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DAILY NEWS

DAY 2 19 JAN 2016

SUSTAINABILITY AT THE HEART OF IWS The International Water Summit (IWS) jump-started yesterday with enthusiastic exhibitors and visitors who see the four-day event as an opportunity to create a better future.

Part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) 2016, the IWS is supported by the International Desalination Association (IDA). Now in its fourth Charlie Fricke displays his award surrounded by Innovate@IWS panellists. year, the IWS is a global platform for promoting water sustainability and addressing water challenges across the region. IDA’s role as a supporter of the IWS is multi-level, including representation on the IWS’ International Advisory Board by IDA directors Leon Awerbuch and Michel Canet, secretary general Patricia A. Burke and former second vice-president Miguel Angel Sanz. “IWS’ emphasis on fostering innovation, best practices and collaboration mirrors IDA’s role to promoting this approach to sustainable water solutions around the world,” said Burke.

Part of the summit, the Innovate@IWS is designed to find and accelerate next-gen technologies in water sustainability. The Day 1 saw Charlie Fricke, V-P, Strategic Sales at Echologics win for ‘EchoShore: Permanent and Semi-Permanent Water Main Monitoring’.

Echologics provides acoustic-based technology and monitoring services that deliver data to water authorities, pinpointing the location of leaks and degraded pipe thereby saving water, preventing catastrophic breaks and enabling proactive maintenance.

At the Zayed Future Energy Prize that was awarded yesterday and attended by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed underlined the UAE will continue to be a leader in driving sustainable innovations across the globe.

“At this critical time in the global dialogue around sustainability and clean energy, the UAE has shown farsighted leadership in ensuring innovation plays a central role in addressing the world’s common concerns,” he said. “Because of this, Abu Dhabi is a focal point for action that carries us along the path of sustainable development. This is a journey that we began under the farsighted vision of our founding father Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, whose legacy defines the UAE’s past and will continue to define its future.”

CONTENTS NEWS: GE, Masdar partner for wastewater project

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TECH NEWS: Dow’s UF modules provide low-cost clean water

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FEATURE: GCC to hike desal capacity 40% by 2020

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Q&A: Adil Bushnak, Bushnak Group

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Conference floorplan

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Innovate@IWS

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NEWS: First energypowered desal plant starts up in Morocco

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GE, Masdar join hands to develop first energyneutral wastewater treatment plant At the International Water Summit (IWS), GE has announced that as part of its US$10bn Ecomagination technology research commitment, GE is focused on advancing innovation around the water-energy nexus.

GE and Masdar will work together to implement the first energy-neutral wastewater treatment process employing GE’s portfolio of energy neutral products in the Middle East region.

Further, GE will also join hands with Goldman Sachs to identify new opportunities to deploy capital and develop innovative financing models for water projects around the world.

In another key initiative, GE and MWH Global, an engineering, consulting and construction firm, will work together to develop new water reuse and energy-neutral wastewater projects using innovative business models.

Industries can test and prove new distributed generation models that produce clean energy or clean water at the customers’ sites.

GE also unveiled a white paper on the opportunities and risks associated with the energy and water landscape of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at IWS 2016.

Deb Frodl, global executive director – Ecomagination of GE, said, “The shared nature of water and energy resources means that no individual

company, industry, country, or even a region, can ensure access to clean energy and clean water on its own. The report underlines the need to promote collaborative innovation that will help bring energy costs down and provide new water service models. This can be further supported through advanced technologies that help in doubling energy productivity, scaling distributed clean energy, and building smart infrastructure. All these are ‘win-win’ opportunities for water and energy.”

GE has partnered with the World Resources Institute (WRI) to prepare the report titled Water, Energy, Risks & Rewards - Challenges Opportunities and Ideas for Innovation at the WaterEnergy Nexus and it is being distributed to visitors at the summit.

The report is also available online at http://invent.ge/1OpSA1T. Stand no: 5420

Ecoplage technique helps save beaches and produce more water French firm Ecoplage has come up with an innovative solution to protect beach against corrosion as well as provide water to produce energy.

The Ecoplage beach drainage system consists of placing drains under the beach up to two metres deep, parallel to the coastline and connected to a pumping station. The drainage dries foreshore, slows erosion and promotes the fattening of the beach. The process produces a significant amount of filtered seawater. It also promotes the flow of seawater towards the drain and lowers the level of water table under the beach.

With the Enerplage system, seawater is filtered perfectly after the drainage to produce energy. This is the principle of ‘thalassothermie’ (use of the heating power of the sea) to produce heat or cold and so supply the infrastructure on the coast like hotels and residences.

Jean-Yves Audrain, CEO at Ecoplage, said, “The principle is to dewater the

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Jean-Yves Audrain, Ecoplage CEO, speaks about the unique concept of filtering seawater and protecting beaches.

beach and by dewatering the beach, we stabilise the beach without any negative impact. As we dewater, we also collect a huge amount of filtered seawater. We can economise water use twenty times more with our seawater heating technology. However, this system is unique to each beach and one needs to understand that this is perhaps not a global solution.”

With its first project at Jumeirah Beach in Dubai, the company has

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reduced erosion by 100 per cent in three years as well as oxygenated lagoon areas with the produced water.

The Jumeirah Beach is 1,400 metre long and 80 metre wide with 1,000 metre of eroding section south of the beach and negative sentiment budget of 30,000 cu/m per year.

With the Ecoplage process, the beach received nourishment for 56,000 cu/m of sand with a 950-metre long drain piping. In two years’ time, since the implementation in late 2011, the beach has lost less sand than it used to in a year.

The water produced by the system can be used for supplying to industrial processes through reverse osmosis desalination, production of heat or cold using heat pumps and exchangers, fish and shell farming, the re-oxygenation of basins or lagoons, among many other uses.

Stand No: 8300

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Dow’s UF modules provide low-cost clean water Dow Water & Process Solutions IntegraFlux Ultrafiltration (UF) modules feature XP Fibre — a highperformance, breakthrough fibre that delivers high-quality water at low cost, according to the company.

Launched last year, the latest industrial and municipal ultrafiltration water treatment modules were awarded ‘Best Technology Innovation Award’ in the membrane category at Aquatech Conference in 2015.

Dow’s ultrafiltration modules (UF), outside-in fibre technology that features high clean-ability, low chemical consumption, high recovery, superior combination of mechanical properties and chemical resistance, has set the standard for RO pre-treatment, drinking water production, and wastewater treatment applications.

“The new XP Fibre boosts UF productivity and efficiency while helping to lower capital and operating expenses,” said business unit director

IntegraFlux modules and IntegraPac skids with XP fibre are ideal for industrial markets where high productivity water filtration solutions are in high demand. (Photo: Dow Water & Process Solutions)

for filtration at Dow Cedella Beazley.

The fibre has 35 per cent greater permeability than Dow’s previous version. The IntegraFlux modules operate at 40 per cent higher flux compared to their predecessor at the same trans-membrane pressure, and produce up to 30 per cent less wastewater with no compromise on the quality of filtrate water.

The UF product portfolio features DOW IntegraFlux Ultrafiltration

Modules and DOW IntegraPac Ultrafiltration Skids that consist of latest high permeability XP fibre to improve operating efficiencies and productivity. The modules incorporate PVDF hollow fibre membranes in an outside-in flow configuration with a 0.03 micron nominal pore diametre making them ideal for protecting downstream processes such as RO. Dow emphasised that the technology will enable it to aid its customers in addressing water challenges and adhering to strict water treatment standards worldwide.

“IntegraFlux modules and IntegraPac skids with XP fibre are perfect for industrial markets where high productivity water filtration solutions are in high demand,” Dow noted.

In 2015, Dow Water & Process Solutions also opened its best-in-class DOW FILMTEC™ reverse osmosis (RO) elements in Saudi Arabia, the first of its kind outside of the USA.

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GCC TO HIKE DESALINATION CAPACITY 40% BY 2020 As population increases and supply reduces, the region is looking at new resources and investments to produce more water.

The GCC will increase its total seawater desalination capacity by nearly 40 per cent in four years, in an effort to meet the rapidly increasing demand for potable water in the region, according to figures revealed by IWS in collaboration with MEED Projects.

According to the data produced by MEED Projects, the GCC’s current seawater desalination capacity of approximately 4,000mn imperial gallons a day (MIGD) is set to increase to more than 5,500MIGD over the next five years as the GCC states invest heavily in increasing potable water supply.

Desalination is becoming an increasingly important matter for countries like the UAE and Qatar, which have experienced rapid hikes in demand for water on the back of strong economic and population growth, and Saudi Arabia where groundwater supplies are depleting. As a result, there is a growing need for new water resources, says Ed James, director of content and analysis at MEED Projects.

Currently, demand for potable water in the region is about 3,300MIGD and is expected to grow to about 5,200MIGD by 2020. While current reserve margins between supply and demand appear to be at comfortable levels, at country and local network levels, the supply-demand gaps are much smaller. While Qatar and the UAE have enjoyed comfortable reserve

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In coming years, largest water investments are likely to be made in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Kuwait.

(Photo: Sumroeng Chinnapan/Shutterstock)

margins in recent years, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Kuwait have faced real challenges meeting demand, especially during the summer months. Aging plants also do not always operate at full design capacity, further reducing the total output.

“As oil revenues decrease and the issue of water has climbed up the political agenda, governments have tried to dampen demand and reduce capital and operational expenditure.”

For example, earlier this year Abu Dhabi imposed water tariffs for the first time on UAE nationals while increasing existing prices for expatriate users as a means of decreasing subsidies and lowering demand. The emirate hiked water tariffs for those exceeding the daily limit of 700 litres in flats and 5,000 litres in villas this month.

The move emulated Dubai’s decision in 2010 to raise water tariffs with the result that annual demand growth slowed from 10 per cent to just four per cent in the emirate,” James says.

“Our data shows that over the last 10

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years, the region has invested US$76bn in standalone water projects. If we add the power component investment of these desalination facilities, that figure exceeds well over US$100bn. Going forward, we expect the largest investments to be made in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Kuwait, which have the steepest short-term demand projections. The addition of more than 1,500MIGD of new capacity will likely require a similarly large amount of investment.

“With growing demand and the large investments being made towards desalination projects in the region, greater awareness and discussion is needed more than ever before around sustainable practice,” James notes.

According to experts, events like IWS allow industry professionals from around the world to share their knowledge and expertise with decision makers and stakeholders who are increasingly looking for the most energy efficient ways of producing consumable water.

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‘GCC NATIONS MUST JOIN HANDS TO TACKLE ISSUES’ Adil Bushnak, Chairman and CEO, Bushnak Group normal after few months, having stored tertiary treated wastewater. In addition, generating energy and fertilisers from waste sludge is also an accomplishment.

How important is the International Water Summit as a platform for both the global and regional water management industry?

International Water Summit is the best platform I know that brings together experts as well as government and business leaders in water, energy and environment to meet and learn from each other.

As one of the most water-scarce regions in the world, how can the GCC be assured of water security in the future?

GCC has to apply Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) rules, not their usual practices, in order to achieve water security for future generations.

First of all, full water cost has to be recovered from all users, including farmers, in order to secure financial sustainability and achieve balanced sustainable environment. Governments have to then involve the private sector to finance water plants, projects and help localise the industrial technology and human capital in order to move to a knowledge-based economy. After that, we have to involve the local communities in the management of local water sources and infrastructure in order to ensure management sustainability of water services.

The best local management and

How would you rate the UAE in terms of its approach to and adoption of sustainable water technologies and research?

The UAE is the best among GCC countries and is moving ahead to achieve set targets.

sustainability model that has proven successful for more than 1,000 years in the region is Water Waqf, which is the local NGO involving the governments as well as other stakeholders.

How can governments best address water security in order to safeguard water access in the region?

We must apply aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) solutions to store excess water including rain water and treated wastewater.

What technological or infrastructure innovations within the water reuse and management industry have you been most excited about recently?

ASR will be most important because it is proven that water quality returns to

We have to involve the local communities in the management of local water sources and infrastructure in order to ensure management sustainability of water services.

Adil Bushnak - CEO, Bushnak Company

What are the current major challenges faced by the water-energy nexus in the region, and what steps are governments taking the address these?

The GCC will suffer more in the future from lack of energy sources, which will make desalination much more difficult unless we make use of renewable energy sources and develop new sources for energy for desalination using forward osmosis and pressure retarded osmosis.

How do you see water sustainability and availability developing over coming years?

There are more problems expected unless GCC countries cooperate to solve future challenges and turn them to future opportunities. I urge the UAE to take the lead.

I would like to give two example technologies which I am supporting now because they can provide breakthrough sustainable solutions for GCC and all arid regions as examples of transformative technologies: • Using saline water and renewable energy to produce food in cool green houses and to water plant roots using ground rain.

• Using available humidity to produce rain in the desert. Thus, you can produce drinkable water, local food, and hydroelectric power at minimum cost any time.

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DAY 1

CONFERENCE HALL A - 19 JAN 09.30

WELCOME ADDRESS

STRATEGIES TO MANAGE URBAN WATER SUPPLY RESILIENCE

KEYNOTE PANEL SESSION: UAE WATER LEADERS the future of the UAE’s water sector. Discussing the UAE’s integrated approach to managing water supply and demand, the panel will also consider on-going regulatory developments to support and promote sustainability.

09.40 10.30

12.10 13.00

Around the world, local and state authorities are grappling with ways to meet increasing demand for water while managing dwindling resources. Drawing on global case studies and looking in detail at water stressed markets in the USA and Australia, this session focuses on the future of effective robust water resilience programmes.

Moderator: J. Carl Ganter, Managing Director, Circle of Blue Professor Mike Young, Water and Environmental Policy, University of

Moderator:

Adelaide

Edmund O’Sullivan, www.edmundosullivan.com H.E. Eng Fatima Al Foora, Assistant Undersecretary for Electricity, Clean

Naomi Rosenthal, Key Account Manager, South Pole Group Henk WJ Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, Kingdom

Ministry of Energy (UAE) Saif Saeed Al Qubaisi, Acting Director-General, Regulation and Supervision Bureau (RSB)

Energy and Desalinated Water Affairs,

of The Netherlands

Dr. Mohamed Yousef Al Madfaei, Executive Director for Integrated Environment Policy & Planning,

Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi

Eng. Mohammed Bin Jarsh, Managing Director, ADWEC Alan Thomson, Managing Director, Abu Dhabi Sewerage

13.00 14.30

Lunch and exhibition

Services Company (ADSSC)

STREAM A DESALINATION AND WASTEWATER IN THE REGION’S MOST ACTIVE WATER MARKETS

10.30 11.00

What are the MENA region’s water requirements over the next decade – and how is it expected to shift? The GCC countries alone are expected to increase desalination capacity by %40 before 2020.

We focus in particular on the market in the UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Egypt.

DEVELOPING ROBUST ASSET MANAGEMENT PLANS TO PROTECT WATER NETWORKS 12.10 13.00

Moderator:

Coffee break

Sustainable desalination and water reuse technology is a potential game-changer for the industry at large - and water security in particular.

But questions still remain. Is the technology scalable? Can it be costcompetitive? Will it offer a genuine alternative? What are the limitations the industry needs to be aware of? These questions and more will be discussed in full.

The water market is changing. This session will focus on best practice initiatives and technology designed to translate water conservation theory into practice, and showcase how effective policy can drive behavioural and cultural change.

15.15 16.00

Moderator: Edmund O’Sullivan, www.edmundosullivan.com Assaad B. Saadeh, Water Resources, Community Relation Manager, Zone Asia, Oceania, Middle East & Africa,

Nestle Waters Management &

Technology

Dr.Ibrahim Abdel Gelil, Adjunct Prof. Arabian Gulf University, Consultant, Energy and Environment,

Moderator:

Thierry Mallet, Executive Vice President, Group Innovation, Marketing and

Suez Environnment

Mohammad El Ramahi, Associate Director, Asset Management, Engineering and Operations,

AFED

Eng. Abdulla Abdulla Alsuwaidi, Executive Operations Director,

Leon Awerbuch, Dean, IDA Desalination Academy & President, Leading Edge Technologies Dr. Abdullah Al-AlShaikh, Advanced Water Technology Carlos Cosín Fernández, Chairman & CEO, Abengoa Water Dr. Corrado Sommariva, Managing Director, ILF Middle East Business Performance,

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Najib Dandachi, Asset Management Director, TRANSCO Hervé Faujour, Technical & Performance Director, Veolia Middle East

GLOBAL BEST PRACTICE IN DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT

DEVELOPMENTS IN SUSTAINABLE DESALINATION AND WATER REUSE

11.20 12.10

Andrew Walker, Director of Strategy and International Relations, IWS Adam Lovell, Executive Director, Water Services Association of

Australia

Bastien Simeon, Global Head of Water, KPMG Christopher Gasson, Owner, Global Water Intelligence Ed James, Director Project Analysis, MEED Projects Elena Bourganskaia, Global Head of Water & Municipal Infrastructure, IFC

11.00

Moderator:

Masdar

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Abu Dhabi Distribution Company (ADDC) Claire Yeates, Director, Waterscan

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STREAM B

STREAM C

TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN ABU DHABI EMIRATE

WATER INDUSTRY’S ROLE IN PROGRESSING THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY AGENDA

Pro-actively managing large-scale water demand is integral to energy

Moderator:

Mohamed Dawoud, Manager, Water Resources 14.30 15.15

Department,

Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi

Alejandro Jimenez, Head of Business Development & Projects,

Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA) Prof. Peter Werner, Director, UAEU National Water Centre Malcolm Haddock, Planning and Forecasting Manager, Abu Dhabi Sewerage Services Company (ADSSC)

16.20 17.00

alternative sources of water, this session will outline the current state of the art.

Moderator:

Christopher Decker, Principal, strategy& Nathan Epp, Senior Engineer - Energy & Commercial Projects, Goulburn

Valley Water

Ashley Roe, Chief Executive, British Water Adam Lovell, Executive Director, Water Services Association of

Dr. Walid Elshorbagy, Professor of Water Resources and Technical Lead,

MWH Global

Australia

Elena Barbizet, CEO and Co-founder, Atoll Energy

KUWAIT’S IWP & WWTP PLANS

15.15 16.00

Kuwait is developing new water projects to meet a rapid increase in demand, including Az-Zour North, Al Khairan Phase 1 and Umm al-Hayman. This upsurge in activity is being accompanied by updates to Public Private Partnership (PPP) legislation, which should ensure greater opportunity for the private sector. This session reveals the country’s latest utility-scale plans.

STREAM C CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE GCC’S INDUSTRIAL SECTOR

Moderator:

Edmund O’Sullivan, www.edmundosullivan.com Director, Dept. of Studies & Research

Electricity & Water (Kuwait) 16.00 16.20

Ministry of 16.20 17.00

Coffee break

Water intensive processes in hydrocarbons, mining, and food and beverage make the industrial sector an increasingly attractive market to water services specialists working across the supply chain. This is your opportunity to hear the future plans of leading local industrial water users.

Moderator:

Zakia Bahjou, Regional Commercial Manager, Dow Water & Process

Solutions, Middle East, Africa & Turkey

Philippe Valerio, Business Development Director for Industrial Applications,

Degremont

Hervé Faujour, Technical and Performance Director, Veolia Middle

East Senior Representative, CH2M

CLOSE OF DAY 1

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Company Name

Hall No.

Stand No.

Danish Water Technology Group

3

Denmark Pavilion

Mycometer

3

Denmark Pavilion

Hexa-Cover

3

Denmark Pavilion

Kamstrup

3

Denmark Pavilion

Rambøll

3

Denmark Pavilion

Business France/ Club Ademe International/ Vivapolis

4

4327

3312

Bio-UV

4

4322

3

3311

Datalink Instruments Dtli

4

4320

Emirates Tech

4

4220

Dosatron

4

4325

Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi

4

4130

Mascara

4

4328

Faggiolati Pumps SPA

3

3421

Odyssee Environnement

4

4323

Federal Electricity & Water Authority

4

4450

Orelis Environnement

4

4321

Food Security Center Abu Dhabi

4

4410

POLE EAU- France WATER TEAM

4

4322

Guangzhou Chemical Import & Export Co. Ltd.

3

3104

HYDROVIDE-HYDROVIDEO GROUP

4

4324

Heng Long Electric Co., Ltd.

3

3203

TMW

4

4326

Hepworth

4

4101

Inter Act Smart Solutions

3

3007

Jinluo Water Co. Ltd

4

4221

CLA-VAL EUROPE SARL

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Switzerland Pavilion

Longkou Chengfeng Zhiyuan Technology Co. Ltd

3

3103

Cleantech Switzerland

7

Switzerland Pavilion

Membrana – 3M Membranes Business Unit

3

3322

CleantechAlps

7

Switzerland Pavilion

Mega Civic Srl

3

3420

Energy8

7

Switzerland Pavilion

Ministry of Environment and Water

3

3110

Imeth

7

Switzerland Pavilion

Nanotera Group

4

4120

T-LINK

7

Switzerland Pavilion

Punjab Saaf Pani Company

3

3201

Regulation and Supervision Bureau

4

4331 British Water

4

UK Pavilion

Saline Water Conversion Corporation

4

4332 Aquamatix Ltd

4

4312

SEAS Falcon Trading LLC

3

3230 Bluewater Bio Ltd.

4

4312

Suez

4

4330

The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited

BYRNE LOOBY

4

4312

3

3002

CatalySystems Ltd

4

4312

Turan Makina Plastik Boru Sistemleri A.S.

3

3321

ERG (Air Pollution Control) Ltd

4

4312

UVGERMI

3

3220

METASPHERE

4

4312

Waterleau

3

3001

Savage Recycling Showers Ltd.

4

4310

WEHRLE Umwelt Gmbh

3

3447

Xylem Water Solutions Middle East Region FZCO

VIP-Polymers Ltd

4

4311

3

3330

Company Name

Hall No.

Stand No.

Abu Dhabi Ports

4

4230

Abu Dhabi Sewerage Services Company

4

4210

Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority

4

4100

Ak-Kim Kimya Sanayi ve Tic. A.S.

4

3102

Al Wasail Industrial Company

3

3000

Avita Biomodulare Teichsysteme Gmbh

3

3200

Beeldstroo Consultancy

3

3204

BMC Gulf Trading LLC

4

4000

France Pavilion

Deltares

3

3003

DENTSU INC.

3

DG TAKANO Co., Ltd.

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Denmark Pavilion

Switzerland Pavilion

UK Pavilion

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Company Name

Hall No.

Stand No.

Waterscan Ltd

4

4312

Ham Baker Adams Ltd.

4

4311

USA Pavilion Andrew Kurth

3

3433

Bio-Microbics

3

3437

Ecomatrix

3

3434

Evoqua

3

3451

Niagara Conservation Corp

3

3430

Parkson Corporation

3

3431

Proco Products

3

3436

Trevi System

3

3450

Water Environment Federation

3

3432

THE INNOVATION PAVILION / Innovate@IWS

Company Name

Stand No.

SPONSORS Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority

Strategic Sponsor

Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ADCCI)

Diamond Sponsor

Ak-Kim Kimya Sanayi ve Tic. A.S.

Bronze Sponsor

Media Partners AEC Online

Media Partner

Agenda SRL - Watergas

Media Partner

Amwal Magazine - Eurabia Media Corp.

Media Partner

Asian Water

Media Partner

Desaldata

Media Partner

Eye of Riyadh

Media Partner

Global Water Intelligence

Media Partner

Neopromo - Capital Business

Media Partner

Aluline Grease Traps Ltd.

3

IP07

Oil & Gas Directory Middle East

Media Partner

Calix Ltd

3

IP05

The Water Network- AquaSPE AG

Media Partner

VWM Gmbh - Vienna Water Monitoring Solutions

3

IP01

Water Desalination Report

Media Partner

Regionality DMCC /Drinkable Air UAE

3

IP08

World Centre Kuwait

Media Partner

Isle Utilities

3

IP06

CPH World Media s.a.r.l.

Media Partner

Echologics

3

IP02

Water Digest

Media Partner

Wetox Limited

3

IP03

British Water

Media Partner

International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture

3

IP04

World Construction Today

Media Partner

SEALEAU B.V.

3

IP11

Danish Water Technology Group

Media Partner

Resolute Marine Energy, Inc.

3

IP10

Water Environment Federation

Stand No. 3432

ProAcqua Group

3

IP12

Everything About Water

Stand No. 3302

Ducane Australia Pty Ltd (Drainwave)

3

IP09

Society of Engineers

Stand No. 3202

Masdar Institute

3

Revolve Media

Stand No. 3301

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SEALEAU - A Dutch company of Greek origin, Sealeau offers a solution to regulatory pressure and water stress through management of salty wastewater and resource recovery. Waste heat or renewable energy is utilised to transform brine into fit-for-purpose water. Additionally, the process can recover valuable minerals from brine, including NaCl and CaCO3.

VWM (Vienna Water Monitoring Solutions) GmbH - The ColiMinder instrument is used to estimate the degree of microbiological contamination for water quality monitoring and process control. It VWM can.

ColiMinder is batch measurement process that measures the enzymatic activity of target organisms, generating results in 15 minutes (far faster than conventional lab based measurements). There are 3 variants of the instrument; the ColiMinder Industrial, the ColiMinder Mobile and the ColiMinder OMS (Outdoor Measurement Station).

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DAILY NEWS | DAY 2 | 19 JANUARY 2016

First energy-powered desal plant starts up in Morocco

DOOSAN WINS ORDER

This image is used for Morocco’s first clean representational purposes only. energy-powered (Photo: Daniel Taeger/Shutterstock) desalination project has begun operations at Green Energy Park in Ben Guerir.

“Today, we have a plant which can desalinate five cu/m of water per hour using only the energy of the sun,” said Badr Ikken, general manager of Research Institute on Solar Energy and New Energy (IRESEN).

A team of researchers and industrialists have developed the Aquasolar project, a seawater desalination prototype which is mobile and modular, and powered by solar thermal and photovoltaic (PV) energy.

Fifty seven PV panels with a combined capacity of 10kW and 18 solar thermal panels of 14kW power the processes of reverse osmosis (RO) and membrane distillation. The combination of two technologies for desalination and two solar technologies allows the device to increase the volume of processed water with minimum amount of brine produced. RO uses electricity from the PV cells, while membrane distillation process is powered by the solar thermal panels.

The Aquasolar project is funded by the IRESEN as part of the INNOTHERMI initiative. According to IRESEN, the project is at a convenient location and can supply fresh water to tourist complexes, schools and other facilities.

Doosan Hydro Technology has won an order from South Korean engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contractor Samsung Construction and Trading for the water and wastewater treatment system on the Qatar Facility D integrated water and power production project.

Samsung was awarded the EPC contract for Facility D, which is being developed by Mitsubishi Corporation and Tokyo Electric Power Company.

Doosan’s scope of work includes the demineralisation package, industrial wastewater treatment, oily water treatment and sanitary wastewater treatment.

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction also won an order worth US$80mn last year to develop phase two of the Al Ansab Sewage Treatment Plant in Oman. The sewage water treatment plant uses Membrane Bioreactor Technology (MBT) and has a daily capacity of 50,000 tonnes. Once completed, it is expected to be among the largest MBT plants in the world.

FOR QATARI WATER TREATMENT PLANT

ERC builds 50 dams in arid Yemeni province Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) has completed the construction of a dam project in Yemen, set to benefit thousands of families in Yemen’s Abyan province.

Fifty small dams have been built over the past month following the directives of ERC’s chairman emeritus Sheikha

Fatima bin Mubarak to assist war-afflicted people in Yemen.

“This is the first step of the work in the water and environment field,” said Ghaida Al Rashidi, who is overseeing the implementation of Sheikha Fatima projects in Yemen.

Following surveys of land in the area and the needs of residents, ERC decided to implement this project. Now, other surveys are being conducted in other parts of Abyan to gauge the needs of the residents. The dams will help collect and store rainwater that can then be used for drinking, cooking and agriculture.

Moreover, the dams were built by the residents themselves, reveals Al Rashidi. Each structure is 10 metres long and between three and five metres high, made of stone and cement and designed by Abyan architect Mohamed Al Khayali, who has also supervised their construction. The dams were built in an oval shape so that they can bear the pressure of water and ensure cracks are not formed.

According to several reports, Rasd district in Abyan province has been severely affected by water shortage. Most residents are poor and cannot solve the water problem on their own. Some have even left the area due to poor water supply. Until the dams were built, residents of Rasd relied on wells, which usually dry up.

The project architects are hopeful that the newly-built dams will restore the livelihoods of Rasd residents.

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