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DAILY NEWS 20th January 2015
Innovative water technologies on show as IWS 2015 opens HE Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and CEO of Masdar, rejected claims that the sudden drop in oil prices would affect the development of renewable energies, during the opening ceremony of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) 2015 yesterday. As part of ADSW, the International Water Summit (IWS) also got underway at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Centre (ADNEC) yesterday with a ceremony that highlighted the progress that the clean energies landscape has made in recent years. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Masdar's CEO drew attention to the recent drop in global oil prices. "This has prompted some to believe that low oil prices will result in a drop in renewable energy, but today our interconnected energy landscape has evolved beyond the point where the price of oil determines the fate of clean energy," he said. "Renewable energy has graduated from an expensive alternative to a competitive technology of choice." Reportedly, the last 12 months have seen a rise of 16 per cent in clean energy investments, reaching US$310bn. While installations of solar and wind resources have increased by 26 per cent to 100,000MW.
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HE Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and CEO of Masdar, speaking at the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week opening ceremony
The World Future Energy Summit (WFES), IWS and EcoWaste are co-located events all taking place during ADSW, which is expected to attract more than 32,000 visitors from approximately 170 countries this year. The three exhibitions are showcasing the latest in technological innovations to provide commercial solutions to the interconnected challenge of clean energy generation, water security and waste management. Among the technologies and innovations on display at IWS 2015 is a vending machine capable of producing 1,800 litres per day of pure water from air; a fully-automated technology that reuses resources in the degradation process to treat contaminated soils through calculating the injections necessary to perform an optimal degradation of organic pollution in soil or groundwater; as well as a water-retention product which is said to reduce water irrigation by 40 per cent. This year's opening ceremony also saw Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi deliver a keynote speech, in which he discussed plans to expand Egypt's reliance on renewable energies to 20 per cent by the year 2020. As part of his historic visit to the UAE, el-Sisi also shone a light on the ties between Egypt and the UAE, and stressed the importance of tackling the international misconceptions of the Middle East. www.internationalwatersummit.com 20th January 2015
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NEWS: Ecoplage presents its beach drainage technology at IWS FEATURE: UN-Water adds new life to global water plans with its 'Post2015' initiative
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Q&A: Dr. Abdullah AlAlshaikh, president of the International Desalination Association, discusses innovation in the desalination industry and regional challenges to the waterenergy nexus
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NEWS: FCC Aqualia takes on US$355mn sewerage system project in Qatar
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NEWS: A UAE rain enhancement programme set to launch today
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Ecoplage presents beach drainage technology at IWS Stand no: 4413 - France Pavilion FRENCH COMPANY Ecoplage is showcasing its innovative beach drainage and sand nourishment technology, which fights against beachside erosion, at this year's International Water Summit (IWS). With a project portfolio that includes Dubai's Jumeriah beach, the company's technology is said to control erosion and re-establish the already eroded area, meaning that the beach and coastline is maintained in future. The technology works by way of inserting a drainage system under the beach, which runs parallel to the coastline and links to a pumping station. Having exhibited at IWS in 2014, the company is back and looking to recreate the same success this year. Jean-Yves Audrain, director general of Ecoplage, said, "[Last year] we made a lot of contacts, especially with hotels and developers and some governmental institutions. "We hope we will find some more projects, because I believe that in this region, and more generally in the GCC, we have two things, first beaches, which are very applicable for our technology, and second, a high interest in protecting these beaches." The value of the growing tourism industry throughout the UAE, as well as across other parts of the Gulf, means that maintaining the region's beaches is of economical interest. In October 2011, Ecoplage began work on the strip of beach close to the
Ecoplage director general Jean-Yves Audrain Burj Al Arab, which had suffered from significant erosion. Prior to implementing the Ecoplage system, the beach reportedly lost approximately 30,000 cu/m in sand displacement per year. According to the company, three years after implementation erosion has been reduced by 100 per cent, with no need for further external sand nourishment.
