Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) announced that DEWA-SAT 1, which it launched last month, is stable in its low earth orbit at 525 kilometres. It travels at some 7.5 kilometres per second and takes about 90 minutes to orbit the Earth. HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of DEWA, said that DEWA-SAT 1 […]

The Sustainable City, the Middle Easts first fully-operational sustainable community and sister development Sharjah Sustainable City have won four gold awards at the prestigious Gulf Real Estate Awards 2022. The Sustainable City, operating in Dubai since 2016,placed first in both the ‘Customer Happiness’ and ‘Customer Experience Initiative’ categories. The win comes as recognition for The […]

Better World Fund in partnership with ENGIE will collaborate with the Embassy of France in the United Arab Emirates and the French Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai for a series of special events during the month of March in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Oceans Fortnight.  On 25 and 26 March, there will be […]

Firstwater is thrilled to announce entering a new strategic partnership with The Blake Project. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, The Blake Project is a global strategic brand consultancy to clients like The Coca Cola Company, GE, IATA, Intel, Nestle, Unilever, and the National Basketball Association (NBA). It is also the publisher of Branding Strategy Insider—the […]

The problem with such macroeconomic factors is that they fail to engage the general population. Power generation, transportation, manufacturing and agriculture are examples of the greatest contributors to pollution and climate change, all of which are topics that governments and global institutions are grappling with. The danger is this can lead to a feeling of […]