Saudi-listed Acwa has signed an MoU with Veolia in Paris to optimise seawater desalination, combining technical expertise to improve SWRO plant design, operations and equipment selection while reducing energy consumption.
VA Tech Wabag, a leading pure-play multinational water technology group, has secured the design, build, operate (DBO) contract for the Doha SWRO Desalination Plant with Recarbonation System – Stage II in Kuwait.
More than 2,200 water-sector specialists from 100 countries are set to converge in Riyadh for the 21st edition of the IDRA World Congress on Desalination and Water Reuse, where they will discuss solutions and challenges related to global water security at the event's first gathering in Saudi Arabia.
A new clean-water infrastructure venture designed to deliver rapidly deployable water-treatment and desalination systems has been launched by the founder of Abu Dhabi-based Kinetic7 Technologies.
Acciona said it is deploying a digital platform across its desalination plants, both in the Middle East as well as globally, to improve operational efficiency and real-time decision-making, using Schneider Electric's plant management system (PMS) based on Aveva PI System technology.
A power and water desalination station in Kuwait was damaged in an Iranian attack on Saturday, triggering a fire and forcing the temporary shutdown of many units, reported state media. Several firefighters and an worker were injured while battling fires at two sites targeted in the attacks.
A research team at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) has developed an innovative system to produce green hydrogen directly from seawater without desalination, marking a step forward in clean energy innovation and sustainable fuel production technologies.
Acciona has successfully tested a next-generation reverse osmosis configuration designed to improve the energy efficiency and sustainability of seawater desalination, as part of the European innovation project LIFE INDESAL.
A consortium of India-based VA Tech Wabag, a global leader in water and wastewater treatment solutions, and Heavy Engineering Industries and Shipbuilding Company (Heisco) has been awarded a KD114.2 million ($370 million) contract for a major seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant in Kuwait.
Saudi Water Authority (SWA) has announced that one of its major projects - Shuaiba Desalination Plant Project - Phase 5 in Makkah has successfully boosted its daily output from 600,000 cu m/day to 665,000 cu m/day of desalinated water without incurring additional costs.
