As the dust settles on WETEX and the World Green Economy Summit, the question is what happens to the handshakes. Regulation is usually cast as the brake. In the UAE’s water sector, in the right environment, it is the accelerator.
30 Sept 2026
The Second Wheat Decision
Saudi Arabia once gave up a harvest it could grow in order to keep its water. The next decision of that kind will not be taken in a field. It will be taken on the factory floor, and once the Kingdom’s water rules begin allocating footprints to industrial products, they may reach a food manufacturer’s waste bin before any food waste rule does.
29 Sept 2026
The Licence You Can Still Write
In the space of a week, the COP31 presidency asked AI companies to disclose their energy use and Brussels adopted a label for data centres. In market after market, the public turned first and the rules followed as a concession. The Gulf still has that order the other way round, and it will not have it for long.
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