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    Food, water security UAE’s key priorities in post-pandemic era

    06 Mar 2022

    The recently concluded Food for Future Summit, which was hosted by the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, with the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) as a strategic partner, can be regarded as a great step

    Water bearers quench thirst in Ramadan, but fear for their trade in Pakistani city of Karachi

    10 May 2021

    For more than four decades Ramzan has been a “mashki,” or water bearer, an age-old profession now in decline as water companies and tankers increasingly supply residents.

    Dubai firm announces side event at region’s first-ever climate week

    25 Mar 2022

    Dake Rechsand, the Dubai-based company specialising in sustainable solutions for water conservation and desert farming, has announced its participation in the upcoming Middle East and North Africa Climate Week (MENACW22), which is scheduled

    Water stress poses serious threat to people

    21 Jun 2022

    The World Resources Institute (WRI) has listed India among the 17 countries, home to one-quarter of the world’s population, which face extremely high water stress. India has 18% of the world’s population but only 4% of the global freshwater resources — being an agrarian economy, it is the world’s largest extractor of groundwater.

    Abu Dhabi based-Ma Hawa collaborates with leading organisations for humanitarian cause

    22 Nov 2023

    “Ma Hawa is proud to play its role in humanitarian causes. Through our alliance with organisations like Emirates Red Crescent, Ma Hawa will provide clean drinking water to needy populations across the world.”

    SEWA completes project to extend strategic water pipeline in Sharjah

    05 Jun 2023

    This significant endeavour, initiated in mid-July 2022, utilised environmentally friendly materials to ensure water quality, while effectively catering to the growing demand for freshwater in the region.

    Tackling water woes a major challenge

    23 May 2021

    There is no doubt that water is a very precious asset, like gold. In several countries, water has a very high value, but unfortunately is scarce. This is because population growth and climate change are putting a lot of strain on the planet’s limited water supplies.

    Water scarcity in Mexico City divides rich and poor

    28 Feb 2024

    While the large lake which is at the giant dam site of Valle De Bravo has water levels 32 per cent less than its capacity, and the lake bed of parched and cracked earth is exposed, many of the private estates of the rich around have brimful of private lakes inside. There is of course

    Water security, management need more attention

    29 Mar 2022

    World Water Day (WWD) is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis, in support of Sustainable Development

    Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq’s mighty river drying up

    21 Sep 2022

    It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself. But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where — with its twin river the Euphrates — it made Mesopotamia a cradle of civilisation thousands of

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