Noticias sobre Oman
3rd cycle Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Water Award attracts participants from across the world
Several first-time participants including Algeria & Kenya, in the latest cycle.
U.S. EPA Administrator Regan announces $300 million in water infrastructure investments
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New WWF analysis reveals the possibility of freeing at least 7800 km of rivers in EU from barriers
WWF’s new Potential of Barrier Removal to Reconnect Europe’s Rivers report analyses a sample of 30,000 barriers on large and medium-sized rivers in Europe, and assesses their reconnection potential for the whole continent, the EU27, and by country.
Utico looks at sustainable investments in Oman’s water sector
Utico, the Middle East’s leading full service utility based in the UAE, has announced it is considering sustainable investments in Oman, informs Muscat Daily.
Aqualia will manage the water supply to one of the main industrial complexes in Saudi Arabia
The company, through its local subsidiary HAAISCO, has just been selected for the operation and maintenance of the desalination plant and the drinking water distribution system in the industrial area of Jizan, in southwest Saudi Arabia.
Abengoa Agua completes the construction of the Salalah desalination plant in Oman
This reverse osmosis plant has a production capacity of 113,500 m3/d. With the completion of this project, the company is consolidated as a world leader in desalination with an installed capacity of 1.8 million m3/d.
DOE awards $27.5 million to 16 teams working to decarbonize U.S. water infrastructure
Projects in 13 states boast potential to reduce carbon emissions and costs in water systems, improve water quality.
ABB technology to power world’s largest seawater desalination project
Technology from ABB is being used to build the world’s largest desalination plant in Taweelah, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, while separately, ABB has won a contract to modernize the City of Nashville’s water infrastructure.
Miguel Ángel López Borrego newly appointed to the Supervisory Board of NORMA Group
Miguel Ángel López Borrego has been appointed a new member of the Supervisory Board of NORMA Group SE with effect from March 16, 2021, after being proposed by the Supervisory Board and the Management Board.
European summer droughts since 2015 unprecedented in past two millennia
Recent summer droughts in Europe are far more severe than anything in the past 2,100 years, according to a new study.
Inspirational women for the water sector
Today on International Women’s Day, it is not only necessary to draw attention to all women working in the water sector now, but also to remember and cheer all those who made a difference or who are still making a mark in the water and scientific stratum.
3M to invest $1 billion to achieve carbon neutrality, reduce water use and improve water quality
3M expects to invest approximately $1 billion over the next 20 years to accelerate new environmental goals: achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, reduce water use by 25% at its facilities, and return higher quality water to the environment after use in manufacturing operations.
KBG Technologies launches full-service water-treatment division
Woman-owned chemical company looks to future with new services.
SUEZ wins contract for natural and environmentally friendly water treatment system in Oman
SUEZ has been awarded by Petroleum Development Oman, the leading oil & gas exploration and production company in the Sultanate, a Design Build Own Operate and Maintain (DBOOM) contract for the treatment of 40,000 m3 each day of produced water coming from oil fields located in Rima, about 700 kms South of Muscat, capital of Oman.
World’s largest reed bed treatment plant in operation for 10 years
In the middle of a desert landscape in Oman, BAUER Nimr LLC, a local subsidiary of BAUER Resources GmbH, has now been operating the world’s largest commercial reed bed treatment plant for ten years.
Doosan Heavy wins $699 million desalination plant deal in Saudi Arabia
Yanbu Phase 4 plant to be constructed in Ar Rayyis in the western region of Saudi Arabia ...
Utico announces AED 3 billion primary listing in 2021
Region’s largest Full service utilities leader will float its shares in Dubai.
Climate change in antiquity: mass emigration due to water scarcity
The absence of monsoon rains at the source of the Nile was the cause of migrations and the demise of entire settlements in the late Roman province of Egypt.
Groundwater drives rapid erosion of the Canterbury coastline, New Zealand
Groundwater flow and seepage can form large gullies along coastal cliffs in the matter of days, it has been discovered, as per a recently-published paper.
EU Cohesion policy: €222 million for better drinking water in Romania
The European Commission has approved a major investment of over €222 million from the Cohesion Fund to upgrade and install drinking water and wastewater infrastructures in the Ilfov County in Romania.