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  • The Saudi Cultural Mission’s New Headquarters
     

    The new SACM headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia provides a modern hub for Saudi Students in the United States, and stands as a symbol of the strong cultural relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Until recently, the future of the iconic Watergate hotel and office complex in Washington DC, which was the site of […]

     
  • Muslims across the world prepare to observe Ramadan
     

    Muslims around the world begin fasting on Friday in observation of Ramadan, the holiest month in Islam when the faithful abstain from eating food or drinking water from sunrise to sunset…. Every year, identifying the start of Ramadan is like a waiting game; Islamic scholars must see the new crescent moon in the night skies […]

     
  • Saudi Aramco to invest in new energy ventures
     

    Saudi Aramco has launched an investment arm to buy into companies that have developed technologies of strategic importance to Saudi Arabia and speed their deployment in the kingdom, the state-run energy group said. Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures LLC (SAEV) plans to invest in start-up and high-growth ventures offering new technologies to the upstream and downstream […]

     
  • The Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh is Arguably the World’s Nicest Hotel
     

    If you look at pictures of the new Ritz Carlton, it might not look like it belongs in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Not because the arguably world’s nicest hotel isn’t worthy for the Kingdom, but because the style of the hotel makes it look like a king’s palace in old Europe, with a […]

     
  • Not a Drop to Drink: The Global Water Crisis
     

    In the next twenty years, global demand for fresh water will vastly outstrip reliable supply in many parts of the world. Thanks to population growth and agricultural intensification, humanity is drawing more heavily than ever on shared river basins and underground aquifers. Meanwhile, global warming is projected to exacerbate shortages in already water-stressed regions, even […]

     
  • Al-Qaida’s wretched utopia and the battle for hearts and minds
     

    Driving east out of Aden, we were just a few hundred metres past the last army checkpoint when we saw the black al-Qaida flag. It flew from the top of a concrete building that had been part-demolished by shelling. From here into the interior, all signs of control by the government of Yemen disappeared. This […]

     
  • Saudis Increasing Riyadh Water Supply
     

    With the bulk of Saudi Arabia’s drinking water coming from desalination plants, the country’s sky-rocketing population growth puts enormous demand on water supply. Arab News reports that a new desalination plant in the Eastern Province is gearing up to go online. When it is producing, it will nearly double the amount of water flowing into […]

     
  • Water Brings Green to Saudi Arabia
     

    Over the last two-and-a-half decades, a series of NASA’s Landsat satellites have captured these pictures of the growing agriculture industry in the northern reaches of the Syrian Desert in Saudi Arabia, not far from Jordan. Farmers use a technique called center-pivot irrigation to bring up water from below the desert floor to grow wheat and […]

     
  • Opportunities in Water Production
     

    Saudi Arabia will increase by almost double its desalinated water production over the next three years according to the governor of the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) who said the daily water production will rise from the current 3.3 million cubic meters to about 6 million. SWCC’s HR General Manager, Abdul Latif Al-Harkan, was a […]

     

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  • Water crisis could cost the Middle East 6% of GDP by 2025

    While desalination has been the process of choice for Saudi Arabia, Israel and UAE have gone a different route – treating and reusing wastewater. In Israel, a staggering 85% of the treated sewage is reused, putting it second in the world behind only Singapore – where the proportion is 100%. The UAE is third globally, with just over half of all wastewater being reused.

  • PwC helps Saudi government with water privatisation initiative

    The Water Transmission and Technologies Company (WTTCO) is conceptualised to be among the largest water transmission companies in the world, currently spanning 8,000 kms in pipeline infrastructure. Plans are to expand this network to reach 11,000 kms and a transmission capacity of 8 million cubic metres of water.

  • Saudi Arabia Sets Up Water Transmission and Technologies Company

    Saudi Arabia has launched a new company, Water Transmission and Technologies Company (WTTCO), which is one outcome of the Privatization Program in the Kingdom’s water sector. WTTCO’s launch marks a major step by The Supervisory Committee for the Privatization of the Environment, Water, and Agriculture Sector towards restructuring the Kingdom's water sector.

  • Saudi underwater heritage facility in the works

    Saudi Arabia is planning to establish a centre to protect underwater cultural heritage in the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf. The initiative was announced by Saudi Culture Minister Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan during an online meeting of the Group of 20 that the kingdom is currently presiding over. The facility is part of the kingdom’s large-range efforts to preserve its natural heritage, the official added.

  • The Department of Energy and the Saudi Arabian Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) Sign a Memorandum of Understanding for Collaboration in the Field of Seawater Desalination

    Today, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Daniel R Simmons virtually joined His Excellency Eng. Abdullah Bin Ibrahim Al-Abdulkareem in signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), a Saudi Government Corporation, to promote cooperation between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia across the field of seawater desalination.

  • Inside the world’s biggest water desalination plants

    Ahmed al-Amoudi, head of a government-run desalination research institute, sees a future where industrially useful minerals such as sodium chloride salt, magnesium and calcium are extracted from the seawater alongside clean water, and no highly-salty wastewater - known as brine - flows back into the sea. “We can benefit from the sea and its treasures by the extraction of minerals,” Amoudi said. Amoudi works for the government’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), which says it makes 69% of Saudi’s desalinated water. Its researchers have filed several patents on technologies to extract minerals and other products, he said.

  • Saudi duo to launch water infrastructure fund

    Once it receives regulatory approval, the Water Infrastructure Investment Fund will aim to allow local and international private investors to put funds into the growing number of privately financed water treatment plants, sewage treatment plants and water transmission projects being rolled out in Saudi Arabia.

  • Saudi Prince inaugurates Loopagon, a ladies-only water park in Dhahran

    The water park, which is located on an area covering 15,000m2, can accommodate approximately 2,000 visitors per day

  • In Iraq, Water Crisis Deepens, Threatening the Country’s Future

    The many ongoing challenges in Iraq—from political upheaval and COVID-19 to plummeting oil prices and the resurgence of the Islamic State—often overshadow the precarious state of the country’s water resources, even though water shortages are exacerbating many of those very issues.

  • Water in the Middle East: A Primer

    As the effects of climate change intensify around us, the politics of water in the Middle East remains one of the most misunderstood topics.  This new primer corrects common misconceptions about water scarcity and global warming in the region, all in an easy-to-digest format that is ideal for students.