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FEATURE
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IWS DAY 2 – PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE 09:25 – 09:30
IWS Chairperson’s Opening Introduction
09:30 – 09:35
Official Opening Ceremony
Water Conservation and Future Water Sustainability 09:35 – 09:50
Keynote Presentation: Ensuring a Sustainable Water Future for Arid Regions
09:50 – 10:15
Keynote Presentation: Analysing the Challenges and Opportunities of the Water-Energy Nexus
10:15 – 11:05
Panel Discussion: Taking a Unified Strategic Approach to Address the Challenges of the Water-Energy Nexus
11:05 – 11:30
Networking Coffee Break
GCC Strategic Direction 11:30 – 12:15
Panel Discussion: Working Towards Middle East Water Cooperation to Ensure a Sustainable Water Future for Arid Regions
12:15 – 12:40
One-to-One Interview Session: Forecasting Water and Energy Consumption 2020-2025
12:40 – 13:10
Panel Discussion: Understanding the Economics of Water
13:10 – 13:25
Keynote Presentation: Launch of Meteorology Initiatives to Support Improvements in Climate Change and Weather
13:25 – 13:45
Panel Discussion: Rain Enhancement as a Strategic Approach in Supporting Water Security
13:45 – 15:00
Lunch / Guided Tour of the Exhibition and Innovate@IWS Competition
Official Meteorology Programme Launch Event
15:00 – 17:25
17:30 – 17:35
STREAM A Mega Project Investment
STREAM B Energy Efficient and Clean Technology Desalination
15:00 - 15:30 Presentation: STEP - Sewerage Tunnel Enhancement Project
15:00 - 15:15 Case Study Desalination: Next Generation Renewable Energy Powered Desalination Pilot Project
15:30 - 16:00 Case Study Water: Nominated Project - Abu Dhabi Infrastructure Investment
15:15 - 15:30 Keynote Presentation: Opportunity to Enhance Energy Efficiency in Saudi Desalination Sector
16:00 - 16:30 Strategic Infrastructure Planning for Distribution of TSE Water to Maximise Use of New Water Resources
15:30 - 16:30 IDA organised Panel Discussion: Desalination Energy and Environment Nexus
16:30 - 17:00 Case Study Presentation: Redistribution and Re-Use of TSE Water for Use in Irrigation, Farming and Forestry
16:30 - 17:30 IDA organised Panel: Sustainable Desalination and Advanced Water Reuse. Development and Trends Leading to Energy and Cost Reduction
IWS Chairperson’s Closing Comments
INNOVATE@IWS – Day 2 14:30 – 15:00
Competition Round 2 – Industrial Water: Finalist candidates will present their innovations to the panel in a “Dragon’s Den” competition to see which innovation is the most promising at IWS 2015. Participating Innovators: BGH, OxyMem, WiseWater Pte. Ltd
Panel of Judges
Mr. Miguel Sanz, Director of Development and Innovation, Degrémont SA Dr. Corrado Sommariva, Managing Director, ILF Middle East, IDA Immediate Past President and Director
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UN launches follow-up initiative for future global water plans UN-Water’s plans for a ‘Post-2015 Global Goal for Water’ are set to promote ongoing discussions beyond the end of the ‘Water for Life’ campaign. HE UNITED Nation’s ‘Water for Life’ decade, launched in March 2005, comes to an end this year and already extensive plans have been made for follow-on activities. The whole series of events started with the Millennium Summit back in 2000, which issued a series of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and included the goal of ensuring everyone has access to both clean drinking water and adequate sanitation. This goal, ‘Target 10’, was enthusiastically taken up by UN-Water, the organisation’s inter-agency co-ordinating body. UN-Water has now produced a ‘Post-2015 Global Goal for Water’, also known as ‘Securing Sustainable Water for All’. This is intended as a contribution to the ongoing development debate on how water issues should be incorporated. The framework contains the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development in the 21st century. The plans are to protect global water resources while meeting both drinking and sanitation needs, as well as other major uses such as agriculture. The protection of communities from water-related disasters is also included. According to the UN, “The proposal is a key building block for sustainable development, underpinning all other efforts to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.” All costs, benefits and implementation measures are to be illustrated to stakeholders. Benefits, for example, will extend beyond the water domain to include health and education issues, to name a few. Governance issues will be covered and the necessary tools developed. The specific targets being set this year, with percentages to be inserted later, are: ● Achieving universal access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene ● Improving the sustainable use and development of water resources in all countries ● Strengthening equitable, participatory and accountable water governance in all countries
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The UN’s new initiative intends to protect global water resources while meeting both drinking and sanitation needs (Photo: Sue Thompson) Reducing untreated wastewater along with nutrient pollution ● Reducing mortality and economic losses from natural and human-induced water-related disasters ●
All of these targets will be measurable at a national level. The document’s Executive Summary states, “These proposed targets […] build on existing commitments and experiences to address challenges that globally are considered most critical to progress.” The new global goal for water builds on and extends the expiring decade’s commitments. The targets have important explicit and implicit interlinkages, making them mutually supportive. Thus, access to safe supplies and ensuring this is fairly shared needs good governance, balancing competing demands and protecting natural supply systems. Other post-2015 goals can be pursued at the same time. “It should be feasible to demonstrate strong links between water and other goals and their re-
