“Mohammed bin Rashid Global Water Award” stimulates solving the water crisis with artificial intelligence

The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award encourages investment in the latest technologies to accelerate the innovation of sustainable solutions to the global water crisis, and improve the efficiency of projects in terms of cost and scalability, allowing them to be applied anywhere in the world. The fifth session of the award strengthened the standard of “creativity and innovation” by employing the latest technologies, including artificial intelligence, to design models that support the optimal use of resources and align algorithms with societal and environmental goals.

Those in charge of the award point out that a large portion of applications for participation are submitted by companies, research centers, institutions, and innovators who have succeeded in investing in the promising potential of artificial intelligence to create specialized technologies in water production, desalination, purification, or distillation.

Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Emirates Suqia Foundation, said that the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Water Award, supervised by the Emirates Suqia Foundation, with a total of $1 million in prizes, supports building a strong base in the field of research, development, innovation and conducting careful analysis and studies to provide low-cost, high-impact resources and solutions for those in dire need of water. The award is an integrated global platform for harnessing innovation and advanced technologies in order to ensure a brighter and more sustainable future for all of humanity.

Artificial intelligence investment, within the criteria of the award, aims to stimulate the innovation of sustainable solutions to the water scarcity crisis by creating new and innovative methodologies, applications and systems related to drinking water, improving efficiency, increasing renewable energy storage capacity and reducing unit operational costs. The employment of artificial intelligence technologies and machine learning algorithms in process automation, proactive monitoring, demand forecasting, material and topology discovery, or for other operational purposes will be evaluated positively. The award aims to enable and disseminate innovations in desalination and water purification using energy sources. Renewable energy, which includes: solar energy, wind energy, biomass energy, hydropower, osmotic energy, and geothermal energy.

The award includes four main categories: “Innovative Projects Award,” “Innovation Award in Research and Development,” “Individual Innovations Award,” and “Innovative Crisis Solutions Award.”

Applications for the fifth cycle of the award continue until next April 30, via the website www.mbrwateraward.ae.