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DAILY NEWS 21st January 2015
GCC water equipment market to reach US$4bn by 2020 THE GCC'S market for water and wastewater treatment equipment is set to undergo a predicted annual growth rate of 10.6 per cent, reaching US$4bn by 2020, according to a white paper released by Frost & Sullivan this week. Prepared exclusively for the International Water Summit (IWS), the paper, entitled 360 Degree Perspective on the GCC Water and Wastewater Treatment Market, also revealed that the region's fast-growing market for industry equipment – currently valued at an estimated US$2.2bn – is moving increasingly towards sustainable practices. Kshitij Nilkanth, program manager, environmental and water markets, at Frost & Sullivan, said, “The focus of the water sector in the region is surely shifting towards sustainable practices, wastewater treatment, and recycling. “Governments in the GCC have allocated approximately US$100bn towards implementing better water technologies and energy-efficient desalination,” he added. The growing value of developing and implementing sustainable business practices and technology is a theory supported by top tier industry executives attending IWS this year. Company executives at Xylem, a leading global water technology provider, drew attention to the current trends in innovation within the water and wastewater industry.
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GCC governments have reportedly allocated about US$100bn to implementing better water technologies
Peter Lewington, director wastewater pumping, growth centre transport at Xylem, stressed the growing focus worldwide of producing technology that is both cost-effective and low in energy consumption, as well as digital and smart technologies. The latter allow for increased remote access and analysis of large quantities of data. “It’s really about the ability to use data to manage and operate the assets and use that data as well to smartly run the products, so it delivers that holistic lifestyle cost.” With business in more than 150 countries through numerous market-leading product brands, Xylem was named in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the last three years for advancing sustainable business practices and solutions worldwide. While discussing the UAE's approach to adopting sustainable solutions, Glen Trickle, vice-president and director engineering and technology, commented, “What I see here is a lot of passion and urgency. There's a lot of more awareness here and it's really quite impressive, the speed at which things move and develop.” Lewington stated, “They say 'necessity is the mother of invention' and that's clearly true here. “What we see here that's different to Europe is that there's less competition between the stakeholders, there's a shared, common objective.” www.internationalwatersummit.com
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NEWS: Bluewater Bio highlights innovative wastewater treatment tech FEATURE: A look at the viable water technologies that GCC governments are investing in Q&A: Fady Juez, Managing Director for Metito, speaks exclusively about what needs to be done to raise awareness of the reality of the region’s water availability and the possibile benefits of Public Private Partnerships
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NEWS: Suez Environnement strengthens its Middle East presence
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NEWS: Waterleau wins US$65mn Qatari treatment facility contract
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Bluewater Bio highlights innovation in wastewater treatment technology at IWS 2015 Stand no: 4120 - UK Pavilion WATER AND wastewater treatment specialist Bluewater Bio is looking to educate visitors on innovative treatment technology within the industry while exhibiting at the International Water Summit (IWS) this week. One of the solutions it is showcasing during the show is HYBACS, a hybrid activated sludge process for nutrient removal, which allows existing sewage plants to treat double the load and achieve tighter standards. Xan Morgan, business development director and Middle East director of Bluewater Bio, said, “We're focussed on trying to upgrade sewage treatment plants across the Middle East, to improve quality of treatment and increase capacity of those plants in a cost-effective way.” He explained that utilising HYBACS means an operator can treat the same amount of wastewater with about 40 per cent of the footprint and required aeration capacity. “We can plug our units in front of an existing plant and increase its capacity by 100-150 per cent and we do so using less energy as well.” Looking to expand its business further in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, Bluewater Bio has already found business success in Bahrain, where it recently upgraded the Tubli Water Pollution Control Centre (WPCC), which led to its daily flow rate increasing from 200,000 cu/m to 300,000 cu/m.
Bluewater Bio business development director, Xan Morgan, and technical director, Dr. Jeremy Biddle, alongside Lila Thompson, international director of British Water Morgan concluded, “The Middle East is critical to our company. It's our priority and number one market as a business outside of the UK, so it's where we focus our attention and it's where we want to build our business.”
