Kuwait plans to increase its water production capacity by more than 100 per cent to above 900m gallons a day (g/d), the International Water Summit (IWS) in Abu Dhabi was told on 17 January. This will involve building nine large…
Category: Water
NWC of Saudi Arabia presses ahead with Riyadh strategic water storage
The National Water Company (NWC) said yesterday that it is completing the initial stages of the first and largest phase of its strategic storage project for Riyadh. It will provide 600,000 cubic meters (159 million gallons) of storage capacity at…
Kuwait targets residential water waste and building retrofits
Kuwait’s developing electricity and water efficiency programme is targeting householders caught wasting water and a pilot home retrofitting project will soon be launched, according to Suhaila Marafie, director of the studies and research department in Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity &…
Gulf donors finance huge Bahrain sewerage plans, MEED conference told
Aid from the governments of Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia will play an important role in helping Bahrain deliver radical improvements in the kingdom’s sewage collection and treatment system, MEED’s Bahrain Energy Forum was told this morning. The conference…