The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is the most water scarce region in the world: home to 6.3% of the world’s population but only 1.4% of the world’s renewable fresh water. The International Water Summit is a major new global platform for promoting water sustainability in arid regions.
As a natural extension of the UAE’s commitment to sustainability, the 2nd International Water Summit will be co-located with the World Future Energy Summit “WFES”, bringing the nexus to life between mankind’s two most vital resources: water and energy.
IWS 2014 will be held at ADNEC from 20-22 January and give you the unique opportunity to network and do business with global leaders, municipalities, utilities, contractors, consultants and top decision makers from the public and private sectors within the Middle East and around the globe.
Commencing with a 1 day Summit, exhibition and a 2 day conference; this industry-shaping event provided opportunity for exchange of ideas, presentation of cutting-edge research findings, benchmarking of successful strategies and insight into the thoughts and vision of water industry leadership and technical innovators. IWS 2013 provided a highly interactive and feature rich event format hot topics and key concepts and developments will be shared through interactive panel discussions, keynote presentations, 1-2-1 interview sessions and interactive voting.
IWS 2013 Included:
- Global and local water governance and cross boundary cooperation
- The water challenges presented to arid and water scarce regions
- Water and energy for sustainable development
- Water network efficiency
- Tariff, Tax and Transfer
- Supply and demand management
- Desalination
- The water energy nexus
- Energy Conservation and cost efficiency
- Providing water solutions to rural communities
- Water resource classification, allocation and management
- Clean technologies and renewable energy integration into water production
- Water production, technology and processes to positively impact environment
- Public and private partnerships to promote water industry diversity and effectiveness
- Future challenges affecting water availability
- Reducing consumption, recycling and reuse