Kharafi National
Website: www.kharafinational.com

Kharafi National has expanded its strategic areas of business in construction and in the O&M of projects to build its presence in the privatized projects through build-operate-transfer (BOT), build-operate-own (BOO) and public-private partnership (PPP) approach. These approaches utilize the company’s strengths in the construction and operation of facilities and at the same time expand the company’s expertise and resources in financing and general business operations.
In these approaches to the development of infrastructure, Kharafi National, in conjunction with joint venture partners or as part of a consortium, is providing services including financing, design, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning

UtilEco
Website: www.utileco.com

UtilEco is a provider of advanced natural solutions for water management and environmental clean-up. With strong scientific and engineering foundations, UtilEco develops, commercializes and integrates strategic technologies for enhancement of existing systems and infrastructure to maximize asset value and performance; as well as delivery of efficient and economic modular systems for water purification, sewage treatment, industrial effluent treatment and remediation of contaminated land. UtilEco range of products and services include: Centralised and decentralised water and sewage infrastructure Enhancement of existing treatment plants, including odour control Odour-free sewage treatment with significantly reduced solid sludge output Low-cost recycle of treated sewage effluent for irrigation and washing Modular plants requiring minimal space, and gradual capital outlay Compliance with increasingly stringent regulations Wastewater treatment and recycle solutions for the petroleum, food processing and agricultural industries UtilEco also provides project financing and complete build-own-operate solutions to its clients.

Cabot Corporation
Website: www.cabot-corp.com

Cabot is a leading manufacturer of products based on fine particle technology. It's core product; Carbon Black, an intensely black powder is used as an indispensable agent for UV absorption, reinforcement, pigmentation and conductivity. Cabot specialises in high quality solutions for the plastics industry; water and gas piping, power and telecom cables, film, fibers and molded products. With 31 plants in 20 countries, Cabot operates the world’s only global carbon black business and is the leading player in the plastic industry. The plastics sector takes advantage of Cabot's state-of-the-art R&D facilities and the company's extensive worldwide network of sales, distribution and technical service representatives to benefit our customers.

Abu Dhabi pipe Factory
Website: www.adpf.ae

Established in 1981, the Abu Dhabi Pipe Factory is a leading manufacturer of Glass reinforced Plastic pipes and fittings in the Middle East region. The company has laid thousands of kilometers of pipelines for a variety of applications including petrochemical plants, sewerage lines, drainage lines, desalination plants, potable water supply, cooling water lines, and fire-fighting system. The company has also gained an enormous experience by successfully installing pre-insulated pipes for the various district cooling projects in U.A.E.

The company utilizes state-of-the-art technologies and systems to turn out world-class products that could withstand the extreme climatic conditions of the Gulf region. The methods employed for the manufacturing of GRP pipes are Dual Helical Filament Winding and Continuous Filament Winding Process. ADPF has also established its manufacturing base in Dubai, which is located in Dubai Investment Park, Jebel Ali.

As an acknowledgement to the standards maintained, ADPF has been certified by ISO 9001 for quality assurance in Design, Development, Production, Installation and Servicing. In addition to this, the company’s products are approved by many other International Organizations including Factory Mutual Research (FM) for usage in the fire-fighting systems, American Petroleum Institute (API – 15 LR & 15 HR) for usage in oil and gas industry and has WRc Approval for the usage in potable water systems.

Berlie-Falco Technologies Inc.

Berlie-Falco Technologies Inc. (BFT) engineers, builds and commissions biosolids dewatering and drying plants. Headquartered in Canada, near Montreal and the United States border, BFT operates a manufacturing facility, specialized in the fabrication of stainless steel and superior alloys process equipment certified under ASME and 3-A and conform to PED, API and HACCP codes. BFT is licensee of Swiss Combi Technology to manufacture and sell the patented closed-loop drying system. Systems include dewatering equipment such as belt filter presses, plate-&-frame filter presses and centrifuges, and sludge drying plants including rotary drum drying, heated filter press drying (Rollfit) and belt drying technologies.

Netherlands Gulf Region Water Platform (NGWP)
Phone: +31 70 3820028
Phone (int.): +31 654371939
Fax: +31 70 3043737
Email: ngwp@nwp.nl
Website: www.nwp.nl/ngwp

Two thousand years of living in a small country surrounded by sea, through which 3 major rivers fan out, has forced the Dutch to become skilled water managers. Our century long experience with water has resulted in a track record of resourceful solutions and advanced expertise, implemented in the Netherlands and abroad.

