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How the UAE Is Redefining Global Water Trade By Turning Scarcity Into Strategy
August 7th, 2025
Via Khaleej Times, an article on how – with more than 40% of its potable water derived from desalination – the UAE is one of the world’s most advanced users of non-traditional water sources: Faced with extreme scarcity, the UAE is turning constraint into opportunity, using its logistics muscle, regulatory agility and investment firepower to […]
Read more »The Gulf’s Trillion-Dollar AI Dream Has A Water Problem
August 6th, 2025
Via Rest of World, a look at how tech giants are pouring oil riches into Middle East data centers as water scarcity threatens digital ambitions: The UAE and Saudi Arabia are rapidly expanding their AI infrastructure, attracting tech giants like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. Data centers powering AI in the Gulf are projected to consume […]
Read more »UAE To Supply Desalinated Water To Gaza Through New Pipeline
July 16th, 2025
Via The National, a report on a UAE plan to supply desalinated water to Gaza through new pipeline: The UAE has announced the launch of a new project to supply desalinated water to the southern Gaza Strip through a new pipeline. Under the project, water will be delivered from the Egyptian border, state news agency Wam reported. The […]
Read more »In MENA, Making Every Drop of Water Count
January 24th, 2025
Via The World Bank, an article on efforts to maximize and conserve water: In the Middle East and North Africa region, water is truly life. For centuries, the region was renowned for its innovation in conserving water and delivering it to people. Think of the waterwheels of Hama in Syria, early irrigation dams in Yemen, and […]
Read more »Climate Change Is Making the Middle East Uninhabitable
August 20th, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, a report on the impact of climate change in the Middle East: Over the last 10 months, the world’s attention has been focused on Israel and the Gaza Strip. The war that began on Oct. 7, 2023, with Hamas’s attack on Israel has been cataclysmic. But the conflict has overshadowed another crisis […]
Read more »From Scarcity to Sustainability: The GCC’s Journey Towards Water Security
April 8th, 2024
Via the World Bank, commentary on the GCC’s journey towards water security: World Water Day casts a spotlight on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries’ journey towards sustainable water security — a remarkable feat given their extreme water scarcity. The GCC countries face a stark reality: the absence of surface water and their unsustainable use of groundwater […]
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