The WaterWorld Middle East conference and exhibition will help governments in the Gulf meet the infrastructure demands of their growing populations, announced Dr Hisham Khatib, honorary vice-chairman of the World Energy Council
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Saudi Arabia?s desalination facility gets its second unit

When completed, the Yanbu facility can produce 550,000 cu/m of desalinated water daily. (Image source: RO Plant/Flickr)
Saudi Arabia?s Yanbu power generation and desalination facility received second of the six desalination units at King Fahd International Port in Riyadh
Saint-Gobain awarded US$268 million Qatari water contracts

The major project intends to create a seven-day emergency supply of drinking water for Qatar. (Image source: Ray Bodden)
French company Saint-Gobain PAM has signed two contracts worth US$268mn with Al Jaber Engineering to work on a major reservoirs project run by Qatar General Electricity and Water Cooperation (Kahramaa)
Jordan to spend US$1.4 million on sewage project

The US$1.4mn project would connect homes to the main sewage network in the Madaba Governorate. (Image source: Jtharp/Wikimedia Commons)
Jordan has announced that it will spend US$1.4mn to connect residential houses to Madaba Governorate?s main sewage network by Q1 2015
DEWA awards US$17.7 million water reliability contract
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has awarded a contract worth US$17.7mn for a project aimed at increasing the reliability of the water networks across Dubai