Dewa bags smart project of the year 2024 award

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) bagged the smart water project of the year in 2024 award at the Global Water Awards, according to a Dubai Media Office statement. The award is for Dewa’s fully automated smart water meter system — dubbed the Hydro Insight system — which monitors over 1 mn smart meters using AI and data science technologies. The system has effectively reduced meter anomaly detection time to 1 hour from 30 days, saving the emirate some 214 mn gallons of water.

Leaders at 54 UAE-based companies were named among Forbes’ The Middle East’s Top 100 Travel & Tourism Leaders 2024. Those among the top 10:

• Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, CEO of Emirates Airline & Group (1)
• Helal Saeed Almarri, director general of the Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism (3)
• Saleh Mohamed Al Geziry, director general for tourism at the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism (5)
• Hesham Al Qassim, CEO of Wasl (7)
• Humaid Matar Al Dhaheri, CEO of Adnec Group (8)
• Mohamed Abdalla Al Zaabi, CEO of Miral (10)

DP World picked up two sustainability awards at the 2024 SEAL Business Sustainability Awards, according to a Dubai Media Office statement. The first award — the Environmental Initiative Award — is for the logistics company’s reuse of waste material for energy in its Santos, Brazil division, with DP World Santos achieving the feat of reusing 100% of waste generated at the port. The second award — SEAL Sustainable Innovation Award — is for DP World’s joint venture with SMS group — Boxbay — an automated high-bay storage container system that uses solar power and power regeneration during container lowering. The system reduced yard space by 60% and cut out unproductive reshuffling moves.