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Riyadh: In a bid to prevent overgrazing, the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture has given foreigners who have camels and other livestock on Saudi land until the end of August to remove the animals. In a statement, the ministry said the aim is to preserve the Kingdom’s natural resources, as part of the Saudi Green Initiative. The owners should register on the Naama
March 10, 2021 at 2:33 pm On the sidelines of the 155th session of the Arab League meeting last week, Egypt chaired a meeting of the Arab Ministerial Committee. The league's Secretary-General, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, discussed Turkey's "illegitimate interference in the affairs of Arab countries" with envoys from Egypt, Bahrain, the UAE, and Iraq. Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told the meeting that Cairo "will not stand motionless in face of the Turkish greed that is especially being shown in northern Iraq, Libya, and Syria." The Assistant Secretary of the Arab League, Hossam Zaki, alleg...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company (NWC) this month signed a $5.36 million two-year contract with a French utilities company to reduce the amount of water lost during the Kingdom’s water production process, known as non-revenue water in the industry. This is a positive step forward, as a report released late last year by global consultancy firm Oliver Wyman found that while water usage is rising, supply is diminishing. The study estimated that 25 percent of the world’s population lives in areas that suffer extremely high water stress, and by 2050 that portion of the populatio...