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  • Bahrain
    World’s largest underwater theme park opens in Bahrain

    The world’s largest underwater theme park for diving enthusiasts has opened in Bahrain. Covering an area of 100,000 square meters, the Dive Bahrain park has a 70-meter-long decommissioned Boeing 747 as its centerpiece, the largest aircraft ever to be intentionally submerged.

  • Climate Change
    IPCC climate change report: 1 billion worldwide will face water, food shortages by 2050

    A key United Nations report Wednesday warns that more than a billion people around the world could face severe water shortages and food insecurity by 2050 due to the effects of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the report, compiled by more than 100 top climate researchers, is a call for world leaders to be more aggressive in slowing greenhouse gas emissions to help keep the global temperature rise under 2 degrees Celsius.

  • Climate Change
    From Yemen to South Sudan, climate and water stress seen worsening conflict

    Social and political tensions fueled by climate change have yet to translate into international military confrontations, but local conflicts are heating up due to pressures such as drought and water scarcity, officials and researchers said on Wednesday.

  • Water
    Saudi Arabia launches $826m water projects

    Projects include setting up a pipeline for carrying desalinated water from the desalination plant in Al-Shuaibah to Makkah and the holy sites at a total cost exceeding $233m (SAR875m), and the second phase of Al-Shuaibah Desalination Plant with a capacity of 250,000 cubic meters per day at a cost of over $313m (SAR1.175bn).

  • Water
    Oil built Saudi Arabia – will a lack of water destroy it?

    “In Saudi Arabia there are only two sources of water: the sea and deep wells,” says Ahmed Safar Al Asmari, who manages one of Berain’s two factories in Riyadh. “We’re in the central region, so there are only deep wells here.”

  • Water
    Rivers of Dust: Water and the Middle East

    According to satellites that monitor climate, the Tigris-Euphrates Basin, embracing Turkey, Syria, Iraq and western Iran, is losing water faster than any other area in the world, with the exception of Northern India.

  • Desalination
    Saudi invention holds immense promise for a water-scarce world

    Researchers at the university’s Water Desalination and Reuse Center in Jeddah say they have developed a technology that uses waste heat recovered from solar panels to power a desalination process that produces clean water from seawater.

  • Desalination
    As Water Scarcity Increases, Desalination Plants Are on the Rise

    After decades of slow progress, desalination is increasingly being used to provide drinking water around the globe. Costs for processing salt water for drinking water have dropped, but it remains an expensive option and one that creates environmental problems that must be addressed.

  • U.S.-Iran
    Pentagon issues map depicting US drone shot over international waters

    At the time of the intercept, “the RQ-4 was operating at high-altitude approximately 34 kilometers from the nearest point of land on the Iranian coast,” Guastella said in a statement Thursday.

  • Oil Markets
    Saudi urges world powers to secure waterways after twin attacks

    Saudi Arabia's cabinet urged world powers Tuesday for firm measures to secure shipping lanes across the region, state media reported, after last week's twin attacks on tankers that escalated regional tensions.