Integrating the decision support tools into a comprehensive suite represents a ?world?s first? in terms of realising the benefits of actively optimising water supply and reliability to Adelaide?s customers. (Image source: Bentley Systems)

Prolonged periods of drought in Adelaide and the surrounding area prompted the building of a high capacity desalination plant and a north-south interconnecting pipeline within South Australia and for the first time South Australia Water (SA Water) was able to distribute water almost anywhere in its network at any time

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

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 

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