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IWS DAY 3 – PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE 09:30 – 09:35
IWS Chairperson’s Opening Introduction
Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) 09:35 – 09:50
One-to-One Interview Session: Understanding the Economics of Connectivity and Location to Enable Optimised Water Usage
09:50 – 10:20
Panel Discussion: Understanding How Management of Consumption Impacts on Demand Side Management and Allocation
10:20 – 10:50
Panel Discussion: Water Usage in Industrial Manufacturing: Policy Strategy and Local Partnerships to Enable Improved Water Resource Management
10:50 – 11:15
Networking Coffee Break
Improving Water Sustainability 11:15 – 11:30
Presentation: Lessons From the Past 500 Years: What the Water Industry Can Learn From the Past
11:30 – 12:00
Panel Discussion: Water Stewardship to Improve Local Water Sources and Enable Commercial Sustainability through a Value Driven Strategic Approach
12:00 – 12:30
Case Study Presentation: Waste for Energy and Water – SMART Resource Management for Sustainable Economy
12:30 – 13:00
Panel Discussion: Understanding the Impact of Water on Energy Supply, both for Power Generation and Oil Production Processes
13:00 – 13:30
Keynote Presentation: SMART Cities - Technology for Leak Detection and Understanding Non-Water Revenue
13:30 – 14:00
Panel Discussion: Rain Enhancement Science: Global Perspective on Research and Innovation in the Industry
14:00 – 15:30
Lunch / Tour of the Exhibition including Innovate@IWS
Parallel Sessions STREAM A - Water in Industry
STREAM B - Commercial Buildings
15:30 – 16:00
Presentation: Water Reuse for the Oil and Gas Industries – Overcoming a New Challenge
Panel Discussion: Supporting Improvement in Commercial Building Design and Sustainability Through Regulation, Guidelines and Awards
16:00 – 16:30
Case Study: Water Alternatives and Optimisation in District Cooling
Case Study: Hotel Sustainability Programme
16:30 – 17:00
Presentation: Using Sustainability to improve Oil and Gas Operations and Create In-country Value
Case Study: Changing Community Attitudes through Education – Overcoming Water Challenges in the Arab Region
17:00 – 17:30
Panel Discussion: Collaborative Industrial Water Best Practice
Case Study: Water Sustainability from PepsiCo India’s Perspective
17:30 – 17:35
IWS Chairperson’s Closing Comments
INNOVATE@IWS – DAY 3 14:30 – 15:15
Competition Round 3 – Water for Real-Estate: Finalist candidates will present their innovations to the panel in a “Dragon’s Den” competition to see which innovation is the most promising at IWS 2015. Participating Innovators: Ennesys, Atmospheric Water Solutions, THERMOWATT Energy and Building Ltd., UtilitySentry
Panel of Judges
Dr. Bruce Walker Ferguson, Professor of Practice – Engineering Systems and Management, Head of the Institute Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Masdar Institute Stella Thomas, Founder & Managing Director, Global Water Fund; Søren Hvilshøj, International Water Director, Ramboll
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Sustainable technology helping to feed GCC water demands Frost & Sullivan highlights some of the steps that the GCC is taking towards investing in viable technologies to tackle growing water demands. NSURING WATER security for sustenance and growth has been a constant challenge for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. With increasing population and growth in industrial and agricultural activities, pressure on existent water resources is further amplified. Focus of the water sector in the GCC is shifting towards sustainable practices, wastewater treatment and recycling. According to Frost & Sullivan, innovation is the need of the hour in this scenario, with the adoption of technologies like hybrid and solar desalination and re-use of produced water (PW) for non-potable purposes. Several utilities and water agencies are announcing noticeable projects, indicating the start of a technological turnaround. The GCC governments have allocated approximately US$100bn towards the implementation of better water technologies and energy-efficient desalination. Speaking about new technologies, Kshitij Nilkanth, programme manager, environmental and water markets, at Frost & Sullivan, said, “In recent years, the market has seen a slew of new concepts, including forward osmosis (Al-Khaluf, Oman), membrane distillation, tri-hybrid applications using Nano filtration (such as the pilot project
The GCC region is increasingly utilising produced water, which is a by-product of oil and gas extraction (Photo: erik aa)
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at the R&D Centre of the Saline Water Conservation Corporation) and low-temperature distillation. “These technologies all aim at energy-efficient desalination and lowering the energy footprint of plants. With increasing focus of the GCC to adopt environmentally-sustainable practices, these new technologies will have promising scope.” Among the GCC countries, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have taken the first steps in developing solar desalination projects. Saudi Arabia, through its King Abdullah Initiative, is expected to produce 30,000 cu/m per day of desalinated water in the first phase and will extend capacities to 300,000 cu/m per day by phase two. There are
Saudi Arabia is one of the first GCC nations to start developing solar desalination projects (Photo: Yasser Abusen)
