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22 Mar 2022 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia
WASH Services In Yemen To Receive Saudi Funding
Water and sanitation services in northwestern region of Yemen to benefit from Saudi relief funding of $5 Million USD. Resource rehabilitation and new toilets for displaced persons camps.
22 Feb 2022 RIYADH
New Cooperation On Water And Food
Cooperative and integrated water management systems, institutional framework, operations, initiatives and projects related to food and water security all on list of things to do.
16 Nov 2021 THUWAL, Saudi Arabia
Low-cost, Nature-based Solar Desal System
Compressed, pulverized coal and cotton are combined and heated to produce water in a new low-cost, readily-available, nature-based solution to meet water shortages.
22 Jul 2021 MECCA
Hajj Traditions In A Pandemic Year: Innovative Distribution Of Holy Zamzam Water
New type of memento distribution at this year's hajj: robot distribution of Zamzam water
10 Apr 2021 DAMMAN
Saudi Utility Completes Five Water, Environmental Projects Worth $28.8 Million USD
Projects benefit 12,000 people, include implementation of more than 130km of main and subsidiary networks, and household connections.
10 Feb 2021 WASHINGTON DC, United States
US Withdrawal Of Military Support To Saudis Offers Hope For Yemen
US President Joe Biden has announced that he is “ending all American support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arms sales”, in a move intended to bring to an end the six-year war that has “created a humanitarian and strategic catastrophe”. Fighting between a Saudi-led Arab coalition backed by the US and UK, and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels has killed more than 100,000 people since March 2015, and displaced 3...
25 Jan 2021 DUBAI
Signs Of Saudi Arabia's Water Sector Privatisation Plans
For its privatization plans, Saudi Arabia is not thinking – or taking - half-measures. If anyone needs confirmation, check out the kingdom’s utility sector… and specifically, the water side of it. “All desalination plants will become standalone production companies as part of our privatization strategy,” said Abdullah Bin Ibrahim Al-Abdlkareem, Governor of Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) and Chairman of newly formed Water Transmission and Technologies Co...
18 Jan 2021 OUAGADOUGOU
China, Saudi Finance Burkina Faso Drinking Water Projects
The implementation of several drinking water projects in Burkina Faso is set to be financed by China and Saudi Arabia following the signing of two financing agreements worth a total of over US$ 58.19m by representatives from the three nations. The Exim Bank of China will provide close to US$ 58m in the form of a concessional loan to strengthen the drinking water supply system of the cities of Tenkodogo, Garango, Bittou, and Bagré...
17 Dec 2020 Glasgow, Scotland
US Will Host A Climate Summit In First Quarter Of 2021
United States President-elect Joe Biden has announced that the US will host a climate summit of the world’s major economies before the end of March 2021. Biden has already committed the US re-joining the Paris Climate Agreement on the day of his inauguration in January.The announcement follows a virtual "Climate Ambition Summit" co-hosted by the UN, the United Kingdom, Britain, France, Italy, and Chile on 12-13 Decmber which was organised to mark the fifth anniversary of the Paris accord and was held in lieu of the originally-scheduled COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, which will now happen in November 2021...
11 Dec 2020 RIYADH
Saudi Arabia Announces Water, Environment Investment In Asir Region
Saudi Arabia's National Water Company (NWC) has announced plans to develop water and environmental projects worth more than SR800 million ($213 million) in the Asir region.These projects will help serve more than one million beneficiaries of the water and sanitation services in cities, governorates and centres of the region...
23 Nov 2020 BAGHDAD
Iran Accused Of Scuppering Saudi-Iraqi Agricultural Project
Saudi Arabia abandoned a major agricultural investment project being discussed with Iraq in its early stages due to a water deficit, according to the Iraqi government. Unofficial sources, however, said the project was actually scrapped because of heavy pressure from Iran’s agents and proxies, including politicians and leaders of armed Shia militias...
13 Nov 2020 RIYADH
Saudi Arabia: New State Water Management Company Established, Precursor To Privatization
Saudi Arabia has launched a new company for the management and maintenance of water transmission, distribution and storage systems that span over more than 8,000 km and transmit more than 7 million cu m per day of desalinated water across the country. The new entity, Water Transmission and Technologies Company (WTTCO), was enacted by the council of ministers and is one outcome of the privatization programme in the kingdom’s water sector...