The Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region is one of the driest areas on earth, where water resource availability is as acutely scarce. Yet this area is one of the fastest growing regions on earth, both in population and standard of living, leading to severe imbalance between water demand and availability.

AUSTIN, Texas – NI, the provider of platform-based systems that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, announced today a technology collaboration with Innovari to help utility companies around the world improve system utilization, manage distributed energy resources and foster relationships between customers, local communities and regulators.

RYE BROOK, N.Y. – Xylem, a leading global water technology company, today announced that Colin Sabol has been named Xylem senior vice president and president of Sensus & Analytics, effective October 1. Mr. Sabol succeeds Randy Bays, who will move into an advisory role with a focus on Xylem’s global manufacturing operations. Both will report to Xylem president and CEO, Patrick Decker.

Greenwood, IN — Endress+Hauser announces AdEdge Water Technologies has joined its OEM Business Partner Program. The two companies will collaborate together to ensure technology alignment, improve operating efficiencies and explore new opportunities to trim cost, mitigate risk and develop new service models that ultimately deliver more value for our mutual end user customers.

HydroTex, a subsidiary of Hydro, Inc., announces the move of its Deer Park operation to a new 33,000 square foot building in La Porte, TX. The new service center will offer expanded capacity for analysis, engineering, rebuilding and repair services for pump systems and rotating equipment as well as climate controlled storage of pumps and parts.