The MoU was signed by Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, managing director and CEO of DEWA, and Dr Saif Saleh Al Seiari, director general of ADWEA. (Image source: DEWA)

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) have signed an MoU agreement to build a strategic water connection network between Dubai and Abu Dhabi by establishing water reserves in the UAE

The PX Pressure Exchanger device captures hydraulic energy from the high pressure reject stream of seawater reverse-osmosis processes and transfers this energy to low pressure feed water with more than 98 per cent efficiency. (Image source: Energy Recovery)

Energy Recovery, provider of pressure energy technology for industrial fluid flows, has been awarded US$2.5mn to supply its PX Pressure Exchanger technology for desalination projects in Saudi Arabia

(Image source: Government of Dubai)

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has awarded a consultancy contract worth US$1.72mn to design and construct two water reservoirs in Al Nakhli with a storage capacity of 120mn gallons, and in Al Lusaily with a storage capacity of 60mn gallons, to increase the storage capacity of Dubai to 1010mn gallons

The move is seen as an important step for the country?s journey towards achieving sustainability in line with the UAE?s Vision 2021. (Image source: MOCCAE)

The UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Abu Dhabi?s future energy company Masdar and Bee?ah to develop a waste-to-energy conversion facility in the emirates of Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah