The accessibility of water in Arab nations is continuously diminishing due to the fast rise in population. The UAE has paid close focus to this growing problem, as well as ares worked vigilantly to take all the required steps to rationalize our water use for both watering as well as drinking objectives. The UAE's recurring initiatives to give millions around the globe with tidy water falls in line with the wise words of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and also Ruler of Dubai, who claimed, "Water in our land is a terrific true blessing, and also our ancestors recognized its priceless value since they were denied of it.

In June 2014, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum launched the UAE Water Aid campaign to give tidy water to roughly 5 million people worldwide. Suqia, the UAE Water Aid campaign, was introduced together with the Emirates Red Crescent Authority and has increased AED 180 million in 18 days to supply clean consuming water to 7 million people throughout the globe. On 3 February 2015, HH Sheikh Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum provided Law Number 3 of 2015, developing the UAE Water Aid Foundation as a non-profit organization. The foundation belongs to Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA).

The structure aims to advertise the UAE's position worldwide as well as take part in campaigns as well as altruistic aid to boost the living problems of the poor and also afflicted neighborhoods in different countries, as well as assistance accomplish lasting growth for all the human race by supporting global communities and supplying clean water remedies, performing research and also studies to sustain the production of clean water using solar power, creating global collaborations, as well as accomplishing the significant objective of providing tidy consuming water. The Suqia campaign is unique due to the fact that it concentrates on research and development, and uses solar energy to desalinate sea water in cooperation with colleges and also other research and development centers. The campaign has actually been alloted USD 1 million towards the success of the project.

Based on the mandate by HH Sheikh Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum, the board of trustees of the UAE Water Aid Foundation was formed. Mohammed Abdulkareem Al Shamsi was assigned as Acting Executive Director of the UAE Water Aid Foundation.

HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer ares noted that the UAE Water Aid Foundation provides tidy water to the needy, performs research studies and also research study to assist the treatment of water utilizing solar energy, contributes to funding and sustaining water-technology jobs to fight drought, as well as oversees a million-dollar yearly give for study on the growth of brand-new innovations as well as systems for dealing with water using solar energy.

Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives.
In October 2015, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President as well as Prime Minister of the UAE and also Ruler of Dubai, released one of the largest advancement as well as neighborhood foundations in the center East area-- the "Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives." The brand-new foundation settles the work of 28 organizations concentrating on combating poverty and disease; spreading expertise and also society; encouraging the community; and also driving development. All combined, the structure's campaigns will certainly carry out 1,400 human development programs in 116 countries around the world.

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives will certainly target 130 million individuals over the years to coming, focusing its programmes on the Arab world. It will certainly also introduce the largest and also most thorough development programme in region, focusing on human development in an integrated manner beginning with offering standard human needs from wellness, combating illiteracy and poverty through to offering knowledge, the dissemination of culture and also the growth of education. It will certainly work in parallel on creating a new generation of young Arab leaders, sustaining governance in the area, as well as providing the biggest incubator for Arab trendsetters, researchers and also scientists.

The main objectives of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives focus on four major industries: Fighting Poverty; Dissemination of Knowledge; Community Empowerment; and also Innovation for the Future.

The Suqia Initiative, will certainly perform study on the UAE's water supply till 2025, in line with HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's vision of resolving all water challenges in the area as one of the nation's top concerns within the following couple of years.

Suqia Research & Development.
Together with DEWA, the Suqia Initiative's study & development tasks consist of reverse osmosis of sea water and a solar desalination plant, along with water purification via solar innovation with the capacity of keeping 7 hours of electrical energy at 50 cubic meters each day, located at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.

The Suqia Initiative's humanitarian jobs.
The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Charity and also Humanitarian Establishment and also the UAE Water Aid Foundation have authorized a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to properly boost their strategic partnership. The MoU improves collaboration between the two sides in helping developing and also needy countries, and also helping with collaboration to apply joint altruistic efforts as well as projects that serve the approaches as well as goals of both organisations. This enhances their social parts within an established framework and also established techniques. The MoU likewise helps both organisations effectively use their prospective and present sources to address water scarcity as well as contamination issues.