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also plans to extend this initiative throughout the Kingdom in phase three. Another practice, which is slowly gaining momentum in the region, is the use of PW for nonpotable purposes. PW is a by-product of oil and gas extraction and needs special handling like any industrial waste. This ‘waste’, however, has the potential to be recycled and reused for industrial as well as irrigational purposes. The GCC, being the global hub for oil and gas extraction, generates about 1.85bn cu/m of PW annually with Oman being the highest net PW generator. An average of US$0.1-US$1 operational expenditure is incurred to treat one cubic metre of PW. According to Frost & Sullivan, the PW management market in the GCC earned revenues of US$288mn in 2012 and is estimated to reach US$482.6mn in 2017, growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 10.9 per cent. While the treatment equipment market is becoming competitive, the services market is relatively new in the GCC and will be a strong growth segment in the long run. At present, use of PW is limited in the region. Higher costs and lack of sophisticated technology are the major hindrances in use of this potential resource at a mass scale. Access to potable and non-potable water has been the cornerstone of economic growth in the region. The development, utilisation and success of water desalination and recycling technologies will provide a long-term elixir to the region’s water crisis. www.internationalwatersummit.com
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MAP
VENUE MAP
EVENT FLOORPLAN CAFE FRANCE PAVILION
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Q&A
Fady Juez Managing Director
Metito
What are the most viable solutions to ensure water security in arid regions?
A: Excess fresh water consumption has become a serious issue in the region, with a population increase of more than two per cent a year. According to analysis by Booz & Company on a per capita basis, Saudi Arabia and the UAE consume 91 per cent and 83 per cent more water than the global average. Qatar and Oman are also above the global average. We need to take active measures to ensure that this trend does not grow and that water remains at the top of our national security agendas. From a supply management perspective there are many initiatives that can be implemented both on the public and private levels. Many GCC residents have no reason to suspect that water is in short supply. Launching awareness campaigns, aimed at educating about the reality of water availability and how individuals can make a difference, is crucial if we want to change consumer habits. As for supply management, water re-use and recycling is the future if we are to invest in sustainable solutions. Treating and recycling water on site is much more cost-effective and viable than treating fresh water at the source and going through the logistics of bringing it elsewhere for consumption. There is a growing trend to embrace such solutions particularly for agriculture and industrial applications. Metito is a big advocate of this trend and has been taking serious steps to find new, intelligent solutions and technologies to support this move. Desalination provides most of the potable water used in the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, and will continue to play a huge role in the GCC's water development efforts. Desalina-
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tion, however, carries enormous economic and environmental costs and remains a relatively expensive way of producing potable water.
How far could efficient infrastructure and water sustainability support economic growth in the GCC?
A: Economic growth means a rapid increase in agricultural and industrial development and both need water in big amounts. Investments in efficient infrastructure and major water projects are therefore needed to encourage this growth. The GCC governments need to place more focus on augmenting supplies, such as developing groundwater, installing desalination plants, and expanding wastewater treatment and re-use to boost their economic growth. Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) can be a possible solution when funding is a disabling factor, as long as the business model is created with the interest of the community at the heart of the system.
What are the major challenges of the desalination sector, and what steps are governments taking to address these?
A: Demographically, the MENA region is enveloped in a period of fairly extensive changes, all of which will have major implications on water governance. Population growth in the region will increase water demand for irrigation, industrial development and domestic usage. This, in turn, will place further pressure on surrounding countries to ensure an ample flow of water downstream throughout the year. Desalination is often the ‘go to’ solution, which puts the industry under pressure to make the
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process more feasible and eco-friendly. Desalination remains a relatively costly solution and consumes a significant amount of energy, but despite the elaborate process, the end consumer remains unaware as the value of water remains subsidised. Water subsidies make sense in the short term, but cannot be a sustainable solution. Governments need to work on an equitable fees system and implement it through a phased approach due to the considerable gap between what people are paying now and what they would be paying if such subsidies were removed. Governments also need to invest in R&D in conjunction with the private sector to test new technologies that can make this process more commercial and attainable at different scales. Another important solution is to involve the private sector further to ensure optimisation. Again, private companies are hungry for PPPs and we see more and more that governments are becoming open to the idea of private investments.
In your opinion, how will water sustainability and desalination develop?
