Water-a-environment - Water a environment

GWI analyses regulatory trends in the water industry

The continued degradation of environmental resources due to industrial activity have highlighted the damage that can be done through poor regulation of water quality. (Image source: toa555/Adobe Stock)

A new GWI Market Insight report shows that in Abu Dhabi, amid concerns of nutrient-loading caused by ocean discharge of treated wastewater, the government has set a target of 100 per cent reuse by the end of 2018

New Al Hamra Village household recycling scheme to save 3,500 tonnes of waste from landfill every year

The integrated community of 4,000 homes has already implemented the new initiative. (Image source: Al Hamra)

Ras Al Khaimah?s (RAK) real estate developer, Al Hamra, will implement the RAK Recycles initiative across the entire community, helping the emirate reach its target to divert 75 per cent of all waste from landfill by 2021

Saudi Arabia to build nine desalination plants

The plants are part of the Saudi Vision 2030, to increase the percentage of desalinated water production. (Image source: Ryan Lackey/Flickr)

Saudi Arabia plans to build nine desalination plants for more than US$530mn on the Red Sea coast, according to minister of environment, water and agriculture Abdulrahman Al-Fadhli

Financing secured for Sharjah Multi-Fuel Waste-to-Energy Facility

(Fourth from left) Masdar CEO Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi at the signing ceremony in Abu Dhabi last week. (Image source: Bee?ah)

Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, Masdar, and Bee?ah, the UAE?s leading environmental management company, have secured financing commitments for the Sharjah Multi-Fuel Waste-to-Energy Facility, a joint venture between the two companies launched in May 2017

FEWA to develop seven water projects in Ajman

Ajman is the smallest of the UAE, covering only 260 sq km. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

The Federal Electricity and Water Authority (FEWA) is currently working on seven water development projects in different areas in the emirate of Ajman, the UAE, at a total cost of US$85.7mn