ACWA Power and Natixis have announced that the Taweelah IWP has obtained the first-ever “sustainable loan” qualification for a water desalination project globally

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has received with world’s lowest water levelised tariff of 0.306 US$ per cu/m for its 120 million gallons per day (MIGD) Hassyan Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Plant

The GCC region remains one of the highest consumers of water in the world as demand surges simultaneous with its booming population and steady socio-economic growth, according to a report entitled ‘Water Management and Sustainability in the Gulf Cooperation Council: Addressing Scarcity and Consumption in the Region’ released by Orient Planet Research (OPR), an Orient Planet Group venture

Seawater desalination capacity of GCC countries is expected to grow by at least 37 per cent in the next five years with investments of up to as much as US$100bn by 2020, according to a report released ahead of the second edition of Mena Desalination Projects Conference in Abu Dhabi

NEOM has signed an agreement with UK-based Solar Water Plc to build the first-ever solar dome desalination plants in NEOM, located in northwest Saudi Arabia