The rapid economic development of the GCC region has put high pressure on infrastructure, water supply, sewage collection and water treatment. Integrated State-of-the-Art solutions are needed to release this pressure. The Netherlands has the expertise to provide these solutions.

The Netherlands Gulf Region Water Platform (NGWP) clusters Dutch water sector activities in the GCC region and offers integrated solutions. Moreover, the NGWP builds on a long term knowledge transfer with the various GCC countries.

NGWP’s main pillars are:

• One-stop-shop
• Innovative and conventional solutions
• Integrated and decentralized concepts
• Knowledge transfer

NGWP consortia are currently working on several projects in the GCC region, focusing, amongst others, on innovative approaches for decentralized wastewater treatment / reuse, groundwater management, and water management for the agricultural sector. Apart from this collective approach, the partners in the NGWP have been running a number of individual projects in the GCC region for quite some years now.

P.O. Box 82327
2508 EH Den Haag
The Netherlands
Mr. R. (Roy) Agterbos

Schlumberger Water Services
Website: www.water.slb.com

Schlumberger Water Services explores for and develops water resources using advanced technologies, including wireline logging and directional drilling, to maximize well efficiency and minimize suboptimal wells. Schlumberger Water Services has developed innovative solutions for aquifer storage and recovery and alternative seawater intakes to enhance desalination and water treatment projects. These engineered solutions harness natural systems to deliver predictable performance. For more information, please visit: www.water.slb.com

Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (VWS)
Website: www.veoliawaterst.com

Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (VWS) is a subsidiary of Veolia Environment and a global leader in water and waste water treatment services. It is a leading EPC and Design & Build company, a specialized provider of technological solutions in Desalination, Municipal and Industrial Water and Waste Water Treatment.

With more than 50 years of experience in the Middle East, VWS combines expertise with unsurpassed innovation to offer technological excellence through the unique portfolios of differentiating technologies developed by the group’s R&D centres.

VWS is committed to its objective of providing the most advanced and affordable water and waste water treatment and solutions with uncompromising commitment to quality and delivery.

When it comes to water and waste water, everyone has a functional role to play. VWS understands this need and hence fulfils the role of meeting today’s challenging water and waste water treatment requirements. VWS continually extends and enriches its offer and services to guarantee expertise and competence on every level of the projects undertaken.

Veolia Water, the water division of Veolia Environnement, is the world leader in water andwastewater services. Specialized in outsourcing services for municipal authorities, as well as industrial and service companies, Veolia Water serves 139 million people worldwide. With 93,400 employees, its 2008 revenues amounted to €12.6 billion.

Veolia Environment is the world leader in environmental services. With more than 336,000 employees the company has operations all around the world and provides tailored solutions to meet the needs of municipal and industrial customers in four complementary segments: water management, waste management, energy management and freight and passenger transportation. Veolia Environnement recorded revenues of €36.2 billion in 2008.

European Desalination Society (EDS)
Website: www.edsoc.com

EDS is a Europe-wide organization for individual and corporate members including universities, companies, research institutes, government agencies and all concerned with and interested in desalination and membrane technologies for water in Europe and worldwide.

EDS unites Europeans interested in promoting desalination, water reuse and water technology. All processes are covered and the wide range of roles and activities involved in the desalination field are included: research, applications, consulting, contracting, operation and maintenance, manufacturing, marketing, economics, legislation. Members are welcome from other regions outside Europe.

Objectives
Promoting awareness of the true value of water and its augmentation by desalination Encouraging research, development, and appropriate use of desalination, desalination technology and water reuse

Exchanging, promoting, communicating and disseminating information Encouraging and promoting environmentally responsible and efficient use of the technology

Cooperating and communicating with national and international, government and private agencies in the promotion of the technologies and of European interests

The promotion of European business development in desalination and related technologies

The Water Channel
Website: www.thewaterchannel.tv

www.thewaterchannel.tv is a dedicated web-based video channel on water. It caters to a large audience, making a large amount of video material available in support of many initiatives. It actively promotes the videos contained on the site through social media, a newsletter, feeds and links to other initiatives – development, relief, education, awareness.

TheWaterChannel wants to bring an understanding of water issues to as many people as possible: students, specialists, everyone who wants to make a change. TheWaterChannel works with partners – organizations that bring substance to the water debate together with organizations that support it.

TheWaterChannel is an initiative of MetaMeta Communications, UNESCO-IHE, Cap-Net and Nymphaea. TheWaterChannel Team brings together several strands: the understanding of water issues and challenges, multimedia expertise and a passion for better water management and better water services for a growing and improving world.

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