The Middle East and Africa region, with its high population growth rates and scarce natural water supplies, offers huge potential to water and wastewater treatment companies.

As several regional countries approach dangerous water shortages and contamination, large water projects are being commissioned, says Gulf Water Treatment Company (GWTC) managing director Sinan Al Ani.
GWTC is a UAE-based company specialising in custom design, manufacturing and contracting water purification treatment, wastewater treatment and membrane separation systems.
Al Ani says the company supplies equipment and products spanning reverse osmosis, ion exchange, ultra-filtration, pressure vessels for multimedia filters, clarifier scrapers, mechanical screens, de-gritting devices, de-watering devices (rotary drums, filter presses and belt presses), dissolved air floatation system, oil coalesces and PLC controllers for such equipment.
“Our unique engineered and manufactured systems are carefully designed for simplicity of erection and operations and maintenance and to achieve the highest level of operational efficiency, reliability and high-quality water output,” he continues.
Al Ani says the capacity of GWTC’s custom-designed products range from 5.5 cu m per day up to hundreds of thousands of cu m per day. Typical sectors served are industrial, civil, farms, home, chemical, petrochemical, oil field, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, auto parts, power, food, beverages and municipal.
“We can provide reverse osmosis desalination plants for drinking and industrial water (using sea water, brackish and high-brackish water as feed) with complete facilities, such as PLC and MCC control systems,” he continues. “The recovery percentage for such plants for brackish and high-brackish water and for seawater is 30 per cent to 35 per cent using the latest membrane technology.”
Al Ani says GWTC’s team of engineers and technicians are well trained to install, operate and maintain the company’s water treatment plants.
Operating from the UAE for more than 15 years, GWTC has offices in Sharjah and Abu Dhabi and its products are sold across the Gulf, as well as in Africa, Iran and Russia.
Al Ani says the company’s key advantage is the selection of the highest quality of major key components available composing the R/O system with the best of local equipment and services to develop systems to solve problems at competitive prices.
“We are aware of the fact that many system components may either be sourced or fabricated locally in the country where the system is going to be installed,” he observes. “GWT is flexible in this regard and can work with clients for sourcing of certain components at the level of quality quoted to the customer. This policy helps cut costs without sacrificing the system quality and performance.”