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- The GCC is required to invest an estimated $100 billion over the next ten years in the water and desalination projects to keep up with the surge in demands caused by increases in tourism and year on year population increases.
- The Middle East makes up 5% of the global population, but has only about 1% of the world's renewable frsh water
- The average annual increase of demand for desalinated water in the Arab world is 6% per annum compared to 3% global average
- Water supply from desalination plants to Jeddah will be increased from 630,000 to 1.3 million cubic metres daily within the next three years.Total water supply is currently 52 million cubic metres per day
- Marafiq estimates $53 billion is needed for future desalination projects .
- Some $28 billion, or 24 per cent of the region's total, will be invested in this sector over the next 10 years in Saudi Arabia. About $6 billion will be allocated for building new desalination water plants.
- Saudi Arabia is the world's largest producer of desalinated water with 30% of global production
- Fisia Italimpianti has won a US $563 million (AED 2.7 billion) contract to build a seawater desalination plant in Dubai's Jebel Ali
- Per capita water consumption in the UAE is higher than in any country in the world except for United States and Canada
- Abu Dhabi invites international companies to build and run desalination plants in an effort to meet the growing demand
- Federal Electricity and Water Authority (Fewa) is planning to build major desalination plants in the region- including a six million gallon per day desalination plant in Ajman
- UAE-based water treatment services provider Concorde-Corodex said it is in talks with private and government entities in the Emirates and abroad to set up about 15 small water desalination plants
- In Abu Dhabi Al Qudra Holding signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Suez Environment, the water and waste business line of the Suez Group
- The Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (SEWA) has launched a number of projects to help solve the problem of water shortage that occurs every year during the summer
- The second phase development of Fujairah power and desalination complex begins. This complex will yield 130 million gallons of water a day
- The World Bank has invested $1.3 billion in nine Iranian water and wastewater treatment projects
- Power and Water Procurement Company floats tender for 400-MW Salalah Independent Water and Power Project
- Plans are unveiled to develop the Sultanate's largest green-field Independent Power & Water Desalination projects which includes the construction of a desalination facility providing approx 130,000 cubic metres of water daily.
- Three companies have been qualified to implement the $600 million Disi Water Conveyance Project
- Jordan ministers outwardly claim that the greatest long-term challenge for Jordan is the creation of a sustainable water supply
- Al-Salam-5 water pumping station opened on Sheikh Jaber Canal (Al-Salam canal), in Balouza area, North Sinai governorate, northeast Egypt
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