The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment joins the global celebration of World Water Day, which is being held under the slogan, 'Water and Jobs.' This worldwide celebration intends to display the capability of the water sector to provide job opportunities, thereby helping out in the move to remove international poverty while likewise improving workplace conditions and promote an increase in productivity and enhanced effectiveness among all workers.

On this celebration, His Excellency Minister Dr. Thani Ahmed AlZeyoudi, Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, has expressed that the Ministry has placed great significance and concern to the water sector, emphasizing the considerable role it plays in the roadway towards achieving sustainable development-- under the vision of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

"The geographical and climactic conditions of the nation reveal an absence of natural water sources, lack of rain and progressively hot temperature levels-- resulting in high evaporation activity. These have ended up being challenges in the relocate to offer the nation with a steady supply of water. As an option, the UAE has adopted seawater desalination and the utilization of processed water as part of a water resources diversification technique," said Minister AlZeyoudi.

These 2 alternatives is anticipated to offer a stable supply of pure water for usage by all sectors. Nevertheless, the increasing expenses of these processes and its impact on the environment has led UAE's smart management to look into other treatments, which makes usage of more modern innovations and are based upon optimal practices, like making use of renewable energy as seen in the launch of the water desalination centers in Al Ghantoot, Abu Dhabi last year.

Stakeholders in the UAE have adopted initiatives intended to preserving and more establishing water resources-- reducing the impact of a water footprint across all sectors and abiding by an integrated system of management for water resources. These initiatives also consist of the creation of key legislation and strengthened coordination amongst concerned stakeholders, which also involves the transfer to develop the farming sector, in order to create a balance between water and food security. This involves key activities like expanding sophisticated watering systems use, less water usage for agriculture and crops patterns, digging wells, expanding and managing regional dams according to best practices and keeping a strategic storage of fresh water, develop mandatory national requirements for water equipment and utilization of sophisticated technologies to decrease the usage in the metropolitan sector and use affordable techniques for water costing.

The Ministry continues to be highly positive that favorable results from these undertakings will be felt in the next few years, which will bring us closer to the accomplishment of the set objectives and objectives of UAE Vision 2021 and the nation's sustainable advancement goals for 2030.

The UAE has actually embraced essential actions as part of the nation commitment of developing sustainable and ingenious options, that includes the allocation of a part of aid to establish water and sewage tasks in developing nations to guarantee task chances in this sector; the launch of the UAE Water Aid Foundation, which just recently introduced the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award to motivate research and innovative solutions to resolve water scarcity utilizing solar power; and the relocate to arrange the World Water Summit throughout Abu Dhabi Sustainable Week-- an occasion that saw the formation of a Global Alliance for Clean Water.

H.E. AlZeyoudi highlighted the value of the project to prevent the excessive use of water in the UAE, which has ended up being a worrying concern as recent reports have actually pegged an everyday usage of 360 liter per person, a figure that is more than the worldwide rate of 200 liter per person. The Minister also stressed on the significance of taking duty and joining in the move to enhance awareness via campaigns and related activities throughout the country. In closing, he priced estimate H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, who specified that water in the UAE today is more vital than fuel-- an accurate description of the genuine value of water in the nation today.