{"id":3415,"date":"2022-09-13T14:35:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T14:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/acwa-power-eyes-water-desalination-projects-in-africa-ceo\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T14:35:30","slug":"acwa-power-eyes-water-desalination-projects-in-africa-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=3415","title":{"rendered":"ACWA Power eyes water desalination projects in Africa: CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">Tue, 2022-09-13 17:32<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\n\tRIYADH: ACWA Power plans to expand its water desalination plants in the Middle East and Africa within the next few years, especially in Egypt and Morocco, the CEO said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpeaking to Arab News at the Future of Desalination Conference in Riyadh, Paddy Padmanathan, ACWA Power\u2019s CEO, said that the developer sees Egypt as the next domain to participate in desalination.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe see opportunities emerging in Morocco and South Africa in the not too distant future,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above\">\n<div class=\"field-label\">Main category:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">Business &amp; Economy<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2161746\/business-economy\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tue, 2022-09-13 17:32 RIYADH: ACWA Power plans to expand its water desalination plants in the Middle&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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