Kharafi National has been recognized as the Most Impressive Water Company in the Middle East, at the prestigious Global Water wards organized by Global Water Intelligence.

Global Water Intelligence is a monthly magazine that provides in-depth analysis of the international water industry and, each year, organises the Global Water Awards. The purpose of the awards is to recognise excellence in the global water industry – the KN Achieves International Recognition people, companies, projects, technologies and contracts that made the most significant contributions to the industry during the
previous year.

The Global Water Awards are organised into several categories. A panel of industry experts reduces nominations to a shortlist of four for
each category. The winners are then voted for by subscribers to Global Water Intelligence and Water Desalination Report, as well as members of the International Desalination

Association and the International Private Water Association. This selection process ensures that the awards represent what the water industry itself sees as the most important achievements of the past year. Though Kharafi National had been short-listed for the award of Water Company of the Year – which is bestowed on the enterprise that has made the most significant contribution to the development of the international water sector during the previous year – these laurels were won by American Water, the largest investorowned water and wastewater utility company in the USA and a formidable competitor. The two other short-listed candidates were the infrastructure business division of Mitsui & Co and Suez Environnement, a global water and waste specialist listed on the Euronext stock exchange.

However, KN was recognized as the Most Impressive Water Company in the Middle East. According to Global Water Intelligence, this recognition was based on the company’s participation in the ADWEA project in Abu Dhabi, its bid to increase daily throughput at Sulaibiya WWT&R plant in Kuwait to 600,000 cubic metres per day, its long-term commitment to regional water reclamation projects, and the skills of its formidable team in infrastructure project development.

The awards were announced at the Global Water Awards dinner at the Zurich Marriott Hotel in Switzerland on the 27th April, 2009. More than 350 leaders from the international water and finance sectors attended the event at which former US vice-president Al
Gore, the internationally renowned political environmentalist, made the keynote speech.

KN was represented at the awards by Chief Development Officer Ark W Pang and Senior Project Developer Latif Amara. KN also had an exhibit at the Zurich Marriott which attracted a lot of interest and enquires from companies wishing to join with KN in future projects. Being recognized as the Most Impressive Water Company in the Middle East was a magnificent achievement for KN – especially in competition with major international water companies such as American Water, Mitsui and Suez – and anchors Kharafi National firmly in the market for international water projects.