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  • Saudi authorities seize over 700,000 pills hidden inside watermelons

    Saudi Arabia security forces seized over 700,000 amphetamine tablets in the capital Riyadh, the General Directorate of Narcotics Control (GDNC) announced on Wednesday. The 765,000 tablets were hidden inside watermelons in a shipment that belonged to five people, three Syrian residents and two Saudi citizens, the official Saudi Press agency (SPA) quoted GDNC spokesman Major Mohammed al-Nujaidi as saying.

  • Pakistan flood victims hit by disease outbreak amid stagnant water

    Skin infections, diarrhoea and malaria are rampant in parts of Pakistan's flood-ravaged regions, killing 324 people, authorities said on Wednesday, adding that the situation may get out of control if required aid doesn't arrive. Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the floods are living in the open, and as floodwaters - spread over hundreds of kilometres - may take two to six months to recede, stagnant waters have led to serious health issues

  • Saudi NEOM’s water desalination plant to be ready by 2024: report

    In June 2022, the company had said that the reverse osmosis desalination plant will have a 500,000 cubic metres per day capacity and meet approximately 30 percent of NEOM’s forecasted total water demand. In addition to producing desalinated water, the project will use the waste brine streams  downstream to produce industrial salt, bromine, boron, potassium, gypsum, magnesium and rare metals, the company said.

  • How desalination is being is used to tackle water scarcity

    The Middle East and North Africa is home to just 1% of the world's freshwater resources. Countries in the region are withdrawing water from underground reservoirs faster than it can be replenished. This is mainly to irrigate farmland: agriculture accounts for nearly 80% of water usage in MENA, according to a report from the World Bank.

  • Long lines and lack of water mar Qatar World Cup stadium trial

    Friday's match, called the Lusail Super Cup, was the first time the new Lusail stadium has hosted such a crowd. At 80,000 seats, it is the largest of Qatar's eight World Cup stadiums and a gold-clad showpiece designed to host the final match on Dec. 18.

  • Saudi Arabia produces 20% of global desalinated water, official says

    Saudi Arabia produces around 20 percent of the world’s desalinated water, with 9 million cubic meters produced per day, the deputy minister of environment, water and agriculture said. While speaking at the Future of Desalination International Conference in Riyadh on Sept. 12, Mansour Al-Mushaiti added that Saudi Arabia has desalinated seawater since the 1950s and is “the leading desalinated water producer in the world.” He noted that the Kingdom now has reliable access to drinking water, of which 60 percent is desalinated.

  • Reusing Saudi Arabia’s Precious Water Resources

    KAUST Associate Professor Peiying Hong has developed a new innovative wastewater treatment method that uses less energy and renders water safe to use for agriculture. The technology is currently being piloted with industry partner MODON (Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones) in Jeddah.

  • South Pakistan braces for surge of flood water flowing from north

    Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in northern mountains have triggered floods that have killed at least 1,191 people, including 399 children. The United Nations has appealed for $160 million to help with what it has called an "unprecedented climate catastrophe"

  • Falling waters of Euphrates, Tigris rivers reveal submerged archaeological sites

    The drop of the water levels in recent years has uncovered many archaeological and ancient sites that were submerged beneath the two historic rivers in Syria, Iraq and Turkey.

  • Saudi Heritage Commission to retrieve underwater artifacts

    The designated sites will be photographed using high-quality 3D photogrammetry and video technology, making an accurate map of the wrecks and determining the locations of fixed reference points using the GPS. It will cover more than 25 designated survey sites along the path in Ras Sheikh Humaid, Dubai, Al-Wajh, and Umluj areas, which will also be monitored.