World Water Day .. UAE is at the forefront of global efforts to enhance water security

Abu Dhabi, March 22/ WAM/ The UAE continues to consolidate its pioneering position in the field of water sustainability, through qualitative strategies and initiatives that contribute to enhancing water security, achieving environmental sustainability, and supporting global efforts in facing the challenges of water scarcity.

On the International Water Day, which falls on March 22 of each year, the UAE practices confirm its continuous commitment to developing innovative solutions in water resources management, through integrated policies and strategies that depend on the latest technologies, enhance consumption efficiency, and support scientific research, to ensure the sustainability of this vital resource for future generations.
The integrated approach that the state adopts reflects its ability to achieve economic development and environmental sustainability, which made it a global model in effective water management.
Dr. Dalal Matar Al Shamsi, Director of the National Water and Energy Center at the Emirates University, said that the UAE puts water security at the top of its priorities, and has adopted strategies that government and private agencies and members of society are committed to achieving this goal, including directing universities and research centers towards mobilizing its research outputs in a way that helps in maintaining the sustainability of water resources.

Al -Shamsi said in a statement to the Emirates News Agency “WAM”, that the sustainability of water resources and water security is not just a goal that can be reached, but rather a continuous and flexible pursuit that the ways to achieve it changed by changing the surrounding conditions from rainfall rates, and the development of energy methods used to obtain unconventional water resources.
She added that the UAE allocates a huge budget to support scientific research in universities and research centers in the field of water security and related to it, which made the Emirates University, for example, classified among the first 150 universities in the field of water resources research according to the Shanghai universities classification for 2024.

Based on its commitment to strengthening water security, the UAE launched in 2017 represented by the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure the Water Security Strategy for the UAE 2036 aimed at reducing the total demand for water resources by 21%, increasing the water productivity index to 110 dollars per cubic meter, reducing the water scarcity index by 3 degrees, increasing the proportion of processing of treated water to 95%, and providing a period of storage for a period of time storage for cases Regular in the water system.

During its participation in the activities of “COP28”, the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure and the Environmental Authority – Abu Dhabi announced the launch of the first hydrological map of the Emirates, a comprehensive national plan aimed at achieving sustainability in the use of water and preserving this vital resource.
The Ministry launched the Integrated Management Initiative for dams and water installations, and the Future of Water in the infrastructure assets, with the aim of helping to solve the challenges of water management facing the infrastructure asset management.
In turn, Al -Ittihad Water and Electricity Company continues to support the achievement of water security in the Emirates through projects such as a purity of seawater desalination plant with the reverse osmosis technology with a capacity of 150 million gallons per day, and the graduate center for storing and distributing water with a capacity of 180 million gallons.
In the same context, the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority continues to enhance water sustainability through water desalination projects with reverse osmosis technology, which requires less energy, targeting the production of 100% of desalinated water using clean energy by 2030.
The authority’s production capacity is 495 million gallons per day of desalinated water, and will reach 735 million by 2030.
Within the framework of the global efforts of the Emirates, the “Mohammed bin Zayed Water Initiative” contributes to facing the increasing challenge of water scarcity worldwide, as it launched in March 2024 the “X Praires to reduce water scarcity” in partnership with the “X Praire”, which aims to enhance access to clean water on a large scale by providing effective and sustainable solutions and developing it to enhance the efficiency and cost of water desalination techniques.
The Mohammed bin Zayed Water and World Bank initiative last February signed a memorandum of understanding to unify efforts to accelerate innovation and investment to address the crisis of global water scarcity and enhance water security around the world.
In the same context, the “Saqiya Emirates” Foundation works mainly in researching and developing solutions to the problems of water scarcity and the provision of drinking water to help societies that suffer from water shortages and pollution, and the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Award for Water supervised by the “Saqiya Emirates Foundation” continues to honor institutions, research centers and innovators from around the world, who develop innovative technologies and models to produce, sweeten and purify water using energy Renewed.

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