HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the UAE Water Aid Foundation has today announced information of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award, which was released by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and deserves one million dollars. The information were gone over in an interview at the Armani hotel in Dubai. The Award is presented by The UAE Water Aid Foundation, under the umbrella of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, to find sustainable solutions to the issue of water scarcity, using solar energy to cleanse and desalinate water.

In June 2014, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum introduced the UAE Water Aid effort to offer clean water to roughly 5 million people worldwide. Suqia, UAE Water Aid's project, has actually raised AED180 million to supply clean drinking water to 7 million people around the world.

Journalism conference was gone to by HE Ahmed Buti Al Muhairbi, Secretary General of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, HE Brigadier Ahmed Khalfan Al Mansoori, Secretary General of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for World Peace,, HE Dr Arif Sultan Al Hammadi Executive Vice President of Khalifa University, Nasser Lootah, Executive Vice President of Generation at DEWA, Waleed Ali Salman, Executive Vice President of Strategy & Business Development at DEWA, and Mohammed Abdulkareem Al Shamsi, Acting Executive Director of UAE Water Aid.

"I want to reveal information of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award. The award was launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and is supervised by the UAE Water Aid Foundation, also called Suqia, under the umbrella of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, one of the largest development and community foundations in the Middle East. It consolidates the work of 28 organisations and targets over 130 million individuals over the years to coming. The primary goals of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives include four primary sectors: Fighting Poverty, Dissemination of Knowledge, Community Empowerment, and Innovation for the Future, Suqia works to supply drinking water to people in Somalia, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Ghana, and Benin assist 60,000 individuals in 10 various tasks. Suqia provides relief help to Yemen in cooperation with the Ministry of Development and International Cooperation, assisting 1,087,500 individuals, according to the Ministry. In the UAE, a number of projects were introduced to disperse water to Ramadan camping tents and mosques in partnership with nine regional associations and charities in the UAE. 100,000 people benefited from this throughout the holy month of Ramadan," stated Al Tayer.

"His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum launched the worldwide award, worth one million dollars, to find sustainable solutions to address worldwide water lacks, and satisfy our country's passion to construct a knowledge-based economy, with a focus on innovation, research, development, and development. The UAE Water Aid Foundation motivates leading organisations, research centres, and pioneers from around the globe, to contend to find sustainable and innovative solutions to water scarcities utilizing solar energy. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has observed that, "Water is the spirit of life and supplying it for the needy methods restoring millions of people. The UAE Water Aid Foundation will not separate between a single person and another, so are all of our humanitarian works; such is the UAE humanitarian objective that lies in helping the affected, the needy and disadvantaged people all over the world with no distinction,"" included Al Tayer.

These include encouraging ingenious solutions to the challenge of water deficiency. This Award will help to attain this objective by driving the search for sustainable solutions to attend to water deficiency around the world.

Al Tayer kept in mind that the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award comprises three classifications. The award is provided to innovative projects and organisations that discover sustainable options to the issue of water scarcity, making use of solar energy to cleanse and desalinate water. The UAE Water Aid Foundation is working to supply drinkable water to the needy, the disadvantaged, and those who are in distress around the world, contributes to discovering long-term solutions to water scarcities around the world making use of modern technologies, and supplies brand-new and ingenious options for societies that suffer from water shortages, shortage, and contamination.

"His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's launch of UAE Water Aid Foundation highlights the commitment by the UAE management to support worldwide humanitarian efforts. In the brief time considering that its launch, the UAE Water Aid Foundation has ended up being one of the most distinguished organisations for offering help to the needy and distressed around the world. The UAE will constantly be a hub for doing great deeds and the hearts of its individuals will always be open to extend their helping hands for everyone," concluded Al Tayer.

Mohammed Abdul Kareem Al Shamsi, Acting Executive Director of the UAE Water Aid Foundation kept in mind that the Innovative Projects classification is for organisations that are successful in innovating recognized tasks to produce, desalinate, or cleanse water making use of solar power. The Large Projects classification is for tasks by for-profit or non-profit companies, and government or non-government organisations.

Candidates for the Innovative Research and Development classification must send innovative technologies or a prototypes for using solar energy to produce, desalinate, cleanse, or successfully manage water resources. This has couple of sub-categories: The National Institutions category is for academic or non-profit institutions and research centres in the UAE. The International Institutions classification is for instructional or non-profit institutions and research study centres outside the UAE.

Applicants for the Innovative Youth Award need to provide innovative technological solutions to address water shortage specifically using solar energy to produce safe drinking water. The UAE Water Aid Foundation will begin accepting applications on 22 March 2016, corresponding with World Water Day.