Once completed the new plant will produce more than 1mcm of drinking water a day. (Image source: Rain Rannu)
Production of purified water has begun in what will become the world?s biggest seawater desalination facility, based in Saudi Arabia, according to state-owned Saudi Press Agency
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