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lated targets. Integrating the different development goals into a coherent structure offers the best hope of delivering maximum sustainable benefits for the greatest number of people,” according to the document. All of these new-era objectives require the building of a global consensus on water, as few dispute that the current pattern of use is clearly unsustainable. At Rio in 2012, governments acknowledged that water is at the core of sustainable development issues, being closely linked to a number of major international challenges; all are reliant on healthy freshwater systems. So, UN-Water’s proposed global goals this time address the priorities agreed at the huge Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference, drawing on the lessons learned with the MDGs and on the outputs of various stakeholder consultations. The programme also reflects the reports of the Eminent Persons Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda and a selection of other high-level institutions. www.internationalwatersummit.com
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Dr. Abdullah Al-Alshaikh President
International Desalination Association (IDA) What are the major challenges of the water-energy nexus in the region, and what steps are governments taking to address them?
A: In many ways, utilising sustainable resources is the answer to what is seen as the biggest challenge that the water-energy nexus faces: costs and a reliance on subsidised energy supply. Cost volatility is what drives the market and energy consumers, such as the desalination industry, crazy. Renewable energies offer consumers the opportunity to end the dependence on subsidized energy and present a constant price index for the planning of water infrastructure. Further challenges to the water-energy nexus include that of collaboration, strategic planning and strategy execution, i.e. leadership to tackle water shortages and increased demand at regional levels.
Which technological or infrastructure innovations in the desalination sector have you been most excited about recently?
A: What is extremely exciting about innovation in the desalination sector currently is that it is not only coming from one direction, but rather there is a cumulative number of big advancements coming together, which leads me to believe we are on the verge of a new era in the industry. We are on the verge of innovation and advancement in the design of membrane filtration units and the use of nanotechnology in reverse osmosis (RO) that will cause a dramatic drop in
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operating costs and energy consumption beyond what has already been achieved in this area. Other advancements include the ability to create huge increases in the rate of water recovery and the move towards zero desalination discharge; automation, smart systems and supply-chain in operations and transmission; and materials design in the manufacturing of parts and components. Advancements in all these areas will have a cumulative effect. There are big steps being taken to embrace renewable energy to power water facilities, especially solar energy. I believe this represents the beginning of a monumental shift in our industry to align itself with sustainability.
How far can efficient infrastructure and water sustainability support economic growth in the GCC?
A: Economic growth is seriously jeopardised by the challenges that I mentioned, but these are surmountable. Efficient infrastructure and water sustainability is the foundation on which growth is built. We have no choice but to address and overcome these challenges.
What ongoing desalination projects worldwide have you been most impressed by and why?
A: I think the initiative under King Abdullah, the custodian of the two holy mosques in Saudi Arabia, to bring renewable energy to power desalination is a breakthrough in innovation. This will be the first sizable desalination plant
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operation to be powered by solar energy, with the potential to reconsider how we go about our business.
In your opinion, how will water sustainability and desalination develop over the coming years?
A: I think we will be moving in the direction of utilising renewable energy to offset traditional energy supply. It will not, however, be limited to energy. Water sustainability will include other advancements I mentioned, such as gains in membrane design, rate of water recovery, zero desalination discharge, automation, smart systems and supply-chain in operations and transmission, as well as materials design in the manufacturing of parts and components. The cumulative effect of all of this will cause a big shift in our industry. I also believe that advanced water reuse will continue to grow in importance around the world and it is an area in which the International Desalination Association plans to become more involved. I really think we are at the edge of a new frontier.
How important is the International Water Summit as a platform for both the global and regional water management industry?
A: As you know, this is the most important global market for desalination. Therefore, what goes on here at this summit and conference is of interest to everyone in the desalination industry. This is an extremely important event.
