Environment
UAE Water Aid Foundation participates in WFES 2016 as well as promotes $1 million global water prize
The UAE Water Aid Foundation is taking part in the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2016, kept in Abu Dhabi under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, from 18-21 January 2016. The Foundation exists its tasks and initiatives at the Dubai Electricity as well as Water Authority (DEWA) stand in Hall 6, number 5120 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC). The UAE Water Aid Foundation's engagement at WFES supports its goal to supply potable water to the needy around the world, under the umbrella of the Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation.
"The UAE Water Aid Foundation plays a leading role in attaining one the purposes of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation, to deal with poverty and disease. This is accomplished by discovering permanent options to water shortage, which is a key difficulty that will encounter the world in the future. The UAE Water Aid Foundation sustains international efforts to improve the living problems of disaster-stricken as well as bad areas, and also attain the lasting advancement of all humankind. The Foundation additionally supports international initiatives to offer clean consuming water, as well as battle water-related conditions that intimidate lives," stated HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the UAE Water Aid Foundation.
"At the World Future Energy Summit 2016, the UAE Water Aid Foundation is revealing its projects in water desalination making use of clean energy to supply tidy water options. It additionally highlights its prominent humanitarian tasks to supply accessibility to fresh consuming water for 5 million people around the world. The Foundation is additionally promoting its one million-dollar honor, released by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE as well as Ruler of Dubai, to find long-term options to water lacks around the globe by using solar energy for water purification and desalination," included Al Tayer.
"At WFES, the UAE Water Aid Foundation is highlighting its crucial projects as well as efforts to supply clean water to the needy, its researches and also research on creating water utilizing solar energy, and also its payments to funding and also sustaining water-technology jobs to deal with dry spell. The Foundation also carried display a design of its mobile water desalination terminal that desalinates, in addition to an example of its solar-powered mobile station that makes use of photovoltaic or pv solar panels to desalinate water by reverse osmosis (RO) innovation, in cooperation with DEWA. It likewise is revealing its research and development tasks such as the photovoltaic panel powered PVRO device at the Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park with a manufacturing capacity of 50 cubic meters a day, and the capacity to store power for 7 hrs. The task is being implemented in cooperation with DEWA," stated Mohammed Abdulkareem Al Shamsi, Acting Executive Director of the UAE Water Aid Foundation.
The UAE Water Aid Foundation works to give safe and clean water to the needy, the disadvantaged, as well as those that remain in distress all over the world. It adds to discovering sustainable and also irreversible options to water scarcity all over the world. This is done using the latest technologies, desalinating water making use of solar power, and supplying new and cutting-edge technical remedies for areas that struggle with deficiency as well as contamination of consuming water. The Foundation will conduct research studies as well as research to deal with water scarcity, especially making use of solar power, to assist it attain its goals. This is performed in control as well as partnership with instructional, scholastic, and also global organisations. These efforts consist of 10 tasks in cooperation with the Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum Charity as well as Humanitarian Establishment to give potable water in Somalia, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Ghana, Yemen, as well as Benin. Around 60,000 people take advantage of these tasks. The Foundation additionally supplies alleviation aid to Yemen in cooperation with the Ministry of Development and International Cooperation.
WFES 2016, organized by Masdar as part of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, is a significant annual global occasion, where the most fantastic minds satisfy to trade concepts and explore the most recent difficulties and also updates associated with the future of energy. The UAE Water Aid Foundation is also joining the Global Water Summit 2016, which is arranged to coincide with Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. It highlights the importance of water sustainability in the region, and focuses on discovering expanding investment chances for ingenious clean power technologies in the center East and North Africa.