The International Water Summit (IWS) is a global platform for promoting water sustainability in arid regions by bringing together world leaders, field experts, academics and business innovators to accelerate the development of new sustainable strategies and technologies.
IWS is part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week and runs in parallel with World Future Energy Summit. The exhibition is designed to enable attendees to meet with market-leading companies, along with influential industry and government figures.
Videos from International Water Summit 2017 are available covering the following topics:
- Welcome and opening remarks
- Case Study UAE’s clean energy desalination programme
- Shaping the UAE’s water strategy
- Saudi Arabia desalination industry regulation
- Reducing CO2 emissions from water desalination
- Renewable energy desalination
- Projects Market Overview
- Global Clean Energy Water Desalination Alliance Signatories
- GCC water and wastewater strategies Kuwait
- Driving efficiency in the used water market
- GCC and Egypt water and wastewater strategies
- Decoupling electricity and water
- A positive water balance
- Designing liveable cities from a water perspective
- Opportunities in small scale solar desalination
- Making water usage in industry, manufacturing and oil & gas more efficient
- Overcoming water scarcity
- Roundtable Session IWS
- Storm water management