The kingdom of Jordan signed an agreement yesterday with a French-Egyptian consortium to build one of the world’s largest desalination plants, the New Arab news site reports. The Aqaba Amman…

A joint venture of Jacobs and McCarthy has won a $160m contract to improve groundwater desalination capacity in southern California, where over-extraction of groundwater in the first half of the…

The Qatar Electricity and Water Authority (Kahramaa) has chosen South Korean contractor Samsung C&T Construction to build a $3.7bn combined power and desalination plant near Doha, Business Korea reports. When…

As Morocco suffers its worst drought for 40 years, French water specialist Veolia has agreed in principle to build a desalination plant near the capital, Rabat. Procured as a public-private…

Omani construction firm Douglas OHI has begun building temporary offices and utility infrastructure for the Ghubrah 3 Desalination Plant in Oman, set to be the sultanate’s largest. Designed and built…

A consortium led by Spanish contractor Acciona has broken ground in Morocco on what will be Africa’s largest desalination plant at Lamharza Essahel, about 40km south of Casablanca. The $650m…

Israel and Jordan have renewed a groundbreaking agreement to trade solar energy generated in Jordan, one of the world’s most water-stressed countries, for water desalinated in Israel. The MoU signed…