The National Water Company of Saudi Arabia invites pre-qualified local and international consortia to submit bids for operation and maintenance of water and wastewater treatment plants in the Eastern Region

The Mancomunidad de los Canales del Taibilla will contract the drafting of projects for the replacement of turbines with isobaric energy recuperators at the desalination plants of Alicante I and San Pedro del Pinatar

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority has signed its first 35-year IWP project for the Hassyan desalination plant with UAE-based Utico for US$410 million

The Government of the Canary Islands is planning the construction of a desalination plant in Fuerteventura that will be 100% photovoltaic powered with a budget of 7.5 million euros

Saline Water Conversion Corporation has set a new Guinness World Records title for lowest energy consumption for a water desalination plant with 2.27 kW/h per cubic meter

Repsol to invest €5.5 million in its Cartagena plant to increase water reuse with the construction of an ultrafiltration plant

The Consejo Insular de Aguas de Tenerife (CIATF) invests 420,000 euros in a portable desalination plant of 1,000 m3/day, to guarantee the supply in the industrial area of Valle de Güímar

Castilla-La Mancha will invest 57 million euros between its own funds and recovery funds to build 24 new wastewater treatment plants until 2023

The Catalan Water Agency has put out to tender the contract for the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant in Paz, in the Alt Empordà region (Girona)

Alicante increased the use of reclaimed water by 5.8% in the last year

The Catalan Water Agency approves the agreement to increase the production of 13 purified water reclamation stations on the Costa Brava

The Vice-President of the Government and Minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, propose to define an ecological flow and investing more in desalination

The first investments of the European Recovery Funds will go to wastewater treatment, waste and circular economy

Inter-American Development Bank report highlights the Canary Islands’ ingenuity and innovative capacity to overcome the challenge of water scarcity

Study on the mix of desalination plant and well water for banana production in the Gulf Valley (El Hierro)

A pilot project in the Canary Islands uses desalination brine as fertilizer for a hydroponic production system

The European Commission is launching a new platform on which it will publish research funded by Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020

A study by Esamur and the CTNC certifies the excellent quality of reclaimed water and its sanitary guarantee for agricultural use

Petrojet has awarded Nijhuis Saur Industries the design and procurement of the WWTPI for the new ANOPC hydrocracking complex (Egypt)

A study led by researchers from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) shows that the rate at which the temperature and salinity of Western Mediterranean waters are increasing has accelerated

Increased vigilance on Asian algae spreading along the Mediterranean coast

Groundwater contributes 60% more nutrients to the oceans than water from rivers

Un equipo de investigación de la URJC propone alternativas para la reutilización de las aguas residuales de refinería

The Chilean government wants to give greater prominence to water: it plans to transform the Ministry of Public Works into the Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources, an entity that will oversee and coordinate Chile’s 43 institutions that deal with water

Japan approves discharge of Fukushima water into the Pacific Ocean

Emirates Water and Electricity Company invites bids for Mirfa 2 desalination plant project in Abu Dhabi

Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) is in the process of issuing a request for proposals to develop the second phase of a desalination plant EPC contract project

Oman Power & Water Procurement (OPWP) seeks technical engineering consultants for project management and technical advice for two desalination projects: Ghubrah 3 and Barka 5

The Hydrographic Confederation of the Guadalquivir River bids for 61.9 million euros for the works to adapt the treatment plants in the area of Doñana (Seville)

IDA has finally decided to postpone its next World Congress in Sydney (Australia) until spring 2022

The National Cryptologic Center provides companies in the water sector with a free early warning service for cyber threats in industrial environments

Kenya and Tanzania opt for water desalination to increase their drinking water coverage rate

The first hydrogen plant with reclaimed water will be implemented at the Arroyo Culebro wastewater treatment plant in Pinto (Madrid) and will cost 24.5 million euros

The Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has presented the Royal Decree on pollution caused by nitrates, which aims to reduce pollution caused by excess nutrients by 50%

European irrigators see the Portuguese Presidency of the European Council as an opportunity to promote and encourage the reuse of water for agricultural irrigation

The 29 treatment plants in the Vega Baja (Alicante) will reuse all water through tertiary treatment and desalination

31 million euro contract awarded for water treatment and reuse works in Granadilla (Tenerife)

African Development Bank to provide $109 million loan to Egypt to upgrade Louxor’s wastewater treatment plant to allow for reuse

53 million investment to increase the production of reclaimed water from the treatment plants of Gavà and El Prat de Llobregat

The Catalan Water Agency has approved the agreement to reactivate 13 water reuse stations in various parts of the Costa Brava (Girona)

Panama City approves plan to invest $305 million in upgrades to the city’s drinking water, wastewater and stormwater management infrastructure

Abengoa completes construction of the 113,500 m3/day desalination plant in Salalah (Oman)

Morocco plans to build a large desalination plant in Casablanca by 2027. The project is in the detailed studies phase and will be built in partnership between the public and private sectors

EU Commission adopts common approach to monitoring COVIDー19 through wastewater monitoring

A study in wastewater from the University of Burgos detects SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil in November 2019

The CEOE has published a document on the use of reclaimed water in industry as a “very important asset to be taken into account”

Wastewater treatment systems that combine conventional technologies with a membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) achieve better results and lower energy costs

New ionic liquid discovered ten times more efficient for use in emerging directional solvent extraction desalination technology using low-temperature thermal energy

Traces of antidepressants reaching the ocean are changing fish behavior

India’s Va Tech Wabag Group will build three steam compression seawater desalination plants in Libya

The final report of the results of the Preliminary Market Consultation (PMC) aimed at startups, entrepreneurs and researchers for brine valorisation projects and new desalination processes is available

Authorization of the financing of a pumping station for reclaimed water from the WWTP 1 of Palma to the Can Guidet reservoir for the irrigation reservoir of Pla de Sant Jordit

La Palma’s countryside bets on the use of reclaimed water