Middle East and North Africa Business Forum 2011 Summary
Situated in a hyper-arid and water-scarce region, the rapidly growing population has compounded the region’s water woes. Increased reliance on desalination, wastewater reuse and brackish groundwater abstraction is expected to continue. In Egypt alone, the capacity for wastewater treatment and reuse is expected to increase threefold under the integrated sanitation & sewerage infrastructure project. Qatar’s multipronged approach towards water sustainability includes increasing its desalination capacity, implementing aquifer storage and recovery and reducing water loss through enhanced network management. The National Water Company in Saudi Arabia is also setting up special purpose vehicles for treated sewage effluent projects.

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