After the MoU was signed, the sides collaborated to supply drinking water to individuals in Somalia, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Ghana, Yemen, and Benin for the advantage 60,000 persons, with 10 different tasks.

The UAE Water Aid Foundation lately released a number of campaigns to distribute water to Ramadan outdoors tents and also mosques in cooperation with associations and also charities in the UAE, in addition to offering alleviation help to Yemen in collaboration with the Ministry of Development and also International Cooperation. In the UAE, a number of campaigns were released to disperse water to Ramadan tents as well as mosques in collaboration with 9 local organizations and charities in the UAE.

Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award.
HH Sheikh Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum released the Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award. The effort has alloted USD1 million to discovering sustainable options to assist address water scarcities globally, specifically via the use of solar power for desalination and also filtration procedure. The Innovative Studies & Research prize, is awarded to candidates that added to address water shortages with either a new ingenious modern technology or via a process that makes use of solar modern technology in the desalination and also filtration of water.

For nationwide organizations, applications must be sent by either a UAE national or on behalf of a UAE nationwide instructional or non-profit institution within the UAE. For the Young Innovators prize, candidates have to offer an ingenious technical solution to deal with the concern of water scarcity utilizing solar power.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award recognition campaign.
The Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award was promoted at international events such as COP21 in Paris, the Solar Decathlon in California, the USA, and at the Carbon Ambassador Programme, in Dubai. Suqia UAE additionally arranged a host of activities as well as meetings, to accompany the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly in the USA.

Suqia at COP21 in Paris.
Dubai's latest projects obtained international attention during its current participation in COP21, which ran from the 30 November to 11 December 2015. Greater than 190 countries worked cohesively ahead to a contract, and also to review what was needed to be done up until 2020, to effectively limit environment modification.

Mohammed Abdulkareem Al Shamsi took part in the delegation, which was goinged by HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy & MD & CEO of DEWA.

DEWA's stand, along with the Suqia initiative, received a high degree of interest from groups, and also visitors at the conference's exhibition, info pertaining to DEWA's recent success, was presented on clever technology. The last day of the exhibition saw the participation of HE Ahmed container Amir Humaidi, Qatar's Minister of the Environment, as well as a delegation from The French Ministry of Foreign affairs; a delegation from Energy and also Climate Change department of the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs including HE Dr. Matar Hamed Al Neyadi, Undersecretary for The Ministry of Energy, HE Abbas Ali Al-Naqi, Secretary General. The Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), a regional Arab organization of an international character that concentrates on the events of oil, additionally attended, together with a delegation from Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA), a delegation from the Energy, Mineral Resources, Water and Environment Ministry of Estonia, a delegation from the Moroccan National Office for Electricity and also Water, and also a delegation from the African Climate Resilient Infrastructure Summit (ACRIS), arranged by The African Union. DEWA was welcomed to join the summit by the ACRIS delegation and obtained invitations from various other German, Swiss, as well as Dutch companies.

Solar Decathlon.
Mohammed Abdulkareem Al Shamsi, Acting Executive Director of the UAE Water Aid Foundation, participated in a main delegation goinged by HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy and also MD as well as CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) that saw the United States after getting a main invite from the US Department of Energy to take part in the Solar Decathlon organised by the Department in Irvine, California, from 14-18 October, 2015. DEWA conducted its Dubai-USA Briefing in California in partnership with the National US-Arab Chamber of Commerce (NUSACC), the organisation that advertises and also assists US-Arab business and financial cooperation. The United States Department of Energy (DoE), the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, US Commercial Services, and the US-- UAE Business Council additionally sustained the occasion. Mohammed Abdulkarim Al Shamsi gave a discussion regarding UAE Water Aid. He prompted US firms to join the international USD 1 million prize released by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to locate long-term solutions to the problem of water deficiency around the globe.