arab News at a conference for the desalination sector in Jeddah last month.
The project will provide 5,000 tons of fresh water per day to Gwadar residents and enterprises, greatly mitigating water shortage.
In his speech, PM thanked China for its assistance and the hard work of Chinese builders.
He said that China had donated solar power equipment to thousands of families in Gwadar and will also help building a desalination plant.
WABAG a leading pure-play water technology company said it has secured a consortium Design, Build, Operate (DBO) order, for the 50 MLD Mamelles Sea Water desalination project from Societe Nationale Des Eaux du Senegal (SONES), the national water company of Senegal, worth ab out 146 million Euro.
The scope of WABAG under this order will be engineering and procurement and operation and maintenance, which is worth about one third of the consortium order value.
WABAG’s EP scope includes Design, Engineering and Supply of Electromechanical equipment, supervision of Installation and Commissioning followed […]
Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly held a meeting Wednesday with Head of the National Center for Planning State Land Uses, Nasser Fawzy, and Deputy Chairperson of the Holding Company for Drinking Water and Sanitation, Assam Shoukr.
The meeting was held in order to follow up on the position of the lands to be offered to the private sector for the establishment of seawater desalination plants.
At the beginning of the meeting, Madbouly stressed the need to exert maximum efforts to provide ready-made lands for the establishment of seawater desalination plants, […]
Thirty years the town of Avalon on Catalina Island became the first city on the West Coast to have its own municipal desalination plant.
It was developing technology at the time, and the city hoped it would provide a stable source of drinking water on an island 23 miles off the coast of Southern California with few other options.
“I don’t know what we would have done without desalination,” said Avalon Mayor Anni Marshall, who has lived here for 38 years. “It’s been a huge help for us.”
Saudi Arabia has announced the launch of 26 water, environmental and agricultural projects in the Tabuk region of the kingdom at a total cost of more than $667 million.
These projects, which include four desalination projects worth SR1 billion, and 5 projects for water transmission systems valued at SR1 billion.
In addition the governor also opened seven projects for developing water resources at a cost of SR100 million.