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NEWS
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FCC Aqualia enters Qatar with 10- UVGERMI shows year US$355mn sewerage contract new air purifier Stand no: 4414 - France Pavilion
The Qatari treatment plant will provide services to more than 200,000 residents Stand no: 3110 A CONSORTIUM composed of Spain’s FCC Aqualia, the public services group's water management subsidiary, and South Korea’s Hyundai, has won a contract valued at EUR300mn (US$355mn) for the management of the sewerage system in Al Dhakhira, Qatar for the next 10 years. The project, commissioned by the Ashgal organisation (Public Works Authority) consists of the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the wastewater treatment facilities, wastewater pumping stations, transfer pumping station and collectors associated with the city of Al Dhakhira in Qatar. The new treatment plant will handle an average flow of 56,200 cu/m per day and provide service to a population of more than 200,000 residents. The consortium will deploy the latest technology in sewerage and wastewater treatment, using more than 35km of pipes, with peak flows of 168,000 cu/m (equal to 66 Olympic pools) and a wastewater tank with a capacity of 84,000 cu/m. This new contract is the third for FCC Aqualia in this region and marks its entry into Qatar. Pre-
viously it was awarded the sewerage management contract in Abu Dhabi for the city of Al-Ain and the contract in Saudi Arabia for enhancing the efficiency of Riyadh’s supply network. FCC Aqualia comments that with this contract, it consolidates its presence in the Middle East and becomes the leading Spanish company in the region specialised in the management of the integral water cycle. The global water management company also announced in December 2014 that it had been awarded three new contracts in the European countries: Spain, Serbia, and Kosovo. Won through Aqualia Infraestructuras, the project in Vrsac, Serbia is valued at EUR5.6mn (US$6.6mn) and will consist of building a treatment plant with a capacity to produce 26,000 cu/m of drinking water per day for the city. This will be the company’s first time working in the Balkan country. In Kosovo, Regional Water Company Hidroregjioni Jugor has pre-awarded FCC Aqualia a project valued at nearly EUR10.5mn (US$12.4mn), constructing the Prizren treatment plant.
UVGERMI, WHICH has over 20 years of experience in the development of ultraviolet (UV) reactors for treating water, air and surfaces, is exhibiting for the first time at IWS and WFES to present its expertise and products to local environmental professionals and position itself in the UAE market. UVGERMI manufactures UV reactors for a wide range of applications for drinking water, wastewater, water in swimming pools, rain water, air, surfaces, and water in industrial processes. At the summit, UVGERMI is showcasing one of its flagship products: the GERMI R75 air purifier, designed to treat airborne contamination and chemical contamination of the air. It acts on contaminants such as VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds), odours, viruses, bacteria and moulds and is suitable in most environments including manufacturing plants, hospitals and offices. The purifier uses a mix of photocatalysis and UV sterilisation. Drawing the ambient air through a fine filter that traps the volatile particles, it is then passed via a fibre, coated with a photocatalytic substrate made from titanium oxide. Under the effect of the germicidal lamp, the titanium oxide releases free radicals (OH), which are diffused in the area to be treated. These free radicals enable the immediate decomposition of the organic and micro-organic compounds by transforming them into basic molecules, such as water and carbon dioxide. The action of the free radicals continues in the ambient air. The second benefit of a UV lamp is to use its germicidal power to increase the destruction of micro-organisms (bacteria, viruses and moulds).
UAE rain enhancement research programme launches 'THE UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science' is set to launch today during the second day of the International Water Summit (IWS), co-located with the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2015, at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC). With the inauguration scheduled for 2pm on the National Centre of Meteorology & Seismology's (NCMS) stand, number 6320 in Hall 6, the ceremony will be held as part of the annual Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW). Aligned with the National Innovation Strategy, which was announced in October 2014,'The UAE
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Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science' reiterates the UAE’s commitment to advancing the science of rain enhancement. The research program was established by the UAE Ministry of Presidential Affairs through the NCMS. The programme aims to expand global water security through promoting scientific best practices and collaboration in rain enhancement research and sustainable methods of enhancing precipitation to increase rainfall in the UAE, as well as the region's other arid areas. The UAE rain enhancement programme has invited research submissions from individuals
and organisations on new integrated technologies that enhance the efficiency of cloud seeding operations and improve its predictive capabilities. Open to domestic and overseas candidates from both the public and private sector, as well as profit and non-profit entities, the programme will aim to award a US$1.5mn grant each to two path-breaking proposals over a three-year project timescale. Interested participants are invited to submit a pre-proposal to NCMS via its website www.uaerep.ae on, or before, 16 March 2015.
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