UAE-based private utility provider Utico and Chinese firm Shandong Tianyi Chemical Corporation will collaborate to extract industrial chemicals from brine, a first of its kind in the GCC in recycling waste seawater from desalination plants
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WETEX to highlight specialised companies in all sectors of the water industry

DEWA is organising WETEX and DSS 2023 from 15-17 November 2023, at the Dubai World Trade Centre. (Image source: WETEX)
The Water, Energy, Technology and Environment Exhibition (WETEX) and Dubai Solar Show (DSS) will attract hundreds of local and international companies that specialise in all sectors of the water industry. This includes water production, purification, treatment, desalination, sustainability, infrastructure, flow management, wastewater treatment, waste disposal, water extraction from air and others
ACWA Power to handle Dubai's Hassyan seawater project

Alexander Sarac, Infrastructure Projects and Energy partner for Addleshaw Goddard Middle East. (Image source: Addleshaw Goddard)
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA)reached commercial close on the 180MIGD Hassyan Seawater Reverse Osmosis Project with its successful bidder, Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power Company
Improving water infrastructure in the Middle East

Slavco Velickov, global asset performance director at Bentley Systems. (Image source: Bentley Systems)
Slavco Velickov, global asset performance director at Bentley Systems, speaks to Technical Review Middle East about smart water grids in the Middle East
Metito Consortium secures US$2.2bn Abu Dhabi water project

Orascom-Metito Consortium secures US$2.2bn Abu Dhabi water project financing in record time. (Image source: Adobe Stock)
A consortium of Orascom Construction and Metito, together with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company PJSC (ADNOC) and Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA), has achieved the successful financial close in record time for a large-scale seawater treatment and water transportation project in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE