New Delhi, India - Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that water from India that once flowed across borders will be stopped, days after suspending a key water treaty with arch-rival Pakistan. New Delhi has blamed Islamabad for backing a deadly attack on tourists on the Indian side of contested...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Artificial intelligence (AI) has contributed to saving 150 million sheets of paper and conserving 1.5 billion liters of water, Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA) President Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi said on Wednesday.In a speech at the Saudi Green Initiative Forum 2024 held on the sidelines...

A prolonged drought in much of South America has forced tech giants Google and Amazon to rethink their plans for water-guzzling data centers

The Turkish leader met with Iraqi President Abdel Latif Rashid in Baghdad. He told Rashid that Turkey "had expectations of Iraq regarding the fight against the terrorist organization PKK, and that Iraq must be rid of all forms of terrorism", according to his office.

Gaza's health ministry said Israeli troops were shooting and firing "shells and (conducting) violent raids in its surroundings in preparation for its storming".

Doha, Qatar -- Qatar's Industrial Production index (IPI) in January 2024 reached 108.7 points, an increase of 4 percent compared to December 2023 and an increase of 5.5 percent compared to January 2023.The Planning and Statistics Authority has issued the press release of industrial production index for January 2024, calculated...

Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistan reached a tentative deal to unlock a $1.1 billion tranche of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout deal, the global lender said Wednesday, giving much-needed respite to the South Asian nation.Last summer, cash-strapped Pakistan sketched a $3 billion deal with the IMF as it battled a balance-of-payments...

DUBAI, UAE – Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum chaired the 81st meeting of DSCE, which was held virtually.The Council reviewed updates of the demand side management strategy for 2030 and 2050, which set well-studied goals to reduce water and electricity consumption...

In his annual State of the Union address to Congress, President Joe Biden said the US military would "lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the coast of Gaza that can receive large shipments carrying food, water medicine and temporary shelters."

Global condemnation flowed after Israeli forces in war-ravaged Gaza opened fire as Palestinian civilians scrambled for food aid during a chaotic incident which the Hamas-run territory's health ministry said killed over 100 people. The Israeli military said a "stampede" occurred when thousands of desperate Gazans surrounded a convoy of 38...

Oil spills in Iraq -- a country ravaged by decades of conflict, corruption and decaying infrastructure -- have contaminated farmland in the northern province, especially during the winter rains.

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Acting WHO Representative in Sudan Peter Graaff has said that the humanitarian and health crisis in the African country is alarming.The conflict that started 10 months ago has spread to new areas, resulting in widespread displacement of civilians, some of whom have been forced to move multiple...

Palestinian Territories - Six-year-old Hind Rajab pleaded to be rescued, after her family's car came under fire in war-ravaged Gaza City, leaving her alone, frightened and injured, surrounded by the bodies of her dead relatives."I am so scared," she had said in a desperate phone call to the Palestine Red...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week said he had ordered troops to prepare to go in to the city, crowded with displaced Palestinians, as it hunts down those responsible for the deadly October 7 attacks on southern Israel. The announcement has prompted concern from foreign governments including the United States...

The system demand for power surged to 56.5 TWh in 2023.

The aim is to develop technologies for clean energy.

TRIPOLI, LIBYA - The flood that devastated Libya's eastern port city of Derna last year has impacted up to 1.5 million people and will require $1.8 billion for reconstruction, according to a new report.On September 10, Storm Daniel hit the east coast of Libya, causing floods that collapsed two dams in...

Abdelrahman Iyad, wounded in Gaza and now being treated aboard the French helicopter carrier Dixmude, docked in Egypt, said he did not have time to leave his house before it was hit. "I was with my parents, my brother, my sister, my second sister and her husband and their daughter....

DOHA, QATAR – The Industrial Production index (IPI) of Qatar in November 2023 reached 91.7 points which is a fall of 1.5 percent compared to the previous month (October 2023).This is a decrease of by 5.8 percent compared to the corresponding month in 2022.Released by the Planning and Statistics Authority,...

Bringing food and supplies to the besieged population of Gaza, which is increasingly at risk of famine, also depends on the opening of new entry routes into the territory, the World Food Program (WFP), UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a joint statement.

Doha, Qatar -- Qatar's Producer Price Index (PPI) of the industrial sector in the country for November was 118.65 points, a decrease of 1.95 percent compared to October 2023. On Y-o-Y basis, PPI of November 2023 showed a decrease of 17.36 percent.The main four industry sectors by weight are "Mining"...

The US$3m-contract is for the laying of GRE pipes in Hatta.

Dubai, UAE -- The Arkiz Agricultural Project in Mauritania, which has been financed by the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) with a $34 million loan, has been inaugurated to enhance water and food security in the country and contribute to the development of key developmental sectors.Saudi Fund for Development (SFD)...

Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan - On the Caspian Sea coast in Turkmenistan, Batyr Yusupov can no longer ferry his passengers between two ports. There is not enough water."I used to go between Turkmenbashi and Hazar," the 36-year-old ferry worker said of the ports separated by a small gulf on Turkmenistan's coast."But we haven't...

BELFAST, UK - Long gone from Belfast's famed harbor where the Titanic was built, oysters are making a comeback thanks to a nursery installation project aimed at boosting marine life and water quality.Until the early 1900s, the narrow Belfast Lough channel was home to large oyster reefs but overfishing, disease and pollution...

Shenzhen, China - Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture discussed ways to enhance investments between the Kingdom and China in the aquaculture sector with representatives of more than 60 specialized Chinese companies.The National Fisheries Development Program, a delegation of Saudi ministry, participated in the Global Investment Promotion Conference, to...

Ouled Omar, Tunisia - Tunisian villager Ounissa Mazhoud ties two empty jerry cans to a donkey and cautiously descends a stony hill towards the last local source of water.The North African country, in its fourth year of drought, is grappling with its worst water scarcity in years.Mazhoud -- like other women...

"Civilians in Gaza continue to be relentlessly bombarded by Israel and collectively punished -- suffering death, siege, destruction and deprivation of the most essential human needs such as food, water, lifesaving medical supplies and other essentials on a massive scale," UN human rights chief Volker Turk told a press conference....

Richard Peeperkorn, the WHO's representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, said that since the start of the war, there had been 120,000 acute respiratory infections; close to 26,000 people with scabies and lice; 86,000 cases of diarrhea, including 44,000 among children aged under five, which he said was 20 to...

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA – The Kingdom's Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture Eng. Abdurrahman bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Fadhli signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Turkish Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı.The MoU aims to strengthen cooperation and enhance production capabilities in the domains of agriculture, livestock and...

Helsinki, Finland - Finland's Olkiluoto 3, the largest nuclear reactor in Europe, stopped production on Wednesday after a test caused the plant unit to unexpectedly go offline, its operator TVO said."During the test, the plant was supposed to produce electricity normally," said Johanna Aho, head of communication at TVO.Before production was interrupted at...

Abu Dhabi, UAE - ADNOC announced on Friday it opened “H2GO”, the region’s first high-speed green hydrogen pilot refueling station, to test a fleet of zero-emission hydrogen-powered vehicles. The station will be operated by ADNOC Distribution, and is likely to create green hydrogen from water using an electrolyzer powered by...

"Such an incredibly successful day," a SpaceX announcer said. "Even though we did have a… rapid unscheduled disassembly of both the Super Heavy Booster and the ship." The largest rocket ever built blasted off from the company's Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas shortly after 7:00 am local time.

Abu Dhabi, UAE - The UAE is building three desalination plants in Rafah to supply Gaza with water as part of its 'Gallant Knight 3' humanitarian operation.The production capacity of each plant is 200,000 gallons per day with a total of 600,000 gallons, benefiting 300,000 people per day.'Gallant Knight 3'...

JERUSALEM - The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned Monday its operations in war-torn Gaza would shut down within two days due to fuel shortages as fighting rages between Israel and Hamas."The humanitarian operation in Gaza will grind to a halt in the next 48 hours as no fuel is...

The kingdom is forging partnerships with major corporations to revolutionize water technologies and achieve water self-sufficiency.

The company posted an operating profit of US$1bn.

A month of Israeli strikes on targets within the Gaza Strip have destroyed or damaged 45 percent of all housing units in the Palestinian territory, Balakrishnan Rajagopal said, warning the destruction comes at a "tremendous cost to human life". The UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing stressed...

Panama City, Panama - The operator of the Panama Canal, the passageway for cargo ships between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, said Tuesday that it would gradually limit the number of daily crossings due to drought.Traffic will be reduced to 25 ships a day from Friday, down from 29, and will...

Dubai, UAE--A top Hamas official called on Egypt Sunday to take "decisive" action to expedite aid to Gaza amid criticism over the pace of vital supplies reaching the war-torn Palestinian territory."Egypt should not remain a spectator," Hamas politburo member Musa Abu Marzouk said in a statement."We expect a decisive stance...

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the US supports pauses in Israel's war against Hamas in order to let aid to flow into the Gaza Strip. He said the aid can include fuel needed for the restoration of electrical power, medical care, water purification and "so many...

Hamas released a list of around 7,000 names of people in Gaza it said had been killed in Israeli strikes. The list was produced a day after US President Joe Biden said he had "no confidence" in the militant group's death toll figures. Israel says 1,400 people were killed in...

Volker Turk exhorted for a ceasefire as the first step in order to save the lives of civilians through the delivery of quick and "effective humanitarian aid" in the Gaza Strip. He asserted that violence will never end unless leaders stand up and "take the humane choices that are required...

Describing the entry of a few dozens trucks of humanitarian aid into Gaza from Egypt as "not enough", EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that it was important to send in the basic things that make water and electricity supply being restored. He made the comments ahead of a...

The first aid trucks arrived in the war-torn Gaza Strip from Egypt, AFP journalists said, bringing desperately needed humanitarian relief to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian enclave under Israeli siege. Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas after the group carried out the deadliest attack in the country's history on October 7.

"We are in deep and advanced negotiations with all relevant sides to ensure that an aid operation in Gaza starts as quickly as possible... a first delivery is due to start in the next day or so," the UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said, quoted by his spokesman Jens Laerke...

It entered into seven solar, hydrogen agreements in China.

Demanding that aid be immediately allowed to go into the besieged enclave, Arab foreign minister condemned Israel's siege of Gaza in the wake of the shock attack by Palestinian militants on Israel. It has imposed a "complete siege" on the Gaza Strip, cutting off the water supply, food, electricity and...

The officials are suspected of "bad management" and negligence, among other offences, a statement from the prosecutor general's office said, adding that seven of them served currently or previously in offices responsible for water resources and dam management. "The mistakes that they made" and their "negligence in the matter of...

With this deal, Alpha Dhabi marks entry into water and wastewater domain.