A: According to the Global Water Market Report 2014, the growing economy, combined with the lack of natural water resources, has meant that the UAE was one of the earliest and most enthusiastic adopters of desalination on a mass scale. As in all Gulf countries, desalination seems to be the only way forward, plus an increase in wastewater recycling initiatives. Regarding technology, solar-powered desalination seems to be a hot topic that has been discussed in many recent platforms. Renewable desalination is a growing trend especially in arid regions and, as such, there is huge potential in solar energy.
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Waterleau in winning consortium for Qatari wastewater treatment facility contract worth US$65mn Stand No: 3007 WATERLEAU, THE Belgium-based wastewater treatment specialist, has secured a fresh contract with Ashgal (Qatar’s Public Works Authority) for the Design-Build and Operate-Maintain works of the Al Shamal sewage treatment facilities, in a consortium led by Larsen and Toubro Limited (India). The contract includes the construction of a 7,500 cu/m per day state-of-the-art sewage treatment and re-use plant followed by operation and maintenance for 10 years. The project is worth QR238mn (US$65mn). The re-use plant will be designed and built over the next two years using advanced Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) technology and Ultra-Filtration (UF). Stijn Wyffels, Waterleau sales director, said, “The objective of the project is to replace the existing package treatment plant with the central sewage treatment works (STW) for the Al Shamal township and neighbouring areas with a design horizon of 2030 and beyond.” Wyffels added, “The works will not only comprise of design, construction, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of the facilities, but also long-term operations according to Ashgal’s high standards. Here, our experience as a water and wastewater technology provider and operator will come into play.”
The contract includes the operation and maintenance of the Qatari plant (Photo: Francisco Anzola) Al Shamal is a municipality situated in northern Qatar, whose population of about 8,000 is estimated to rise to 18,000 by 2030 as a result of the construction boom ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup. Elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa region, Waterleau has completed the biological wastewater treatment plant for the city of Fez in Morocco, which was inaugurated by His Royal Highness King Mohammed VI of Morocco in November 2014. The plant is Morocco’s largest sewage treatment plant, treating more than 155,000 cu/m of
sewage per day (1.2mn population equivalent). The activated sludge process design enables the treatment of a mix of household and industrial wastewater coming from the city of Fez’s olive oil industry and leather tanneries, allaying pollution of the River Sebou, Morocco’s largest water source. Waterleau is also responsible for the plant’s operation and maintenance for a 10 year period. In Morocco, Waterleau has previously built the municipal wastewater treatment plants of Marrakech, Bouskoura and Dakhla and is now building a drinking water plant in Khémisset.
Suez Environnement celebrates stronger business in the Middle East following further contract wins Stand No: 4420 SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT has announced that recent contract awards have strengthened its presence in the Middle East. The Government of Qatar’s Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has commissioned Suez Environnement through its subsidiary Degrémont, in consortium with its Japanese partner Marubeni Corporation, to expand the Doha West wastewater treatment and recycling plant. The total contract is worth EUR178mn (US$209mn), EUR94mn (US$111mn) of which is set to go to Suez Environnement. This expansion will increase the plant’s treatment capacity by an additional 105,000 m3/day to 280,000 m3/day. Over the term of the contract, the plant will be able to manage the
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wastewater of a population of 1,040,000 equivalent in Doha city. This project leads on from contracts, which were signed in 2005, for the design, construction and 10-year operation of a 135,000 m3/d plant, and in 2011 for its first expansion to 175,000 m3/d. Located 20 km west of Doha, the plant has been in operation since March 2010, and Suez Environnement will oversee the plant’s operation until 2020. Rémi Lantier, CEO of Degrémont, stated, “This new contract acknowledges our capacity to offer, deliver and then operate efficient facilities tailored to the local challenges of population growth and protection of resources.” Ashghal essentially chose the same technologies that have already been put in place and have proven effective: expansion of the second-
ary biological treatment, and expansion of the tertiary treatment which implements ultrafiltration membranes and the Smartrack™ system, thus allowing re-use of the treated water to irrigate green spaces and market gardens, and to replenish groundwater. In Qatar, Suez Environnement has also designed and built wastewater treatment facilities for Barwa City (50,000 inhabitants) and Lusail (250,000 inhabitants), which use treated water to re-vegetate desert parcels of land and, over time, to maintain green spaces throughout the artificial Pearl Island. The recent contract follows hot on the heels of two regional awards to Suez Environnement, for a desalination plant in Abu Dhabi and a water treatment plant in Oman, both through its water treatment subsidiary Degrémont.
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