Around 400 researchers, experts and students from the kingdom of Bahrain and the UK have attended the Water and Energy Sustainable Innovation and Industry (WESII) Conference and Exhibition which was held in the UoB on 22-23 April 2018 under the patronage of HE Dr. Abdulhussain bin Ali Mirza, Minister of Electricity and Water Affairs.
This Conference was organized in collaboration with the Sustainable Energy Unit, the British Council in Bahrain, and Loughborough University, The University of Oxford and Aston University in the United Kingdom. The University of Bahrain has three ongoing research projects on renewable energy and desalination with Loughborough University, the University of Oxford and Aston University.
The conference focus in current water and energy challenges in the kingdom of Bahrain and the region. It discusses water management and harvesting technologies as well as energy efficiency issues. Best practices in technologies and policies were discussed to tackle water-energy nexus.
