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Europe's winter gas bill comes due: prices at a four-year high, storage at a record low — and €7.9bn still paid for Russian gas

Europe's benchmark gas price this week reached its highest level since December 2022, before a one-day Norwegian supply scare unwound. Underground storage is at its lowest for the time of year since records began in 2011, the EU has paid €7.88bn for Russian Arctic LNG in nine months this year, and the EU ban on the remaining long-term-contract trade arrives on 1 January. The numbers, the region's voices, and what moves next.

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A UAE government report projects data-centre water use roughly doubling to 9.32 trillion litres by 2030, with the water attributed to AI workloads roughly quadrupling, and finds that electricity generation accounts for about half of water use across the data-centre value chain. It calls on the UN Water Conference in Abu Dhabi in December to advance a global declaration.

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    Dubai's Hassyan 180 MIGD seawater reverse osmosis independent water project has taken gold in the Exceptional Project Execution and Delivery category at the IWA Project Innovation Awards 2026.

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  1. Scottish Water's Winchburgh Wastewater Treatment Works wins bronze at IWA Project Innovation Awards 2026

    The £35 million Nereda-based plant took bronze in the Performance Improvement and Operational Solutions category at the IWA Project Innovation Awards ceremony in Glasgow.

  2. Glasgow World Water Congress opens: Global Water Award to Clarissa Brocklehurst, call for action

    The 2026 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition opened in Glasgow on 4 October. Clarissa Brocklehurst received the IWA Global Water Award and Professor Katherine Richardson urged delegates to turn connections into action.

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    EMASESA's cyber-physical water cycle project for Seville took gold in Smart Systems and the Digital Water Economy at the IWA Project Innovation Awards 2026, presented during the World Water Congress in Glasgow.

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