Current desalination techniques are energy intensive, and this global challenge encourages innovators to find solutions through cleaner and cheaper energy solutions. (Image source: Melody Ayres-Griffiths/Flickr)
GE ecomagination and Aramco Entrepreneurship have launched global technology challenge worth US$200,000 to encourage new solutions to improve the energy efficiency of seawater desalination
The river Nile flowing through Cairo in Egypt, which is reportedly among the six most water-stressed nations in the world. (Image source: David Berkowitz/Flickr)
The European Union has announced it will make a contribution of US$95mn towards a water project titled Improved Water and Waste Water Services Programme, in Egypt
The Quriyat desalination project is expected to increase the overall capacity of desalinated water in Oman. (Image source: ro plant)
Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) has revealed the request for proposal (RfP) to the shortlisted bidders for the development of a new seawater desalination project in Quriyat, south of Muscat
Fady Juez, managing director of Metito and a director of the International Desalination Association. (Image source: Metito)
With the demand for fresh water supplies continuing to rise across the Middle East, leading water management and solutions provider Metito has found itself working on a number of key projects within the regions desalination and water management sectors
Carlos Cosin, IDA director and chairman of Abengoa Water. (Image source: Carlos Cosin)
Less than four per cent of the worlds water is reused. In the arid Middle East, however, the figure is understandably higher. Carlos Cosin, IDA director and chairman of Abengoa Water, a Spanish company heavily involved in a number of water projects across the Middle East, talks to Technical Review ME about the future of the regions water sector
