#14-Desalination - How to solve water scarcity in the Middle East, with Erwan Rouxel

Water scarcity is a growing global crisis, with 2.2 billion people lacking access to safely managed drinking water. The Middle East is among the most water-stressed regions, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE, making desalination a critical solution. In this episode of Let’s Turn The Tide, Erwan Rouxel, CEO of Veolia Oman, discusses how desalination addresses this issue.

In this episode, you’ll gain insights on:

• Why water scarcity is a critical issue in the Middle East and why desalination is one of the solutions.
• The desalination process and its key steps.
• Veolia's impactful desalination projects in the region.
• Advantages and challenges of desalination technology.
• Efforts to minimize the environmental impact of desalination.
• Future innovations shaping desalination technology in water-stressed regions like the MENA region.

Want to see the faces behind the voices? You can watch this episode on YouTube.

About the host- Nadine Zidani:

Nadine is a sustainability expert, impact entrepreneur, and founder of MENA Impact, the first platform for sustainability resources in the MENA region. Based in the UAE, she is committed to advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and driving systemic change through her work and public speaking.

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About Veolia:

Veolia's ambition is to become the benchmark company for ecological transformation. Present on five continents with nearly 218,000 employees, the Group designs and deploys useful and concrete solutions for water, waste and energy management that help to radically change the game. Through its three complementary activities, Veolia contributes to developing access to resources, preserving available resources and renewing them.

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